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The recipe is from cooksillustrated.com You have to suscribe with a yearly fee to access, so I can’t post the specific recipe here. Cook’s Illustrated is based in Brookline, MA and accepts NO advertising for it’s bi-monthly magazines or it’s website. Along with the Utne …

Yes, this recipe includes the insidious cream of mushroom soup that so many pork chop recipes call for, but it sounds pretty darn good, anyway. I liked the idea of stuffing instead of rice, too. I have a brown bag that I put all my …

Okay, probably not big news to most of the world (those who eat pork, anyway) but what a REALLY inexpensive way to flavor up pea soup when you haven’t recently baked a ham! I used my usual pea soup recipe, except that I pre-cooked the …

I had a smallish zucchini…and tomatoes…. I remembered a really delicious, albeit VERY rich (high fat, etc.) recipe for a summer squash casserole from Frances Moore Lappe’s Recipes for a Small Planet. Well, all it takes is lots of breadcrumbs and a modest amount of …

Thank goodness for this blog. Even if no one else reads it, it gets me to jot down stuff that I would never remember, otherwise. Or, not be able to read my handwritten notes. I had done this before, but had forgotten to write it …

The last time I made a roast beef dinner was when I was in my teens – and it came out great. But, I never got around to trying it again until now. Just not sure of what cut to use – or didn’t want …

Well…. between a recipe from Cook’s Illustrated, a tip my husband learned from his Dad, and one of those meatloaf pans with an insert so the fat drains out that my friend Lori gave me, a last-minute decision to make meatloaf for the first time …

I can’t believe its been more than a month since I last posted! Having a part-time job outside of the home put a damper on my cooking – and writing about cooking. I do, however, have my priorities straight – I just gave my notice …

Well, it is not so bad if you’ve already served a bunch of the ham to company on Easter! But, here it is Wednesday and we are having ham again… This time, I am going to lightly stir fry some green peppers, mushrooms, and brocolli …

The Easter gathering was a success – EXCEPT – if you are going to serve asparagus, plan on 1/2 pound per person when you buy it! We all had a serving, but none leftover! I had only prepared 4 pounds as bought (less, of course, …