Monthly Archives: September 2010
More Make Ahead Meals
I found a fun site with lots of make ahead recipes and have tried several and have a long list of new recipes to try. We loved the biscuits, but I made the mistake of blending the butter into too small pieces and letting the biscuits sit too long before baking. It meant the biscuits had [...]
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Homemade Soft Scrub
In the process of remodeling our kitchen, we had to replace a nearly new oven. It was a wall oven and our new layout used a range. We planned to resell the oven on craigslist, but I knew it would need a good cleaning to get a fair price. Unfortuneately, it was covered with baked [...]
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Homemade Bread Crumbs
I have several recipes that call for bread crumbs–homemade chicken nuggets, baked onion rings, manicotti, and meatloaf to name a few. When I make my own, I save money, but I also know the breadcrumbs are whole grain. It’s a double treat, because my family doesn’t enjoy bread heels (unless they are straight from the [...]
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One Week to Save
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What’s in Your Chimmichanga?
This week, we made Shredded beef sandwiches from the Slow and Savory Cookbook and had leftovers. A few days later I put on a pot of Slow Cooker Refried beans. I also found some hot poblano pepper turkey sausage ($.75 a package, short date sale) in the freezer that needed to be used. Chimmichangas seemed like [...]
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3 Chickens for the Freezer
If I’m going to go through the trouble of roasting a chicken, I decided I might as well roast 3. Hy-Vee had their whole roasters on sale for $.59 a lb a few weeks ago and I snagged 3 and filled my roaster. Once they were cool, I deboned the meat and put some meat [...]
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Meal from Frozen Chicken Strips
I just wanted to show you a photo of a meal you can make when you fill your freezer with marinated, grilled chicken strips. This was torn romain with sliced baby bell peppers. I topped it with the grilled chicken, 2 T of shredded cheese, and a sprinkling of leftover spanish rice. I used salsa [...]
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Carmel Apple Cookies
This soft cookie recipe is a delicious taste of Autumn. I tested this recipe with a spice cake mix (on sale for $.49) , but have a from scratch recipe following that should be great too. Here’s the original as tested: 1 box spice cake mix 1/2 cup rolled oats 1 stick butter, melted 2 [...]
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A ruffled apron
Here’s another quick wedding gift idea for embellishing a purchased apron. I dug through my scraps and cut 3 7.5″ wide strips twice the width of the apron. I hemmed the strips on 4 sides and gathered the top edge. I top stitched the ruffles in place, so that the ends overlapped 1″. This [...]
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