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Oven Risotto

November 9, 2009

My family loves risotto. I have made it many times on the stove top, but it is time consuming and it is not something you can walk away from. You have to watch it constantly, because of this I rarely made risotto That was until several years ago when I saw an oven version of [...]

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Creamy Black Bean Quesadillas

August 24, 2009

I love cooking magazines. I love to look through them to not only find new recipes, but to find new ideas and techniques to incorporate into my cooking. The other day I was looking through the newest issue of Paula Deen’s magazine, by the way I love her magazine, and I saw a recipe for quesadillas [...]

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Tomato Pie

July 27, 2009

I have been picking a lot of tomatoes from my garden. My husband and all three kids love tomatoes. We slice them and they eat them with salt and pepper. We have been eating them a lot like this. But I have also been making things with them like my bruschetta, my simple summer salad, [...]

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Simple and Healthy Summer Supper

July 13, 2009

This is based on a recipe that my sister and I learned to make in the cooking class we took. It was my favorite dish that we made. I think it was also one of my sister’s favorite. Not only was it good, but it was easy. Right now we have a lot of ripe tomatoes [...]

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Meatless Meals

April 23, 2009

Meatless meals are a great way to cut down on your grocery budget. I love meatless meals. I try to serve at least one meatless meal a week. I would serve more, but my husband prefers meat for dinner. But at times when our budget was really tight meat was one of the first things [...]

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Homemade Refried Beans

February 26, 2009

We like Mexican food in our house. We enjoy having homemade beans when we do this. I have had this post partially done for awhile now, but I finally got it finished. There are a lot of ways to make homemade refried beans. If you search the internet you will find a lot of different [...]

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Spinach Minestrone

January 23, 2009

We love soup in the winter time. It is so nice to have a warm bowl of soup on a cold winter day. I try to make soup once a week during the winter. This recipe is a favorite one. It is quick, easy, healthy, and frugal. You could add some sausage to this to [...]

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Paula Deen’s Mac and Cheese

January 22, 2009

Life As Mom is having a comfort foods recipe swap. She posted about her favorite Macaroni and Cheese. That got me thinking about my favorite Mac and Cheese, and no it is not come in a blue box by Kraft. In fact my kids are so spoiled with home made food they do not liked [...]

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Gazpacho

August 3, 2008

I finally have a healthy recipe to post. We have a lot of tomatoes and cucumbers from our garden so I am trying to find ways of using them all up. Last week I made gazpacho. I have had gazpacho before but have never made it myself. I guess I always thought it was hard. [...]