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050512 RICE CAKE 6

Recipe Remake – (Leftover) Rice Cakes

This is a riff on Wild Rice Cakes with Bacon from The Best of Cooking Light, 2004.  I searched and found an online version here. I made the original version years ago and loved them so I would highly recommend them but I also use the same technique for any kind of leftover “flavored” rice.  […]

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040812 SWEET POT CASS 8

Easter Sides (Part 1)…Sweet Potato Casserole

This is the second installment of our Frugal Easter Dinner.  You can read the intro and about the Glazed Ham with Pineapple and Cherries here. Sweet Potatoes, in any fashion, rarely, if ever, made a presence on any of our tables, much less a holiday table, when I was growing up.  I have no idea why.  […]

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033112 ORANGE TILAPIA OVER RICE 6

Tilapia with (slightly spicy) Orange-Butter Sauce over Orange Scented Rice Pilaf

“O” is for Orange.  And that’s what this entire meal was based on because we are swimming in oranges right now. Years ago we used to have several local citrus farmers and purchasing citrus from a grocery store was practically unheard of.  We went straight to the grove and got what was picked fresh that […]

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032612 BLUE CHEESE POTATO PANCAKES 11

Potato Pancakes with Blue Cheese and Scallions

This is my spin on a recipe I found on Kayotic Kitchen a few weeks ago and think they would be a really nice dish along side an Easter Ham. Kay used Feta in hers but after reading through some of the comments she said that any cheese should work and even though I had some […]

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011712 RICE 3

Perfectly Cooked Rice, Every Time

My mother made the best rice.  It was always light, fluffy and perfectly tender.  It took me years to figure out how to replicate her rice so stop buying those expensive boil-in bags, sell the rice cooker and get some other awesome kitchen gadget to take its place and let me tell you my secrets. White […]

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