Updated August 19, 2010:  If you’re joining me from Life As Mom’s Ultimate Recipe Swap, welcome!  My broccoli didn’t give enough this year to freeze, but all the little bits ended up in yummy fried rice, along with all the other garden bits that weren’t quite enough to freeze up!
I love Chinese food, but it [...]

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As promised, here are my directions for how I made calzones during my Italian Cooking Day.
First, I used this crust recipe.  I was able to divide out the dough for 8 good sized calzones.  I rolled out each section of  dough into a circle.  Be careful not to roll it  too thin or your fillings [...]

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Remember when I posted my Italian cooking day and promised the Lasagna Recipe and Calzone instruction– well, I finally got my act together and here they are.  We’ll start with the Lasagna.  This recipe made 1-11×17 pan and 2-8×8 pans.  Scale back if you’re only cooking for one meal.  If you’re on a vegetarian track, [...]

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This week my big cooking project was Chicken.  It was my goal to have cooked chicken, broth and Chicken Pot Pie filling for the freezer.  After giving my Crock Pot and stock pot good workouts, my missions were accomplished!
I’ve been following Kate at Kitchen Stewardship and decided to follow her instructions for making broth.  I [...]

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When I was making my January menu I wanted to try to use up some of the things that have found a semi-permanent home in my freezer because they’re things that I’m not particularly fond of.  One such thing was a 2 pound hunk of corned beef brisket.  I saw “beef brisket” and missed the [...]

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On Thursday afternoon I realized that I had planned on stretching my monthly menu meals a little too thinly this week.  It was a crazy week and I had planned on surfing through the nutty weekend on leftovers, but I hadn’t quite planned enough meals to make that work.  Oops, monthly menu fail!
Looking to remedy [...]

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This week I put the MamaMixer pasta rollers to work.  Our Christmas plans are in a semi-fluid state, sort of like a really good molten chocolate cake – but I digress.  So it ends up that we’ll have family at our place for Christmas, for which I’m thrilled.  In a moment overtaken by a craving, [...]

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My batch meal of the week last week was Shepherd’s Pies.  Generally Shepherd’s pies consist of some combination of ground beef, vegetables and mashed potatoes, this recipe follows the basic formula with a few adjustments.
I doctored up the Shepherd’s Pies and topped off the beef and veggies with Garlic Cheddar Smashers.  I also used TVP [...]

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Tonight I have about 8 pounds of beef brisket in my crock-pot.  Tomorrow morning, I will have a crock-pot full of falling apart ready to  use shredded beef.  First a bit about brisket.  *This is NOT corned beef brisket.  This is just a plain beef brisket.  I have purchased briskets that were a wonderful cut [...]

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When I visit my folks, or they visit us,  Dad and I like to embark on culinary adventures.  In the past, these journeys have included Mediterranean feasts and homemade raviolis.  Tonight we went on a pseudo-Thai adventure.  Inspired by a Pad Thai Throwdown we used the directions and methods from the recipe given but cheated and used [...]

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