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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I like to try to trim the grocery bill by including vegetarian and vegan meals into the menu.  This is one of my favorite fall meals, and with fall right around the corner, I thought I’d get a batch in the freezer ready to go.  This is a hearty, meat free meal that can satisfy [...]

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I am blessed that HandyMan will eat almost anything and doesn’t mind leftovers at all.  Often at the end of a meal, I will plate up the leftover in lunch size containers that can be easily grabbed out of the fridge on his way to work.  Sometimes though, I’ve planned the excess for a second [...]

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