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Mexican Stacked Lasagna

September 21, 2012
Sometimes, we are so cramped for time and often, if you are like me, you do not want a huge clean-up after dinner.  Cooler days are here and I don’t mind turning on the oven.  Another easy, family favorite is my Mexican stacked lasagna.  My kids think it is delicious and I am happy to…

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Canning Pickles and Kimchi

September 12, 2012
 I had a “pickle” of a time finding canning jars.  I drove to at least three different stores here on Cape Cod without any luck.  Finally, on the fourth store I had luck except they only had smaller pint size jars instead of the quart size that I was needed.  So, I picked those up…

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Crock Pot Ratatouille

September 2, 2012
Yesterday, we decided to go apple picking.  Since we had a bunch of squash, eggplants and tomatoes, it seemed like an easy solution to dinner to make our crock pot ratatouille.  This is a very easy satisfying recipe.  When completely cooked it is like a vegetable stew.  We serve it over rice or pasta with crusty bread.…

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Tomato and Cucumber Relish

August 14, 2012
Arugula dressed with relish and feta cheese If you are like us, you now have an abundance of cucumbers and tomatoes from your garden. One thing that I like to do is make this relish.  It is so quick to make, versatile and delicious.  We use the relish in many ways including: As a side…

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Fully Loaded Baked Potato Soup

July 2, 2012
I love baked potatoes. One of my favorite dinners is having a baked potato party. Everyone starts with a blank canvas, their potato, and goes down the assembly line and adds as many or as few toppings as they desire. This is a complete win win situation for all family members, finally a meal we…

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Chicken Potstickers

April 27, 2012
When I lived in Southern California, I become close friends with many wonderful people of Asian decent. Tradition and family go hand in hand in their culture.  Often, I would visit one of my Chinese friends and find their entire family sitting at the kitchen table on a Saturday afternoon making dumplings.  The Grandma, Auntie,…

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Simple Egg Salad

April 11, 2012
A favorite treat following the week of Easter is a good egg salad sandwich.  Like you, we have an abundance of colored hard boiled eggs and this is an easy way to use some of them up.  The ingredients are quite simple and can be made in a pinch.  I think the secret that makes…

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Easter Cake

April 6, 2012
Each year, the kids and I look forward to baking for Easter. Last year, we made cupcakes with Peeps sitting in nests filled with candy eggs. This year, I have seen so many variations of cakes with pastel colored M & Ms and an assortment of Peeps marshmallow candy on Pinterest and Facebook, that this was on my…

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