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Archive for September, 2011

Smothered Chicken

  8 skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs $6.64 1 cup flour, plus 3 tablespoons $0.17 3 tablespoons olive oil $0.18 Salt and pepper $0.01 1 cup white wine $3.57 3 stalks celery, diced $0.39 3 large carrots, diced $0.51 1 onion, diced $0.47 4 tablespoons fresh thyme $1.07 4 tablespoons fresh rosemary $1.28 1 bay leaf [...]

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Smothered Chicken: Review

It took me years to find a good Smothered Chicken recipe. I looked through cookbook after cookbook and website after website. Turns out, to make a really great Smothered Chicken, I just had to come up with my own recipe. And this one’s pretty darned good, if I do say so myself! Remember to keep [...]

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Poisoned Blackberry Cocktail

  1.5 ounce vodka $1.41 3/4 cup 7-Up $0.21 1/4 cup blackberries, slightly mashed, reserving a few whole    $0.62 Several ice cubes Total Cost    $2.24 1.) Place ingredients into cocktail glass in the following order: ice cubes, slightly mashed blackberries, vodka, and 7-Up. Top with whole blackberries. 2.) Serve and enjoy! Read the [...]

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Poisoned Blackberry Cocktail: Review

What better way to celebrate Poisoned Blackberry Day than with a cocktail that shows off how the blackberry can be both sweet and deliciously tart all at the same time? So raise your glasses for a toast to the poisoned blackberry! “My berries cluster black and thick For rich and poor alike to pick. I’ll [...]

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Beware of Poisoned Blackberries!

It’s Poisoned Blackberry day! We are celebrating this day around my house with – guess what? Lots and lots of blackberries! I am lucky enough to have a grandmother that has bushes and bushes of blackberries every single year. And every single year, I’ve just unloaded all the blackberries out of my freezer when it’s [...]

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Peach Pancakes

For the pancakes: 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour $0.33 1 tablespoon baking powder $0.15 1 teaspoon salt $0.01 1 tablespoon white sugar $0.01 1 1/4 cups milk $0.34 1 egg $0.17 3 tablespoons butter, melted $0.18 2 tablespoons vegetable oil $0.14 For the peach topping: 2 cups peaches, sliced $1.65 4 cups white sugar $0.76 [...]

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Peach Pancakes: Review

It’s National Pancake Day, and I’m celebrating with one of my girls’ favourite ways to enjoy pancakes – with yummy, sweet, delicious peach topping! There are actually a number of different pancake holidays. IHOP holds March 1 as their International Pancake Day, and Fat Tuesday is usually the “pancake holiday” that people generally think of. [...]

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