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How to Pan Sear Meat

Oddly enough, for as long as I’ve been cooking, I had never experienced the magic of pan searing meat until a few years ago. My first experience pan searing was chicken with fresh garlic, rosemary and thyme. It was so simple, so quick and yet so moist and delicious. The magic […]

Cheesy Bread

Ingredients:

½ batch Bread dough (make the whole batch, use half and freeze the other half for next time or make a double batch of garlic bread) 2tb salted butter, soft 2 garlic cloves, minced ¼ c parmesan cheese ¼ c mozzarella

Method:

Turn a cookie sheet upside down and place a […]

All purpose white bread

I have one tried and true white bread recipe that I call on for all of our holiday baking, calzones, pizza crusts, cheesy bread, bread rolls and sticks, and sandwich bread. As I think of them, I will list the different applications you can use this bread for, and the baking instructions. But it all […]

Almond Chicken (ABC Chicken)

This dish comes with a couple names. Either Almond Chicken or Almond Boneless Chicken or ABC Chicken. It is commonly found in Michigan Chinese restaurants and features a thin chicken breast battered, fried, and served on a bed of lettuce with a brown colored gravy accompanying it. It is supposedly not an […]

How to deglaze (and why you want to)

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Salisbury Steak

Normally I make a roux based gravy for our basic salisbury steak, but I decided to step outside the box and try something new. This was well received by all and I made mashed potatoes to side with it as well.

Ingredients – meat:

2lbs ground beef 1/2 c seasoned breadcrumbs 1tb […]

Breakfast Sausage

It is entirely possibly to make your own bulk breakfast sausage that you can then form into patties or brown and crumble into recipes.

Ingredients:

2lb ground pork, at least 20% fat. 1tb ground sage 2ts marjoram 2ts thyme 2ts red pepper flakes, optional ½ ts brown sugar ½ ts salt ½ ts pepper

Method:

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Italian Seasoning

Italian Seasoning

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons each:

Basil Oregano Ground Rosemary Marjoram Cilantro Thyme Savory (optional)

Method:

Combine and used when called for in recipes.

Crockpot baked beans

Forget about watching pots for hours to prevent burning, make your baked beans in a crockpot and let them cook all day until dinner! Delicious beans that are filling and satisfying.

Ingredients:

1lb dry beans, great white northern 1lb bacon 1 onion, minced ¼ c tomato paste ½ c brown sugar ¼ c molasses Vegetable […]

Tomato Soup

This closely mimics the taste of a certain storebought canned tomato sauce that many people grow up eating. Sometimes I just crave a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup with macaroni. I am not pleased with the ingredients in the canned soups and this isn’t too hard to whip up on my own.

Ingredients:

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