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My local grocery store has Boston pork butts and shoulders on sale at least once a month. And by on sale, I mean well under a dollar a pound so I can get 8 or 9 pounds of meat for something ridiculous like $6. But I kept passing the sales by because I didn’t know [...]

Recently on a forum I belong to, we got into a short discussion about soup base, because someone was asking about making homemade chicken soup. A few months back, here, I posted a recipe for homemade turkey soup, using the leftover turkey carcass. But the truth is, for many of my recipes–and for any recipe [...]

This post was written by Sarah of SmartBitches Last week I mentioned one of my favorite cookbooks, “Saved By Soup,” which I keep for exactly one recipe: Red Bean and Barley Soup. In addition, this recipe is the single reason I own a immersion blender. It’s kind of ridiculous, but I make this soup a [...]

For the next two weeks my weekly menus are going to be…pretty much non-existant. This week, I’m flying out to Toronto tomorrow and won’t be back until o’dark-thirty on Wednesday (which translates to just before midnight). Then, Thursday morning I’m having lasik and, well, I don’t think I’ll be cooking much Thursday. I’m going to [...]

I just realized I was remiss in not posting this here (as I’ve been remiss in not posting here at all, which has really been nagging at me). Starting Monday I’ll be hosting a self-editing workshop on the ESPAN RWA forum. It’s not too late to sign up and the sign up cost is extremely [...]

A few weeks ago I wanted to make chili, and I’m always struggling to find a good chili recipe. I’d seen this one on allrecipes.com before, but for some reason had never used it. If you want to see the original, with comments, you can find it here, but I adapted it to suit my [...]

Last week may have been the first week in a while I followed my weekly menu almost exactly. The only day that didn’t get followed was yesterday (Saturday) because I forgot to factor in (as did my husband when he offered to cook) that he wasn’t going to be home. He went to watch a [...]

It’s been cold here lately. On top of that, I’ve been on the computer a lot and the combination of the two makes my wrists hurt a little more from a small amount of tendinitis. I love wrist warmers/fingerless gloves, though all I have is a cheap acrylic pair and they annoy me because the [...]

I have no idea how many weeks Butter Chicken has appeared on my weekly menu. Nearly every week since I came back from Toronto? But for a variety of reasons, it never worked out for me to make it and I’ve been dying to have it again. Yes, I could have visited one of my [...]