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What’s For Dinner – 5-Spice Pork Tenderloin
This is another of my Mom’s excellent recipes. It’s the most delicious marinade for pork tenderloin that I’ve encountered yet. Usually, we make it in the oven, but since it’s Memorial Day weekend, the...
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Purple Potatoes
I had to buy them. A coworker and I visited a farmer’s market on our lunch break, and there they sat quietly, piled up in a basket at the far end of the table. Purple potatoes. They were smaller than...
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Purple Mashed Potatoes
As I promised, I’m back to share the results of my mashed purple potato experiment. This batch of purple potatoes was not as purple as the first, so already we’ve got an unexpected variable to contend...
View ArticleA GPS Moment
Since my husband gets home a few hours after I do, I try to have dinner ready, or at least close to ready, around the time he arrives, so we can eat together. The other night, he was a little earlier...
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Basil Turkey Burgers
I haven’t posted a new recipe in a very long time. That’s because I haven’t tried making a new recipe in a very long time. I’ve been cooking most nights, but I’ve stuck to the old comfortable recipes....
View ArticleCranberry and Apricot Pork Chops
This is a variation on a recipe I’ve posted in the past: Cranberry Pork Chops. The reason for the variation is that halfway through making dinner, I discovered I did not have any marmalade left. Oops....
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What’s for Dinner – Garlic Mushrooms
I had more mushrooms than I could reasonably put into a salad, and I didn’t want to go to the trouble of making stuffed mushroom caps, as yummy as those can be. Instead, I made a mushroom side dish...
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Hasselback Potatoes
I dove into my recipe bookmarks this week, because I promised myself and the Internet that I would. I needed a side to go with chicken, and I found a picture of “Hasselback potatoes” on my Pinterest...
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Recipe Bookmarks – Tomatoes done wrong
When it’s summer and tomato season, I always feel like buying up all the big (or little!) red tomatoes I see at the farmers markets. I can only use up so many in salads, though, so I’m always looking...
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Recipe Bookmarks – Tomatoes done right
Ah, that’s more like it. If cooked tomatoes are going to get all soft and squishy, then let’s put them in a pasta dish where that won’t matter! You expect tomatoes to be soft and warm and squishy in a...
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