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Texas Caviar

December 31, 2011

We’re on vacation! We’re at the beach with Daisy! We’re being lazy and eating things out of boxes and cans! But it’s still New Year’s Day tomorrow and that means we have to eat black-eyed peas for good luck in the coming year and I figured the easiest way to do that when you’re stuck [...]

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Homemade Cranberry Sauce Is Easy!

November 15, 2011

Cranberries grow in bogs. Bogs are like swamps. I’ve always had a thing for bogs and swamps. Did you know all that? For a while after college, I considered going to graduate school to study either parasitic plants or bogs and swamps. I got my bachelor’s degree in botany and really, with a degree like [...]

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Demon Eyes!

October 11, 2011

Deviled eggs have been around since the dawn of mayonnaise, I believe. They are called “deviled eggs” because they’re a little spicy and the devil probably likes spicy food because he lives in Hell where it’s really, really hot. Devil also is real big into Halloween and so am I so I thought deviled eggs [...]

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How To Make Mashed Potatoes

May 24, 2011

I ate a lot of mashed potatoes as a kid. Not unusual, I am sure. But one thing that was maybe unusual in these Modern Tymes was actually growing the potatoes ourselves. The funnest part was harvesting them. It’s like finding pirate’s booty that you can eat! Working my little fingers into warm earth and [...]

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How To Make Potato Soup

April 19, 2011

I guess it’s the same as potato chowder? I’m not really sure what the difference would be since all potato soup recipes I’ve ever seen have cream or milk in them, which makes them chowders, too. So it seems they are the same thing. But then again, not all chowders have milk or cream. The [...]

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How To Make Guacamole

April 5, 2011

This is my favorite guacamole recipe! It’s great on chips or just on your hands.

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Zucchini Pancakes

March 29, 2011

Here’s a majorly easy recipe for zucchini pancakes with only 4 ingredients! Switch out zucchini for anything else and make vegetable pancakes! Viola! It’s just that easy, my people.

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