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Homemade Dill Dressing
This homemade dressing is great on salad, but also works well to marinate chicken thighs or drummies. Featuring a creamy texture, bright and vibrant citrus, and the savory notes of dill and chives, this dressing is a humdinger. Best of all, it takes just minutes to prepare; you’ll spend more time gathering the ingredients than…
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Tonight’s Dinner: Zuppa Toscana
Tonight for dinner, we made Zuppa Toscana, a soup featuring spicy Italian sausage, bacon, yellow potatoes, and kale. This soup is hot, spicy, and savory, and is perfect for cool winter nights. To begin, assemble your ingredients. Measure out the broth, chop your veggies, cut up your meat, gather your seasonings. If you want to…
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Cheesecake Followup
I forgot to post photos of our cheesecake from last weekend. Here you go: This thing was a beast. Dense, flavorful…decadent. If you like a good cheesecake, you owe it to yourself to bake this recipe at least once in your life. It puts commercial cheesecakes to shame. And best of all, it’s all ingredients…
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Homemade Tomato Sauce
There’s something special about homemade tomato sauce. Building a sauce from scratch is a lot of fun. Metaphysically, taking a pile of vegetables and turning it into a delicious sauce is a wonderful act of transformation. More concretely, you can convert about $15 of fresh vegetables into food that will actually get eaten instead of…
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Pasta e Fagioli
Pasta e Fagioli is a delicious soup. Rich, earthy, nutritious, and quite satisfying, this is a favorite soup of ours here at Salty Cook central. You can put this soup together several hours before you plan to eat and let it simmer a while to really get those flavors melded together. Ingredients Process I hope…
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Grilled Beef Skewers and Spicy Garlic Sauce
The experience of eating a skewered piece of meat is very human and primal. Meat! On a stick! This meat-on-a-stick recipe features beef marinated in garlic, ginger, soy sauce, sriracha, and honey. Enjoy! Note: this recipe requires a marinating time of at least 30 minutes, and if you are using wooden skewers, at least 30…
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Southwest Street Corn Cobb Salad
This salad is loosely based on a salad served at one of our favorite local cafes. We learned how to make it ourselves so we could have it whenever we want! The street corn salsa and creamy chili-lime dressing add a nice punch to this fresh, healthy, and flavorful salad. Enjoy! Ingredients Creamy Chili lime…
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Why is there corn syrup in my half and half?
in which we discover An unpleasant surprise in our coffee I am something of a coffee hound. My fascination began in my late teens, as I experimented with heavily-sweetened coffee-like beverages. My tastes expanded as I went through technical school and became a respiratory therapist. As a chronic shift worker, I spent years drinking thoroughly…
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