Asparagus and Macaroni Salad

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Asparagus and Macaroni Salad is interrupting the regularly scheduled story of Ironman Texas today.  I had another post ready to go but then I went to Food Republic and saw this picture on the site and immediately thought…..I need to repost that and let people know about this recipe. This recipe couldn’t be any easier [...]

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A Taste Of Puerto Rico

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A Taste Of Puerto Rico is a cookbook that my Mom gave me years and years ago.  I think I cracked the spine on that book once.  I felt like I knew how to cook the dishes I wanted, and what I didn’t know Mom knew how to make.  When Karen and I went to [...]

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Quinoa Stir Fry Recipe

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Quinoa stir fry held a place in my heart from around 8am last night until I consumed every last morsel of food.  There was a monkey wrench tossed in there by Karen who called me at 430p to ask me if I wanted pizza to celebrate her last day of work (she starts on Monday [...]

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Grilled Cheese Recipe from The Feed Zone Cookbook

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Grilled cheese on a cold winter’s day with tomato soup.  We all remember that don’t we.  The way the cheese would be so hot that it would burn the roof of your mouth……the way the bread was sometimes burnt because Mom was focused on 100 other things.  The joys of childhood were just incredible.  I [...]

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Polenta Fries and Sausage

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Polenta fries could be my newest addiction.  A quick back story on Polenta.  Karen and I go to a restaurant called Sauce on the Square, located in McKinney, Texas on Valentine’s Day.  They have terrific pizza and one day we noticed polenta with balsamic reduction and mushrooms so we ordered it.  It was beyond delicious [...]

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Vegan Enchiladas Recipe – 100% From Scratch

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As you know I run a feature called the Frugal Grocer and I need to create meals based on what I have in my refrigerator or pantry and nothing else.  I can be found searching the internet for various types of meals and usually go to Food Republic on a daily basis.  From their site Food Republic is [...]

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Frugal Grocer Week #8

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So I am 8 weeks into this and I will say that this week was my first ‘failure’.  I did stay under budget but I did not make a lot of meals this week because I spent 9 hours on Saturday and 9 hours on Sunday a the RRCA course which means that I basically [...]

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Italian Tacos?

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Italian tacos don’t mean mozzarella cheese and marinara sauce.  Use this recipe to create homemade tortillas and an Italian inspired filling.  Before we get into the recipe for the filling I have to say that I have been looking for garbanzo bean flour for a few weeks now but especially since I made these homemade flour [...]

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Frugal Grocer Week #7

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This past week was a tremendous amount of fun.  I went through cookbooks and scoured the internet for recipes and came across some really great breakfast recipes that I’m going to put into a post later this week.  It seemed that every where I turned I found another awesome breakfast recipe and on Saturday I [...]

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Frugal Grocer – Week #6

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Another week has gone by and another very successful week.  I managed to spend only $47 this week on my groceries but I also managed to make homemade eggless ice cream as well as the best loaf of bread I have made yet.  In addition to that I have learned to take the same ‘meal’ [...]

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