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Thanksgiving Recipe Cornucopia

Earlier in the year, I had a series of posts related to Thanksgiving. After fielding several requests to replay them, I decided to give you a taste of them in one post here with enough time for you to...

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Craving an Un-Blogworthy Sandwich

Since starting the blog, I have found that I no longer make many of my old standby recipes, in favor of ones that would be “blog-worthy”. After seeing my wife order a club sandwich in a restaurant the...

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DICED! A Ranting Chef Competition – Call for Entrants

Calling all cooks: I am announcing the first Ranting Chef cooking competition. In homage to, and in separation from a certain Food Network cooking show, I am announcing a call for entrants to a cooking...

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Fallen Out of the Rotation

It is always fun to flip through your old standby recipes (either electronically through an app like Paprika, or through cards in a box) and see what you haven’t made for a while. Often the thought of...

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Diced! – Maggie – Pastitsio

Today we have an entrant for the second course of the Diced! competition. Contestants were instructed to create or find a recipe for a main dish containing the following ingredients: Ground Turkey,...

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Diced! – Jenna – Juicy Turkey Burgers with Spicy Tzatziki Sauce

Today we have an entrant for the second course of the Diced! competition. Contestants were instructed to create or find a recipe for a main dish containing the following ingredients: Ground Turkey,...

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The Simplest Recipe Yet

This is a new record. I have featured many simple recipes here on the blog, but this has to be the most simple. Two ingredients. Yup. That’s it. The turkey was very moist and tender and surprisingly...

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Gliding Down My Throat

Many of us throw out quite a bit of food that in the somewhat near future we don’t have to. Foods have different viscosities, or the rates that they flow across surfaces. Water or orange juice? It...

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Uncle Al’s Sausage and Peppers Casserole

What do you think of when I say “sausage and peppers”? My first thought goes to pasta. I will routinely fry up some Italian sausage pieces with some peppers and onions and then serve it with pasta and...

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Fallen Off a Cliff

For most of my marriage, my wife did much of the cooking. Early on it was me. When she first stayed home with the kids and later moved into a position where she got out of work well before me, she did...

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Not Just Lunchmeat and Thanksgiving

Growing up, I don’t recall having turkey except in two situations. The first, of course, was a full roast turkey. This was not only every Thanksgiving, but sometimes mid-year as well. The other time,...

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The Charles Barkley of (food) Dunking

I’ve never been much of a basketball player. It is not my favorite sport and my hand-eye coordination tends to favor the small movements of an on-screen move of a video game, rather than the ability to...

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No Squash? Be Ashamed.

I’m so ashamed. I pride my self in my menu planning and in purchasing the ingredients I need for the menu for the week. That way when I come home, I can start cooking. I don’t have to worry about...

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Bob From Accounting in the Schoolyard

Life is full of pecking orders. When you are born, you are in some form of family that likely had some form of pecking order already established. You entry is a disruptive force to that pecking order,...

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Paprikash on Special Today

As I have mentioned in the past, I live in Cleveland, which has a long history of housing immigrants from Eastern Europe. While the Mexican and Chinese food come nowhere close to what I experienced...

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Scrumptious!

In a previous role I provided support to my organization on a national level. This meant quite a bit of travel helping to support new software versions and while many times those installations were...

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Feliz Thanksgiving

What is the best part of Thanksgiving? Getting together with family and friends? No. Cowboys and Lions football? Not in the least. Pumpkin pie? Getting closer. The answer……LEFTOVERS!! While there is...

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Where’s The Beef?

It is amazing how much advertising permeates our lives. It is everywhere. Bad advertising is laughable but when it is good, it not only makes you think positively of a product (or person) but moves you...

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The Surprise Lady Travels

The family car trip. There is something nostalgic about loading the brood into the family-truckster, taking a long road trip and seeing the sights. The reality is much less bucolic. The kids are often...

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Sausage, peppers and pasta

Years ago I threw together a dinner that was so simple, but just worked. It started out easily enough. I had a package of cooked kielbasa, a handful of peppers, an onion and some pasta. I went looking...

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