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Garlic Pasta Sauce
My family loves all kinds of white sauces such as Alfredo and they love anything with garlic. I make Alfredo quite often, but unless I plan ahead, I rarely have heavy cream. There were many times that I wanted to make Alfredo but didn’t have the heavy cream or Parmesan cheese, so I figured out a way to make a white garlic sauce that they love that doesn’t require heavy cream or Parmesan. I never make it exactly the same way and it can be very flexible to accommodate your likes or dislikes. I start by melting butter in a large non-stick skillet and sauteing garlic, onions and sometimes mushrooms.…
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Meal Planning – My Way
I have said it before. I am not good about meal planning. Our life is crazy most of the time. I rarely know if we are going to be home for supper or at least how many are going to be home. I have tried to plan out meals, but it usually doesn’t work out. I like to have easy meals that I can throw together quickly, that is just what works for our family, but I still like to cook fairly wholesome meals out of real food when possible. I have a few tricks that help me with this. I buy ground meat in the larger amounts and prepare…
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Pull-Apart Garlic Bread
I didn’t lay out anything for supper tonight, so about 4:45 pm I went to see what I had in the freezer. I had a small family size lasagna so I grabbed it and put it in the oven. It had to cook for 60 minutes, so while it was cooking, I helped my daughter with her homework and then got everything ready for the rest of the meal. I don’t like lasagna, so I cooked a package of spaghetti and made sauce for me and my daughter. I didn’t have any lettuce for a salad, so I was trying to figure out what else to cook. I decided…
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Can Baked Chicken be Juicy?
I don’t like to fry foods very often. Not only is it less healthy, but it makes a big mess in my kitchen. The problem with this is that my husband loves fried food especially fried chicken. I have tried cooking chicken in all sorts of ways over the years, but he really never liked them all that much. Another problem is that he likes dark meat and I like white meat, so over the last few years I have been experimenting with different chicken recipes for thighs and legs and I would just throw a breast in for me. Some would be okay but nothing he really liked much…
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