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Flanken-Cut Beef Ribs in the Pressure Cooker

My old, trusty Multi Pot died in December, just in time for me to get this beauty as a kinda cool replacement. It is, as a friend terms it, “kinda spendy,” but it also takes care of locking the machine … Continue reading

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Roasted Sweet Potato With Tamari and Ginger

A looong time ago, I had a pretty memorable lunch in the Napa Valley. It was rabbit in a black bean sauce and sweet potato marinated in Tamari and ginger, then grilled. This sweet potato is peeled, cubed, and roasted, … Continue reading

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Creamy Garlic Salad Dressing and Sauce

A new fave around here, this garlic dressing will liven up your salads, but it also makes a wicked tasty sauce, added directly to meats, or even stirred into sauces. It also happens to make a pretty spiffy pizza topping, … Continue reading

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Garlic Balsamic Grape Tomatoes

I needed some tomatoes, and the market had this buy one, get one free deal going on, so I did. except… I really did not need that many tomatoes. Happily, I came across this recipe on, I think, allrecipes.com, and … Continue reading

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Chomorro-Style Chicken

A friend had posted an old picture of friends enjoying the local barbecued chicken back when they lived on Guam and well… it looked really good. So, I did some research and found a recipe from someone born and raised … Continue reading

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Iberian Tomato Sauce

Check out this sauce! It comes together in next to no time, and, trust me on this, even if you do not care for Spanish olives, I think that you will be pretty darned in favor of them in this … Continue reading

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Ciao! Picollo

For my final canning project of this holidaze season, I set about making what I call Ciao! Picollo, which is a mélange of pickled cauliflower, cabbage, bell peppers, jalapeños, onion, and garlic. It also just so happens to be pretty … Continue reading

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Peach Salsa

Decades ago, now, a coworker showed up at the office on a December Monday morning with a recipe he had been given by a little old lady he had run into at some holidaze fair or other. The recipe was … Continue reading

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Spicy Tomato Sauce

So, yeh, I realize that cod is not the first thing that springs to mind when one talks about tomato sauce, but it really does work a treat with this sauce, and… while I am at it, this zippy little … Continue reading

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American Chop Suey

When this showed up in my email, it was called something like “Cafeteria Casserole,” because it was reminiscent of an old school lunch recipe. When I actually started to put it together, I thought it seemed much more like what … Continue reading

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