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Sunday, March 24, 2013

LOW-CARB PIZZA CASSEROLE

Using up more eggs - see PREVIOUS POST - I whipped up a pretty nice PIZZA CASSEROLE this afternoon. My photo isn’t wonderful:
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Posted by Earl on 03/24 at 10:33 PM
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SPINACH PIE - WHAT WE CALL “QUICHE” IN THE 21st CENTURY!

.99 ONLY was selling off their eggs with sell-by dates close to the current one….two dozen medium eggs for $.99….so I bought two cartons.

When I got home, I discovered a carton of 18 large eggs in the kitchen refrigerator, and another out in the garage….QUICK! Recipes using lots of eggs.

So….I made SPINACH PIE (shhhhhhhh - it’s basically quiche!). VERY attractive, and the tortilla makes a great crust that’s REALLY easy:
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Posted by Earl on 03/24 at 01:59 PM
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

GREAT POTATOES….for Less

If you search out your local .99 Only, you can buy the potatoes in the photograph for about $3.00 – and that’s a little more than 5 pounds of baby potatoes of three or four colors….Delicious!

The plastic bag they come in has a recipe, which is pretty good as it stands, but we do it a little differently. I buy three bags (you can see the three batches of potatoes in the photograph above, and then use ¼ Cup of olive oil (rather than 6 Tbs according to the recipe), 2 teaspoons of kosher salt, and one teaspoon of freshly ground pepper. If you want something special, use the Rainbow Pepper (Trader Joe’s - - and elsewhere.)
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Once you’ve got the potatoes all stirred up with olive oil, salt and pepper, pour them into a largish baking pan and pop them into a 400 degree oven.
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The bag says to roast them for 15 minutes, but we’ve found that they’re not perfect (to our taste) until after one whole hour…the smell is just (figuratively) divine, and we’ve found that since by this time we KNOW what they’re going to taste like, it’s difficult not to start popping the little ones into our mouth the minute they come out of the oven…but be careful!! 400 degrees is hotter than the lining of your oral cavity prefers!
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Potatoes are VERY good for you, by the way, so enjoy these often.

Posted by Earl on 02/20 at 05:52 PM
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Sunday, December 16, 2012

BACKYARD RENOVATION!

We moved into OUR NEW HOUSE IN CHICO about 18 months ago, and at that time, it had a perfectly ordinary (blah) backyard, consisting mostly of lawn. Looking straight out the back door (before our neighbor back there built his house!):
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then to the left (east):
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and to the right (west):
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Posted by Earl on 12/16 at 10:03 PM
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Thursday, December 13, 2012

APPLESAUCE!

Anyone who knows me knows that I make applesauce pretty much every fall. Back at The Homestead, I used apples we grew ourselves, in the PUC Biology agriculture lab, just outside our door - some years that meant 40 or 50 varieties of apples went into the sauce…..Yum.

When we moved to Tennessee, I had to buy apples from a local orchard, but we put together a blend that was actually very good, indeed.

In Bend , I managed to find neglected apple trees here and there around town, and begged to pick them up in exchange for a quart of the sauce when I got done. That worked fairly well, as there was a wonderful Jonathan, a really delicious Rome, and a tangy crabapple that formed the base of each year’s sauce.

Here in Chico, I’ve made applesauce from PUC apples (the Liberty tree, specifically) but that’s not the usual. I’ve been going to Auburn, where I buy a box or two of their culls, and then pick up (free) apples from under one specific set of trees they set aside for such things. These apples are NOT given away for human consumption, you understand…..our CA legislators neglect the budget and other pressing matters to pass laws protecting me against windfall apples. In fact, I must affirm that I have “livestock” and that I’m getting the windfall apples for my livestock, before I’m permitted to pick them up. So, it’s lucky that Jackie has chickens, who get all of the “frass” from my applesauce machine, in order to meet the letter of the law!

Anyhow, here’s what the apples look like:
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Posted by Earl on 12/13 at 09:31 PM
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012

RED PEPPERS IN APRIL

You’ll remember my earlier post about PEPPERS IN SEPTEMBER, I’m sure!

Whether you do or not, a couple of days ago I was at FOODMAXX and found something even more remarkable!
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Posted by Earl on 04/04 at 11:39 PM
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Friday, March 16, 2012

HOME-MADE PEPPER JELLY (TIMES TWO)

Not too long ago, I bought a jar of pepper jelly on one of my shopping trips. I finished it last week, and I’ve tried to find another jar every since. I can find different iterations, but only at Safeway and Raley’s, and these sell for between $4.00 and $5.00 for not very much, and I can assure you that I did NOT pay that much for the original little bottle.

So, I decided to make my own - yesterday and today I made two different batches…recipes below.

Both started with chopped peppers, and I decided to try the food processor, which worked marvelously:
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Posted by Earl on 03/16 at 12:02 AM
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