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A lovely fall stew to make with either hard cider or the regular tame stuff :-) This makes 4 very hearty servings or 6 medium ones. Since it’s a wonderful OAMC recipe, think about whether to double it so that the time invested is more profitable. This takes a long simmering time to taste its best.

Green and Clean Mom reveals that baby carrots are dipped in bleach to prevent those pesky white spots.  It looks like switching over to full-size carrots might be the way to go. Also at Green and Clean Mom, I found a discussion about paying for trash: how do you pay for it?  If trash pick-up is paid

Noodles, bacon, cheese….what’s not to love? This freezes well, kidls love it, so do husbands and hormonal women…Perfect for a cold day, a bad day, a busy day…or just because.  Vary the cheese for flavor changes, use ham instead of bacon…Use a different type of pasta if you want. Yum.

Here’s a delicious Once A Month Cooking treat for you: jambalaya that you’ll eat with a fork instead of a spoon! You can double, triple, or whatever this recipe to make multiple batches. The recipe below makes enough to feed an average family of four. I like to add something green to the meal on the day it’s served.

  Laissez les bons temps rouler! When you are looking for  quick, easy pasta recipes with some spice this is the one to choose.  Farfalle with Smoked Sausage has all the ingredients for a cozy cajun meal,with just enough spice to make it interesting.

I have such a backlog of recipes and cookbooks that I could probably cook something different, three times a day, all year long, until I died and I would still never have to repeat anything.  I love vintage cookbooks for several reasons, but the main one is practicality.

Pulled pork is quite different from barbeque.  While you can certainly have pork barbeque you just can’t have pulled beef, or pulled chicken! Back in the day, pulled pork was the staple at most southern get togethers.  There would be mountains of pulled pork, buckets of cole slaw, oceans of sweet

One of the best things about summer is the grill…and one of the best things about the grill is….GRILLED CHICKEN! These sandwiches go quickly once the marinating is done. Serve them with freshly fried tortilla chips, some homemade salsa, and plenty of sweet tea.

Once-a-Month Cooking by Mimi Wilson & Mary Beth Lagerborg These two ladies have come up with a wonderfully simple system to take you step-by-step through the OAMC process. My major problem with their specific way of doing OAMC is that many of their recipes are not actually cooked and frozen…so it ends up being more like once-a-month preparation.

I’ve been told that Once-a-Month Cooking is a great way to save  money.  The idea is you make 30 days of meals all at once and freeze them.  That way  you save time by cooking in bulk, and money because you plan your meals around  what is on sale and you won’t feel inclined to [...]