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Cooking At Home

Homemade Pizza – Cook At Home Day

February 25, 2009

One of my favorite things to make at home is homemade pizza. I’ve been making this recipe for years now.
Pizza Dough Ingredients:
1 cup warm water
2 teaspoons active dry yeast
2-1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. sugar
Dissolve the yeast in the warm water. Add the remaining ingredients and [...]

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Chicken With Stir Fried Peppers – Cook At Home Day

February 19, 2009

I wanted something quick and easy this past week. I decided on chicken with stir fried peppers. It was a very easy dish to make and was something different from the regular “chicken and rice”.

Ingredients:
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts cut into bite sized pieces
2 tsp Olive oil
1 large green bell pepper [...]

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Pasta Fagioli – Cook At Home Day

February 12, 2009

This is my own version of pasta fagioli. It is not a soup but more like a casserole. My kids love it and I like how easy it is to make. The ditalini pasta makes the dish “different” and fun. If you use all fresh ingredients (i.e. not previously frozen meat) this [...]

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Five Ways to Use Leftover Chicken

February 11, 2009

Baked chicken is one of my favorite meals to prepare for my kids, but the leftovers used to cause me real problems. After all, my family will only let me reheat the same meal so many times before they start threatening to stage a mutiny. The frugal side of me hated to waste [...]

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Pizza Bread – Cook At Home Day

February 5, 2009

For this week’s Cook at Home day, I made a pizza bread. I got the idea from Kate at the “Cooking During Stolen Moments” blog. I just adapted my own recipe from my own pizza recipe. Instead of making the pizza in the regular manner, I used the same ingredients but “rolled [...]

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Homemade Vegetable Soup – Cook At Home Day

January 29, 2009
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Apple Pie Spice Muffins – Cook At Home Day

January 22, 2009

Welcome to the first edition of “Cook At Home Day”, a new weekly feature here on our blog. Today’s recipe is for apple pie spice muffins. I’ve been making these muffins for many years now, and originally got the recipe when cooking for a milk allergic child. Notice that the recipe is dairy [...]

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Cook At Home Day

January 22, 2009

Since I do quite a bit of home cooking, I’ve decided to add a regular weekly feature to this blog starting today with a “Cook At Home Day”. Each week on Thursday I will be featuring a new recipe that I have personally cooked during the prior week. I’ll give you [...]

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50 Chicken Breast Recipes – Cheap Eats With A Quick Fix

January 2, 2009

We eat a lot of chicken in our household. Cooking at home saves quite a bit of money, and chicken breast is versatile because you can make so many different recipes using it. You can usually find a good deal on chicken breast at your local grocery store – $1.99 or less per [...]

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Best Budget Meals for November

October 29, 2008

Trying to come up with budget-friendly meals is a given for any family in a budget. However, November meals have to be more than cost-effective. November meal planning requires you to come up with ideas that battle the cold of winter, nourish your family, and still allow you to stay within your food [...]

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