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How to Cook More in Less Time in 7 Easy Steps

February 18, 2015 By Food Retro

Some people believe that eating food prepared from scratch and having a full time job are mutually exclusive… or a recipe for exhaustion. It’s not true. I know this, because I’ve had that 9-5 job, a kid who required a lot of scratch food, and a commute. The secret, as anyone who has ever been in…

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Filed Under: Frugal & Eco Things, SLIDER, The Urban Homestead, Tips & Tricks Tagged With: leftovers, sponsored, The Urban Homestead

Balsamic Chicken with Grains and Greens

June 16, 2014 By Food Retro

I have an addiction to collecting cookbooks, which is weird, cause I so seldom use them. I might flip through them and get some ideas, but usually a recipe gets modified on paper before I ever put it to the stove. I don’t like using convenience foods that are full of junk ingredients, and it…

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Filed Under: Kitchen Chemistry, Meals, SLIDER Tagged With: dairy free, egg free, high fiber, Kitchen Chemistry, leftovers, no refined sugar, nut free, peanut free

Making Stock From a Bird Carcass

April 21, 2014 By Food Retro

I almost always walk home with the bird carcass from any family gathering. Nobody ever fights me for it because nobody knows how to make delicious soup from it. Or they can’t be bothered. Their loss! It makes me giddy because I love soup, and I’d rather have the soup than huge chunks of leftover…

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Filed Under: Frugal & Eco Things, Homemade Pantry, Kitchen Chemistry, SLIDER, Tips & Tricks Tagged With: budget, dairy free, egg free, Health & Home, leftovers, low glycemic, main course, no refined sugar, nut free, peanut free, soy free

Pot Roast

June 8, 2013 By Food Retro

A true pot roast begins as a densely muscled and tough cut of meat.  This means it usually comes from the chuck, round or rump.  Some diagrams lump “rump” and “round” together, so if you can’t find the rump on a butchering diagram, rest assured, it’s exactly where it sounds like it belongs. I grew up…

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Filed Under: Kitchen Chemistry, Meals Tagged With: beef, Kitchen Chemistry, leftovers, main course, slow cooker

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