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We had spaghetti with meat sauce last night. I think tonight I will make chicken salad with grapes and serve it in a rolled tortilla with baked sweet potato fries. It's always fun to see how you can use up your freezer and pantry ingredients when your stay is limited. I feel like I'm a contestant on chopped!

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I finally made the cinnamon banana muffins. I didn't do the "dunk in the butter" step. I did sprinkle tops with a little sugar before baking. I enjoyed them but my husband didn't think they were sweet enough.

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I have two frozen bananas I have to use up. Please let us know how the muffins turned out.

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The place we are staying at has a Friday cocktail party every week. Someone brought some asparagus and brie tartlets from the "dairy goodness" web site. They were yummy. I made appetizer meatballs with a different sauce from the usual jelly and cocktail sauce. The first time I made the sauce I used dried onion flakes. the second time I used fresh onion chopped. I liked the sauce made with the dried onion better. I used Rosina frozen meatballs. This Friday we are celebrating St. Patty's day and I will make old fashion potato salad with hard boiled eggs.

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I signed up for Home Chef meals to try it out and to shake things up in the kitchen. So far the turkey burger with guacamole and roasted sweet potatoes was very good as was the sweet chili pork lettuce wrap. I will make these again. I think you can see the recipes without being a member. I used groupon .

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Well I found TJ’s pizza crust this year in Florida. But alas couldn’t find Dom Pepino’s pizza sauce?. So I ordered 12 cans online! It is supposed to be here today and I’m ready for it but it hasn’t arrived yet so we may have breakfast for dinner. I can’t use 12 cans so i’m Planning on giving several away to people in the building.

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I'll definitely have to go there as we are close by.

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I made spicy orange shrimp as an appetizer to bring to friends' house. The recipe is on facebook by Kevin something. I omitted the cilantro as it is an acquired taste which I have acquired but I didn't know about any one else.

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Not scratch baking but...i had a pkg, of brownie mix and used light olive oil for oil( didn't have anything else) and spread the warm brownies with a squeeze pkg. of Duncan Hines frosting and topped with crushed chocolate peppermint pretzel crisps. Surprise,surprise they were good. The frosting was a freebee from my supermarket. It took all my strength to squeeze the frosting. I don't think it's going to be a winner.

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I sautéed some onions and peppers and chicken tenders with TJ’s simmer sauce. Yo make it my own I sprinkled several of the spices I bagged before leaving home ( in Fl. for 3 mos.) and it turned out HOt Hot HOT. I guess without the labels you don’t know what your getting.

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I have to empty the cupboard and freezer as we get ready to go south. I mixed up some tuna with finely chopped carrots and mayonnaise and put it on 4 large toasted bagel halves. I topped them with sharp provolone and broiled them. I served them with baked French fries (recipe from allrecipes). Pretty good if I do say so myself. BA,you are so good and I am so bad.

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I bought what I thought was a pork tenderloin but it turned out to be a 2lb pork LOIN. I should have known better. I have never seen a 2 lb tenderloin. Anyway I baked the loin (cut it in half)and it was not tender. How do those marinated in a bag loins turn out so well?

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I made a variation of BA's chicken rolled in panko etc recipe. I had some cornmeal crackers which I crushed and used instead of panko and mixed the panko with Mexican grated cheeses instead of the Parmesan. I used the light mayonnaise. Hubby liked and I did too.

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“Fathers please forgive me”. When my cut brownies turned out to be undercooked I stuck them in the microwave for about 2 minutes or so and they turned out ok.

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We had filet mignon, mashed potatoes and green beans for dinner on Thursday. Then we had the leftover steak with omelets and hash browns on Friday. Great time of year to pick up beef tenderloin on sale.

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