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This week I cooked the three meals that I received from Blue Apron: Pimento cheeseburgers, roasted pork & cheesy mashed potatoes and chicken with kale and roasted vegetables. For someone who didn't think she like kale, I found it delicious. . Also I was introduced to miso and sushi sauce. I now have some new ideas I can experiment with.

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I found a turkey breast (in the crockpot) recipe on the "recipe tin eats" blog. I've made it before and will this week. The turkey comes out super moist with a nice gravy that you can make. The skin is not crisp unless you put the breast under the broiler but we don't eat the skin anyway. I highly recommend this woman's recipes.

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Happy Thanksgiving to all!

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Len and BakerAunt you were both right on! Krusteaz agreed with Len that the rum would tend to dry out the pumpkin squares' filing so per BakerAunt's suggestion I used 1/2 water and 1/2 spiced rum. The pumpkin pecan pie squares are a hit! Thanks.

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I had ground turkey in the freezer (on sale of course) and decided I had to use it up. In perusing the internet I found a recipe for turkey meatballs on Hidden Valley's site. The clincher was it called for 2T ricotta cheese which I had leftover from the stolen I made. Of course I had to buy the Hidden Valley Ranch powdered dressing. It called for dried cranberries so I used my leftover golden raisins cut up. I served them in a turkey gravy sauce (jar) which I spiced up. I held my breath waiting for my husband"s reaction. "Delicious" he said. So now I have to find a way to use up the rest of the HVR dressing mix.

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Thanks Len, I'll take your advice into consideration.

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I'm always looking for bargains and last year around this time my supermarket had Krusteaz pumpkin pie bar mixes for $.99. Well the "best by date" is pretty much now so I decided to make pumpkin pecan pie squares to take to our friends" house. Therecipe is on Krusteaz's site. The mix calls for 1/2 c water which I'm thinking of replacing with spiced rum but I'm wondering if this would make the filing too sweet. I'm thinking the pecans would tone down the sweetness some. I know it is heresy to use a mix and let me apologize ahead of time. Krusteaz will take three days to reply to my question.

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I defrosted my third rib eye steak that I decided to cook. ( I had to buy 3 to get the discounted price). Anyway the first two I grilled. For some reason they ended up being tough and tougher. So I searched on line and found Alton Brown's seared rib eye recipe. It calls for a cast iron skillet which of course I have (with every other pan in the universe) and a 500* oven. It came out medium rare and sliced across the grain very easily. I recommend this recipe.

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I am baking Potato Sourdough bread. I would like to make the dough into rolls instead of loaves.. I guess that should be a no-brainer.

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I have noticed that when I buy celery at the market it is sometimes bitter and sometimes sweet. I would like to sneak a corner of it before buying but it is not practical. Oh well....

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I took Trader Joe's corn and pepper soup and cooked it down to thicken it. Then I topped it with crushed tortilla chips. I served it with tuna in pita with cheese sandwiches toasted to melt the cheese. I like to add cut up carrot pieces to my tuna along with celery salt and paprika. Ok not exactly a gourmet meal but "pretty good" on a cold autumn evening. I

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We had burgers for dinner. Ok another "my bad" idea that I read and tried. I add a tbls. of corn syrup to a lb. of ground beef and it makes my burgers juicy and tasty. I actually grill about 6 or 8 burgers at a time. I bring the extras to room temperature,bag them in a sandwich baggies and then place those in a larger freezer bag. Then I microwave the burgers from the frozen or defrosted state and they taste almost better than freshly grilled. I can hear all the negatives about corn syrup and plastic baggies.

We also had omelets the other night and instead of water I added a tsp. or so of nonfat sour cream to the uncooked eggs and they came out fluffy and delicious

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I made deli roast beef sandwiches. I bought a 2.6lb top round roast (a BOGO) and baked it for 30 min @500*.I let it rest and then sliced it with my old Krups slicer.

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I made roasted pork tenderloin with apples and onions. There were a couple of recipes to choose from but I chose the recipe using the fennel seeds as I wanted to use up an old jar. Sometimes it doesn't pay to be parsimonious. It was good but I think thyme and rosemary would have been a better choice.

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I guess I'm a heretic because I baked pumpkin muffins from trader joe's pumpkin bread mix. They turned out pretty good.

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