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How to Cook Brown Rice with Lentils: Cupboard Cooking
Feb01

How to Cook Brown Rice with Lentils: Cupboard Cooking

Posted By on Feb 1, 2011 in Cooking Tips & Tricks, How To Cook, Rice Recipes, Side Dishes | 0 comments

Today is Day 3 of our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike.  This is what I made as a side dish for tonight’s dinner using my “cupboard cooking” strategies. This went with my Coconut Crusted Baked Salmon and peas with toasted coconut. The reason I combined the lentils with the brown rice is to make a complete protein. It’s very difficult to get my mother to eat meat of any kind. She just doesn’t feel like it much. So,...

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How to Cook Cilantro & Lime Tuna Melts: Cupboard Cooking
Feb01

How to Cook Cilantro & Lime Tuna Melts: Cupboard Cooking

Posted By on Feb 1, 2011 in Cilantro, Citrus, Herbs, Limes | 0 comments

Today is Day 3 of our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike.  This is what I made for lunch today using my “cupboard cooking” strategies. I love tuna melts, but wanted to kick it up with an exotic flare…Enter: cilantro & lime! Instead of making grilled cheese sandwiches, I decided to make a tuna melt open-face sandwich. You make a basic tuna salad kicked up with cilantro & lime and get it into the oven… You...

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How to Cook Impromptu Linguine with Meatballs: Cupboard Cooking
Jan31

How to Cook Impromptu Linguine with Meatballs: Cupboard Cooking

Posted By on Jan 31, 2011 in Featured, Main Dishes | 0 comments

This is one of the meals we created during our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike! We had everything in the house already, except onions, which is fresh produce we are allowed to use in this challenge. It was delicious, nutritious and helped us clean out our pantry cupboards! Try it – it’s easy to cook too. Type: Pasta Recipe Serve with: Garlic Bread, if desired and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese Prep time: 5-10 min Cook...

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How Cell Phones Help You Cook

Posted By on Jan 19, 2009 in Cooking Tips & Tricks | 1 comment

I know you’re thinking…”What? How in the world can cell phones help me cook?” Think Back: How many times have you or a member of the family “forgotten” something crucial to dinner or making lunches when they got home from the grocery store? How many times have you said…Uhhh, I forgot the flour, or the sugar, or the milk, or the dish detergent? I know I have, my hubby has, my mom...

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All Shopping Carts Are Not Created Equally

Posted By on Sep 9, 2007 in Great Cooking Products, How To Cook | 1 comment

gone to the grocery store, chose your shopping cart out and within about 10 seconds from go, you wanted to take it back? Either it was wobbly, pulling to one side, or one wheel just would not turn? … Or do you just suffer through the annoyance because you figure they’re all alike? Well, all shopping carts are not created equally, and that goes for ecommerce software as well. If you are starting your own cooking website and...

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