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Simple Mango-Mint Lassi

My garden is growing beautifully, and I just love to eat out of it! The weather is perfect for cultivation, and since we live in a tropical state, most of the plants we grow are "heat resistant" (like my Solar Flare tomatoes!). The cactus...

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Beef Soup with Soba

Soba, or buckwheat, is a type of thin Japanese noodle.  Udon, on the other hand, are thick wheat noodles. Truth be told, I haven't the vaguest idea what buckwheat was until I started playing the game Harvest Moon. Actually, I learned...

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Chicken-Macaroni Salad

This is one of those recipes that came about due to some left-overs that I didn't want to throw away. We bought a whole rotisserie chicken one afternoon, and we had a ton of extra! So the next best thing was to make another meal out of it...

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Hear that, dogs?

Apparently, you are not allowed to bark in the fire lane. (Seen at the parking lot of a local grocery store...

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The Lady's Cheesy Mac

Fresh off the oven! Hubby requested for Macaroni and Cheese one day, but he had something specific in mind - he said he wanted "very cheesy" mac and cheese. I thought I'd copy Paula Deen's recipe (the queen of Southern cooking, who else?)...

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Pancit Canton 2

As always, whenever I take a peek inside my pantry, I find something buried or long forgotten - case in point, the pack of noodles that has been sitting there since who knows when. I did the "expiration test" to determine if it was still...

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Ducks on a Tree

Ducks on a tree. Preposterous!  The first time hubby told me he saw ducks on our tree, I just dismissed it and thought he might have seen a bird that resembles a duck. After all, ducks on a tree sounded ridiculous, right? (Sort of like...

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Blueberry Crumb Bars

  I brought this treat to school a few weeks ago, and I kid you not, they were gone in a flash!  The kids have this smile on their faces, sort of like the pudding face we see in ads. Thanks to my friend who went blueberry-picking...

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Hannah's Slow Cooked BBQ

One of the perks of being an educator is having "mommy-friends" that are so generous and shares with you all most of their culinary secrets. Before the schoolyear ended, our class moms gave us a collection of their families' favorite recipes,...

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