City Chicken

My City Chicken is actually pork cut into cubes, speared onto skewers, covered in a light coating, browned and baked in condensed soup in the oven. According to Wikipedia, City Chicken typically has cooks using meat scraps to fashion a makeshift drumstick from them. During the Depression, cooks used pork or in some cases veal because it was then cheaper […]

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Cinnamon Toasted English Muffins

English Muffins slathered in a cinnamon sugar butter then toasted to a crunchy golden brown that tastes delicious. This is a great way to use up English Muffins that aren’t quite as fresh as you would like. Source: Ree Drummond Melt the butter. Add the cinnamon and sugar to the butter stirring until dissolved. Slice four English Muffins and place […]

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Double Chocolate Chip Muffins

Chocolate muffins filled with milk chocolate chips is our new favorite muffin! These are the best tasting muffins we have ever had. These could be used as a dessert, they are that good. Adapted from: The Busy Baker Using cupcake paper liners, line the cupcake pan. I filled 19 paper liners with batter. If you have a larger muffin pan […]

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Fresh Fruit Wash Solution

Using this Homemade Fresh Fruit Wash Solution is a great way to help in killing bacteria, mold spores and to wash away any leftover chemicals or pesticides. This will also help to keep the fruit fresh longer. If you buy organic your fruit may not have any pesticides or chemicals, but it can still have unwanted mold spores or bacteria. […]

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Easter Stove Top Bird Nest Cookies

Chow Mein Noodles, milk chocolate and peanut butter dropped into a bird’s nest shape and topped with candy eggs makes this the perfect cookie for Easter. The crunchy chow mein noodles with the sweetness of the chocolate and peanut butter flavor was SO GOOD! Adapted from: http://www.TheFrugalGirls.com Cut a large sheet of parchment paper for your counter. Pour the chow […]

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Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Our grocery store had 3 quarts of strawberries for $5.00 this week and I couldn’t pass them up. I had rhubarb from our garden already in my freezer. It is cold outside and we have 8 inches of snow already and we are expecting more, so this is what I did with my snow day today, I made pie! To […]

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Blueberry Loaf Cake

This Blueberry Loaf Cake is golden on the outside, moist on the inside and topped with cinnamon sugar. This is not a bread but cake and such a nice change from other blueberry recipes. To see my step by step directions with pictures and a printable recipe card click HERE. http://www.InDianesKitchen.com

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