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Pear and Walnut SaladAn easy-does it salad perfect for fresh pear season! Low calorie, low fat, and a nice luncheon salad alternative. |
1 vote
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Zucchini Chocolate Cake - Solar Baked! with conventional oven optionOne of my absolute favorites and most requested cake recipes is this yummy chocolate cake. Couldn't wait til summer's over to turn the oven on indoors, so I just heated up the solar oven outside! What I especially like is the self-frosting the mini-… |
2 votes
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Solar-Baked Banana BreadToo hot to bake nut breads? Get the solar cooker out and keep your cool! Just about anything you bake in the conventional oven has a complimentary solar-cooking method. This is my best banana bread recipe and when it’s cooler this fall I’ll post the same recipe baked conventionally. But here using only El Sol for the cooking energy,… |
1 vote
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Poached PearsA favorite fall dessert or breakfast fruit when pears are in season. This is a Better Homes and Garden Cookbook recipe, and the only liberty I take at times is to replace part or all of the sugar with Splenda (depending on guests and their diet requirements.) I often double the recipe (and 4 x the poaching liquid) and store pears in… |
1 vote
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Pork and Shrimp Pot StickersThis is my version of a really delicious fried dumpling. I have found many recipes for pot stickers over the years, and it seems that no two are alike. I have made adaptations according to what I have on hand and what I like. Also, I use my handy dandy dumpling folder-upper-thingy that I have pictured here. It cost me 50 cents at a… |
2 votes
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Best Blueberry Bread Pudding with Lemoncello SauceThis is cooking school 101. Easy - and impressive, which takes it to graduate school! Besides, I also have blueberries to use before this year's crop begins to fruit out. The end result is every bit as delicious as the photo appears. |
2 votes
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Texas Chuck Wagon Pinto BeansThis dish is all about FLAVOR. San Antonio and Ft. Worth are my two favorite places to be when in Texas. This recipe was inspired by some dining experiences there and, to my palate, is as Texas as bluebonnets in Spring. Sweet and spicy, richly textured, these beans cry out for anything BBQ'd, grilled or broiled. Corn on the cob,… |
6 votes
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Kitchen Tools, Gear & Gizmos
This group is a place to share photos of useful kitchen and cooking tools, gear & gismos that make your life as a cook a little easier and your time more productive.
Feel free to add a photo or two and an explanation or idea for the things that work best for you , whether you're a pro or a novice - we all need the tools to do the job right!
If you have a favorite recipe on C-E-S that employed your favorite tool, by all means post that recipe here when you upload the photo of that tool! !
Feel free to add a photo or two and an explanation or idea for the things that work best for you , whether you're a pro or a novice - we all need the tools to do the job right!
If you have a favorite recipe on C-E-S that employed your favorite tool, by all means post that recipe here when you upload the photo of that tool! !
