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Thursdays Are For Cooking….

| February 14, 2019 | 19 Comments
Thursdays Are For Cooking….

This dish is for cold winter days and nights, particularly enticing after you’ve been out shoveling snow and want something hot and tasty waiting for you. It’s a slow cooker recipe, which means you set it up, go shovel snow and more snow, and then go back into that warm, cozy house and sniff the […]

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Thursdays are for cooking….

| February 7, 2019 | 12 Comments
Thursdays are for cooking….

MEATLOAF –  (No, not the singer!) This is supposed to be the recipe for Cracker Barrel’s meatloaf, which is quite good. When I had that, it also had chunks of chopped tomato in the mix, so how you go about making this is up to you. Just get the best ingredients, as always, and have […]

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Thursdays Are For Cooking….

| January 31, 2019 | 14 Comments
Thursdays Are For Cooking….

As always, when cold weather sets in, some kind of hearty, filling dish is what you want when you sit down for lunch or dinner. This is one I’d call a fall-back, because you can make it very quickly with leftover chicken, including the chicken from that bucket you got at KFC. Just peel the […]

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Where have all the fiscal conservatives gone..

| January 30, 2019 | 20 Comments
Where have all the fiscal conservatives gone..

..or why are we spending so much on an endless war without goals? More from VoV: For a long time it’s become clear the fiscal conservatives like the classic liberals have become the unicorns of their respective political parties. These days neither party is interested in reducing the cost of government and neither side has […]

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Ice is On!!!!

| January 26, 2019 | 46 Comments
Ice is On!!!!

Ice fishing season really begins with the first freeze of the season, regardless of the calendar dates. If there is a pond with an ice sheet on it, there will be some benighted soul out there on blades drilling a hole to measure the thickness. The local paper was kind enough to provide a scale […]

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Thursdays Are For Cooking….

| January 24, 2019 | 22 Comments
Thursdays Are For Cooking….

Since the temps outside are dragging their heels and even the birds are in hiding, it is the kind of weather where you want to stay indoors and contemplate the wonders of the Universe while your dinner is stewing away in the crock pot.  There is nothing better when you come into the house, after […]

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Life’s Tough in My Neighborhood

| January 19, 2019 | 77 Comments
Life’s Tough in My Neighborhood

IMG_1921 IMG_1921 First, let me say that I have to shovel snow today, whether I like it or not. If the “climate” is warming up, how come there are six inches of snow on my front steps? And how come the neighbors were out at 7AM with the snowblowers and other noisy things, rousing me […]

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Thursdays Are For Cooking

| January 17, 2019 | 17 Comments
Thursdays Are For Cooking

This week’s effort is for those days when the wind is howling outside around the eaves of the house, and snow blows right into your face when you’re shoveling the sidewalk or front steps. Also, since Aysel likes to use the slow cooker or Crockpot, this can be done in the slow cooker for the […]

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