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Awhile back I bartered with my neighbor Francisco and one of the items we traded was a can of cream of mushroom soup. In all my life I think I have purchased maybe 2 cans of cream of mushroom soup, so I wasn’t exactly sure what to do with it. Then I looked in one Read More >>
So, while surfing the net in an effort to stay relevant {okay, really, just to pass the time, but it seems so much more sophisticated to say: “stay relevant”}, I came across an article on Yahoo about the USDA allowing U.S. grown chickens to be shipped to China, processed, and then shipped back to the Read More >>
Over the weekend The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird and I headed to the feed store and picked up 8 day old baby chicks for fall. When we brought them home Lucy flipped out! She LOVES chickens, and especially baby chicks. When brought baby chicks home earlier this spring she sat outside of their little Read More >>
So you know how you’re supposed to rinse your chicken and pat it dry before cooking it? Yeah, well, at least, I THOUGHT you were supposed to, but it turns out, you’re not. I stumbled onto an NPR article the other day that explained that the science behind rinsing chicken is faulty. The article claimed Read More >>
I like the taste of General Tso’s chicken, but I don’t like my chicken battered in flour so I prepare our General Tso’s chicken a little differently. I also like to jack up the vegetables quite a bit. The sauce is the same, but this version is a little lighter {and happier}. I hope you Read More >>
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