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Confetti Pasta Salad is an excellent, and strategic, cold salad to serve on Labor Day. Why strategic? Because if you make it the day before (it gets better with “age”), you’ll do no “labor” on Labor Day {grin}! With Labor Day right around the corner, picnics, grilling, barbecues and family gatherings are ramping up across the country as the end of summer draws…
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This may seem like an odd thing to say, but I really enjoy writing these monthly emergency planning posts. Why? Because they keep me moving forward! And, this post, Emergency Food Supply: are you Ready? does just that for me. Moves me forward. Because just like most of you, I lead a “toot sweet” life and am easily distracted by…
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Busy Day Vegetable Gratin is one of those perfect recipes: an easy, cheesy, creamy, delicious comfort-food side dish that’s perfect for a family dinner, gathering or a party. Deliciously creamy from a homemade white sauce base full of cheesy goodness, the nourishing mix of vegetables gains added crunch from the buttery cracker topping. Made with frozen vegetables, you don’t need to rush to your favorite…
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Charlie and I live about 35 miles inland from the ocean. And, even though San Diego County has a temperate climate most of the year, it is not unusual that our inland temperature climb to 100 degrees, hovering there for several days in the Spring and Summer months. Fueled, daily, by strong ocean breezes, while our valley is hot, it’s…
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Welcome to 42 Storage Solutions in Your Home! If you are a new visitor to my blog, I’m working on my own personal household inventory and decided to share it as I go. We lost our home in a wildfire in 2007 (see series of posts, starting with Any Way the Wind Blows) and it took me 9 months of…
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Sweet Onion, Red Pepper and Italian Sausage Flatbread Pizza is such a ridiculously long title for such an easy recipe! 51 characters not including the spaces! When naming a recipe, how does one choose? For me, I like to consider several factors: the main ingredients the main flavor profile how many servings, i.e., “individual”, “family-sized”, “potluck” the time of year,…
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