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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Giant Mutant Zucchini

I mentioned yesterday the mutant zucchini that the bread was made from. I should have expected it after seeing the size of the plants. But this is just ridiculous.

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How To Make Zucchini Bread

I thought it was going to be hard to keep up with the tomatoes from Lou’s garden. Somehow I managed to not think about what was going to come from those mutant zucchini plants. But they started producing anyway. So of course I asked the baker of the house to make some zucchini bread.

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Bruschetta Pizza

Look! Out on the buffet table … it’s bruschetta … it’s French bread pizza … it’s … bruschetta pizza! Okay, I couldn’t decide which one to call it, so it’s both.

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How To Make Baked Macaroni And Cheese

I’m a big fan of comfort food: meat loaf and mashed potatoes, chicken soup, chocolate-chip cookies. And of course, mac and cheese. Like most of you, I grew up on the neon orange stuff that comes in the blue box. And in my house that was made with margarine, because we had all been told [...]

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A Less-effective Way to Roast Garlic

My father-in-law roasts his own garlic all the time. He recently heard of a new technique that was supposed to make it easy to do more at one time, with less mess. I went over to watch him do it. He told me how it would go, and it sounded pretty good.

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