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How to grill safely

I got an email last month asking if I’d do a recipe for the Food Safe Families campaign. “What’s that?” I asked. They told me:

The Ad Council is joining the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, in partnership with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to debut their first joint national multimedia public service campaign to help families prevent food poisoning in the home.

Oh, well okay then. I’ve always been a fan of not killing my guests. It couldn’t hurt to devote a whole post to talking about how to do that.
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How To Make Crustless Pizza

Okay, listen up:

THIS. IS. AMAZING.

I’m not kidding. I came up with the recipe because I’m eating low carb during the week now, but this is so good I have to try hard to not eat it on the weekend.

Good wood-oven pizza gets a lot of flavor from the slightly toasted cheese. This recipe is almost nothing but toasted cheese. It is seriously, amazingly good.
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How To Make Chocolate Citrus Cake

This recipe proves why I like older cookbooks. All the current recipes — and mixes (not that I would ever use one of those) — are designed to be light and fluffy. This one is dense and rich. It would work really well as a petit four.
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How To Make Citrus Buttercream Icing

Jenn found a Sunkist™ cookbook at a rummage sale last week. I love citrus and chocolate together, so when we saw a recipe for chocolate cake with orange and a citrus frosting, I knew we had a winner. (If you’re a regular reader of my other site, let me assure you that this was my splurge day recipe.)
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