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85Living Frugally in Los Angeles (or anywhere else)
Frugal: "economical in use or spending"A Roof Over Your Head Even though Los Angeles is not the most expensive place in the United States to live it certainly isn't cheap. With rent/mortgage, transportation,...
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78Mayonnaise and many variants
Mayonnaise is basically eggs, vinegar, lemon (or lime) juice, salt, pepper, and oil in an emulsion. Basic Mayonnaise is pretty easy to make and can be done in a blender, by hand with a whisk, or (my...
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78The "Best" Cookware
All Clad is a manufacturer of composite metals that originally made sandwich materials for aerospace, shipbuilding, and automotive industries. The company was founded in 1968 based on a patent by John Ulam....
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66Beef Burgundy Chili
This is absolutely my favorite chili recipe. It requires one pan, well stockpot, and plenty of time. After cooking storage in the refrigerator overnight actually improves it's flavor, much like Italian...
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84Popovers
A popover is a simple quick bread with minimal ingredients, fast cooking time, and with a tasty (and fun for the kids) result. Popovers are a distinctly American food derived from a recipe for Yorkshire...
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77The "Best" French Toast & Crepes
French toast is a ready remedy for stale bread. After all, french toast (a misnomer apparently) is simply stale bread battered with eggs then fried. French toast is not actually French in origin. The...
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78Pressure Cooking
The first pressure cooker was invented by Denis Papin, a French physician and mathematician. Papin called his device "marmite de Papin" or the Papin Digester*. It worked exactly as pressure cookers do...
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65Kitchen Ingredient Substitutions
This happens to everyone who has ever stepped foot into the kitchen to make something. A key ingredient is missing. Perhaps more importantly, you'd rather not use the butter, oil, or fat a recipe calls for....
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71Kitchen Cookware Substitutions
It happens more often than we like. We are in the middle of a simple or complex recipe and it calls for some special aparatus to finish the cooking process. Melted chocolate: You need a double boiler. ...
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67Saving Money on Food
Food prices are going up. This is the inevitable result of fuel prices rising. The more fuel used to ship things, the more those things will cost. Of course you, the consumer, are footing this bill. ...
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