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Sloppy Joes

You come home from work (or school), after a long day of breaking rocks, assembling widgets, or sitting through meetings… You’re hungry. Everyone’s hungry. There’s “nothing to eat.” Why not whip out some sloppy joes? They’re pretty quick, tasty, and they make a decent meal. The main ingredients are: ground beef, some tomato product, and some spices. They take less than 30 minutes, and you get a hot meal for not much work. Just make sure you have enough ketchup for the recipe, and for the future! Nothing’s worse than running out of ketchup.

“I made ‘em extra schloppy for ya!” (lunch lady from Billy Madison)

A few recipes below…

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Country Roasted Chicken

My inspiration for roasting a whole chicken came from watching an episode of Alton Brown’s “Good Eats” and a recipe called “Thyme on your hands Chicken” from the Lionhouse Cookbook. I made it once before I started my blog, so today I’m making it again, and taking pictures to share along the way.

What does “roasting” mean? It just means to bake. Only, you bake a cake, and you roast meat!

I found the Good Eats episode on YouTube (2 parts):

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Make your own pizza

I think more people should try making their own pizza. You might like it. It’s not hard, and it doesn’t take very long. Just think: there’s no extra charge for toppings; no delivery charge; use your own, freshly hand-picked high quality ingredients. This is what you could make:

Details below…

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Crock Pot Cookery: Chicken

I made up this recipe all by myself. I put everything in the crock pot, went to school for a few hours, and hoped for the best. When I got home from school, it looked like this:

AND, it tasted AWESOME! Instructions below…

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Honey Baked Chicken

How many ways can you prepare chicken? I have my usual methods, but was looking for something new to try that would be easy and tasty. I found this recipe for Honey Baked Chicken. The chicken is baked in a sauce of honey, butter, and a touch of mustard. As you can see from the picture, it looks real dandy, but how did it taste? Read on…

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For Dinner: Ribs, potatoes, brussel sprouts

For dinner, I made BBQ ribs, twice-baked potatoes, and golden crusted brussel sprouts. It was delicious! These ribs were pork spare-ribs which I hadn’t tried cooking before. Twice-baked potatoes are always tasty and I found the brussel sprouts recipe on 101 Cookbooks. Read more for the details…

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