Category Archives: Comfort Food

A Back to School Favorite! Pizza Chicken

You know, it’s totally possible to have a family meal together every night.  There’s no need to call Chili’s for carry-out or troop over to Quiznos.  With just a bit of planning you can have a meal ready to go … Continue reading

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Pasta and Seafood Salad

We’ve still got lots of heat left this summer.  A couple of weeks ago it got hot and muggy here, just a few miles inland, in north San Diego County.  Hot enough that we really didn’t want to cook in … Continue reading

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Cuban Mojo Pork Roast

Last week my grocery store (Stater Brothers) had bone-in pork shoulder roast on special for $.99 a pound.  That’s a good deal even with the bone-in.  So I got one figuring I could freeze it and slow cook it when … Continue reading

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Quick and Easy Potato Salad

Comedian Ron White has this really funny monologue where he says that he once gave an alias to a cop by telling him that “They call me “Tater Salad”.  Well today’s recipe is ‘Tater Salad” but they still don’t call … Continue reading

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Shredded Leftover Roast Beast Part 2

After my last two posts you may be getting the impression that I enjoy the proverbial “squeeze the nickel so hard that the buffalo craps”.  Well, you would be right.  Let’s face it, times are hard—at least they are for … Continue reading

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