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Microwaved Sweet Candied Yams (sweet Potatoes)

Irene — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 17:06:12 +0000

Super easy and quick microwaved sweet candied Yams. Free up oven space and save on cook time with this easy candied Yam recipe. This recipe can also be used for sweet potatoes. Save on time and effort with this easy recipe without sacrificing flavour. Enjoy!

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Vegetable Spring Rolls

Irene — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 20:55:08 +0000

These vegetable spring rolls can be made as simple or complex as your taste buds desire. These are filled with shredded cabbage, carrot and beansprouts. Optional ingredients include: mushrooms, celery, pork, chicken, shrimp etc. If you cant find spring rolls you can certainly substitute with egg roll wrappers. Egg roll wrappers are thicker than spring...

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Vegetable Egg Rolls

Irene — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 21:11:20 +0000

Shredded cabbage, celery, carrots, green onion and some spices…whats easier than that.You’ll love this Chinese inspired vegetable egg roll recipe. This recipe is very low on the difficulty level and actually kind of fun to make. But maybe that’s just me cause I love to cook. These egg rolls are deep fried, because I prefer...

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Barbecued Zucchini

Irene — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 18:46:00 +0000

Can’t stand the heat in the kitchen?! Well get out there and barbecue. On today’s menu we are having barbecued zucchini. It’s easy, it’s fast, doesn’t heat up your kitchen and as most of you know that’s the way I like to cook most of the time. I’m not going to make this long and...

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Preparing a Pumpkin for Baking

Irene — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:10:00 +0000

This method uses a microwave to cook the pumpkin. It’s quick and easy to prepare, you’ll never use another method again it’s that simple.First find yourself a nice ‘pie pumpkin’, the flesh is a bit sweeter and slightly more tender than the large carving pumpkins. Cut the pumpkin into chunks and scrape off the seeds...

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Salty Garlic Pumpkin Seeds

Irene — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:20:00 +0000

Add wow to your pumpkin seeds by adding garlic or garlic salt.This is a great way to make use of all those leftover seeds when cutting up your pumpkin for baking or carving!Wash seeds in a colander to remove the stringy flesh. Shake off the excess water and line cookie sheet with parchment paper. Spread...

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Onion Rings

Irene — Wed, 15 May 2013 03:39:00 +0000

This is the easiest batter for onion rings. Similar to my batter for fish, although this has a wee bit of spice added to it. I used purple onions only because I still have a partial bushel of these onions left and I’m trying to use them up. Sweet onions or spanish onions are ideal...

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Acorn Squash

Irene — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:09:00 +0000

This is a simple, no fuss, and easy acorn squash recipe. When using the microwave this squash is ready in about 15minutes. I bought a half dozen acorn squash at my local farmers market, before they closed down for the season. They keep really well in a cool dry basement for at least a couple...

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Shepherds Pie

Irene — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:27:00 +0000

Shepherds pie is one of the first things I learned to cook in my ‘home economics’ class in high school. I’ve been making it ever since. The vegetables that I use are whatever I have on hand, fresh or frozen. No salt or pepper is added to the meat because gravy is usually salty enough....

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Creamy Cucumber Salad

Irene — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:10:00 +0000

This is a nice refreshing salad. My Mom made this a lot when I was young, maybe it was because we had a huge vegetable garden, so when a certain type of vegetable became ripe we had a lot of it.Any type of cucumber can be used for this recipe. If cucumbers are very large...

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