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Tomato & Cucumber Salads

Hooray! Tomato season is here! These salads are so mind numbingly simple and they compliment any meat! Tomato – Cucumber Salad  Cut up slices of tomato and cucumber. Sprinkle with Italian Dressing or Vinaigrette. Add crushed Black pepper.  Let sit covered in the fridge until well chilled – a couple of hours to blend flavors. …

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Spanish Omelet

Cinco de Mayo Meal Ideas

Cinco de Mayo is in a few days. Are you looking for some easy meal ideas to celebrate Cinco de Mayo? My favorite easy go-to Mexican recipes are – Spanish Omelets can be breakfast, lunch , or dinner. For breakfast, team up with sausage and biscuits, and maybe some cool fresh fruit – like pineapple…

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Easy Easter Dinner Ideas

Fried Apples are a southern staple. They go great with ham. Its like apple pie without the crust. They’re called cooked apples up north. Almost everyone will eat green beans. Add a little butter and sprinkle with slivered almonds and they look fancy. A great safe side dish. Get Recipe Broccoli salad is a delicious…

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broccoli salad

Broccoli Salad

If you’ve never had this one, you are really missing out! This is one way to get people to eat their broccoli. My daughter came up with this faster version, and it still tastes great! The red onion adds a little zing. The poppy seed dressing and the raisins add some sweetness. And Bacon? Bacon…

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fried apples

Cooked Apples

This is an old southern favorite! We called them fried apples when I was growing up.  To make Fried Apples Core and slice apples Melt 2-3 tablespoons butter in a large frying pan. Place apple slices in pan. Should be enough to fill pan. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Stir gently to mix completely. Cook…

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Perfectly Easy Ham

Ham is not a particularly healthy choice, but we enjoy it once or twice a year – Christmas and Easter. It’s pretty easy. This was actually the way my grandmother did it, and I still make it this way – Place the ham in the roasting pan, cut side down. Score the ham lengthwise at…

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