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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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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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Italian green beans with tomatoes

Italian Green Beans and Tomatoes

If you’re looking for something different, and easy, this fits the bill! 1 lb. Fresh green beans trimmed 1 pint cherry tomatoes quartered or grape tomatoes halved, or small tomatoes sliced and halved. ¼ cup Italian dressing Optional – diced onion Cook beans in a small amount of water for 10 to 15 minutes, or…

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Split Pea Soup

Split Pea Soup

 I use the ham-bone every time I’ve made a ham to make pea soup or navy bean soup. You can also use smoked ham shank, 2 ham hocks, or ½ lb. Beef shank – but I think the ham bone is the best. There are 2 versions. Version 2 is the standard version. Version 1…

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turkey

Perfect Turkey

  Cook this one only if you want to be responsible for the turkey forevermore. Everyone tells you to uncover the turkey during the last half of the cooking. This makes for the dry turkey everyone has grown up with. I‘ve even come up against a cooked in the bag turkey, at the same dinner….

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