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Rodalena Recipes: Spicy Coconut Chips
And now for something completely different… My mother-in-law is an adventurous eater. It’s one of the things I love about her. This recipe is the analysis of a snack she and my sister-in-law’s mother...
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Rodalena Recipes: Potato Soup
It’s been raining all. day. long. It smells like fall, and the days are getting shorter. Today, the weather said, “Potato soup!” and it was pretty emphatic about it. If this happens to you, you’d...
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Thanksgiving: The Shed-jule, Part II
Let’s get to the good part: the food. Here is my Thanksgiving Menu: Appetizers: Spinach Dip and Pumpernickel Bread Cream Cheese and Pecan Stuffed Celery Cream Cheese Dill Dip and Crackers Pecan Tassies...
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Thanksgiving: The Shed-jule, Part III
Thursday. The Big Day. Let’s do this: First, I determine when I need to roll my lazy carcass out of bed. Calculate the time the turkey needs to roast/fry/bar-be-que versus the time dinner should be on...
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Rodalena Recipes: Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie
“The End is Nigh!” the man shouted. “Is there still time for hot chocolate?” Riley asked. The-End-is-Nigh guy blinked. “Ah, maybe, I don’t know.” ~Jane Oliver, “Forbidden” Well, kids, according to...
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Rodalena Recipes: Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas
How To Please a Crowd: Step 1: Take your shoes off. Turn on some good music. Find a young kid, and dance. Step 2: Boil 6-8 nicely sized chicken breasts. This takes time (let the boobs swim in a gently...
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Rodalena Recipes: Black Bean Salad
I don’t wanna cook. Don’t gimme that look: it’s like a thousand degrees outside. I don’t even wanna eat anything that has been cooked. I want to move into the fridge. There’s a real nice spot in the...
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Rodalena Recipes: Summer Songs and Afternoon Delight
Summer has its own sound track, headlined, of course by Ella’s “Summertime.” That’s The Summer Song, dang it, the American Anthem of Summer. “Well, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow,Kick...
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Rodalena Recipes: Apple Pie
It’s quiet now. We’ve eaten our way through a ridiculous amount of sugary fattening things we attempt to avoid religiously the rest of the year, and had a marvelous feast on top of that, which included...
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Rodalena Recipes: Lavender Bath Salts
Life is stressful. Everywhere you look, there’s something happening that threatens to raise the blood pressure and set one’s teeth permanently on edge. It seems as though everyone is tense, from those...
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