Author: MaryKate
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Come Home to Chicken Stew
Who likes coming home to dinner already made? ME! But hey, I’m single and I work full-time. Wait. I have a crock pot. If you don’t have a house-spouse, your best friend would be the crock pot. Plug it in as you leave, come home to dinner. It’s happiness in an appliance. Feel free to…
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Happy President's Day! All-American Chicken Ranch Burgers
So Denise and I decided to go theme-ways for this particular Monday holiday. What does the theme of “Presidents’ Day” conjure up for you? Let me tell you, I had IDEAS. Many of them were particularly complicated, some were elaborate, and my fridge is still full of ingredients I bought while over-thinking my options. What…
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Almost-Instant Black Bean Soup
It’s winter, so it’s already dark when you get home, late, hungry. and cold. There’s probably some sandwich stuff in the fridge, and there’s cereal, but again, it’s cold. And you’re hungry. NOW. You need this soup. In about 15 minutes, with very minimal effort, you have fresh wondrous HOT satisfying soup. Black Bean Soup…
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Whatever Wednesday: Freshen Up
What do we most need for winter and cold and flu season? Vodka. Yup, vodka. The cheapest rotgut vodka you can buy, in the largest quantity you can buy, and you can deodorize your furniture, carpets, curtains, freshen up your air, and even sanitize your hands. Non-Chemical Hand Sanitizer Adapted from a few different online…
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Whatever Wednesday: Cleaning Screens and Polishing Wood
Detailed cleaning, for those times before company is coming over — or your mother is visiting. Get out your old pillowcases or t-shirts. We’re cleaning screens and polishing your furniture. Screens. If you have a TV from this century, it has some weird plastic-y screen, not a glass one. Which means, given that it’s a…
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Overnight Oatmeal
Breakfast is, as people love to say, the most important meal of the day. It also takes place before I’m fully awake. Basically, I feel way more awesome each day if I eat breakfast. But if breakfast isn’t stupid easy — I’m talking pretty much fireproof — I put it off, start work, and wonder…
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Whatever Wednesday: Household Scrubbing and Drains
Here, look at this pretty photo of Star Island’s research center, as my bathtub isn’t that exciting. Why not start the cleaning series with the deep cleaning of scrubbing? This is a method more than a recipe, and works on bathtubs as well as kitchen and bathroom sinks. Now if you do some searching online,…
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Miraculous ALLERGEN-FRIENDLY Fried Cheez Nuggets
When Denise and I sat down to discuss things we needed to learn to make, things we could not longer eat “normal” versions of, one of the things that popped to the top of the list was what my college roommate called “bar food” — fried foods that tasted great and had little or no…