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Up until now, my company has always provided lunch for its employees- its been just a soup and salad bar, but its been kind of a luxury as most companies would never do that. However, in this new economy, they are cutting out the free employee lunches to save money, so I will have to decide to...

Will you stimulate the economy or save it or both? We'll be saving half and using the other half to put new tile in our downstairs bathroom. Of course, our check will be mailed and we're at the end of the list, so we won't get ours until July & some of our friends make too much and don't even...

I'm beside myself- $3.39 a gallon- $60 to fill up my V-6 Jeep Grand Cherokee?? That's just too much, not to mention that DH drives all over the State of CT for a living. In addition, we just paid $3.45 a gallon for our last heating oil delivery this week, it'll take us 'till June to pay for this...

I'm making good old-fashioned spaghetti & metaballs with garlic bread and extra fresh grated parmesan. What will you have?

I'm making Ol-Blue's melt-in-your-mouth meatloaf. It sounds too good not to try, with mashed potatoes & gravy, and green beans. I don't know which I'm more excited about- tonight's dinner or tomorrow's sandwiches. What about you??

Instead of making tacos with a traditional ground beef, I make them with shredded beef made from flank steak. I learned this recipe from my mother, who always made them this way and claims that it a very commom taco recipe in her home country of Costa Rica. These are served with sliced tomato...

I'm sitting here eating my crunchy peanut butter on raisin bread toast for breakfast and I'm already thinking about dinner.... I'm making a roast chicken with stuffing, yukon gold mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans and rolls with butter. It's my go-to comfort dinner on snowy days. What...

I'm oven "poaching" some chicken breasts in chicken broth and spices, and serving it with a greek salad of romaine, crumbled feta, red onion, cucumber, tomato & kalamata olives with a homemade honey balsamic vinaigrette. (Only a little bit of crumbled feta for me, I'm trying to keep it light)...

Well, after 2 days, we're all tired of eating leftover Christmas lasagna here. So I'll get back to cooking tonight. I'm keeping it light though, oven baked sea bass with a light ginger soy and a salad of red leaf lettuce, poached pears and candied walnuts. Anyone else?

I make these only once a year during the holidays... too bad, 'cause they're so darn good... Cappuccino Bars 8 oz. Bittersweet chocolate, chopped 1 ½ sticks unsalted butter, cut into pieces 2 Tb. instant espresso powder dissolved in 1 Tb. boiling water 1 ½ C. sugar 2 tsp. Vanilla 4 large...

Snow's coming down an inch an hour here. I'm hoping DH is already on his way home! I'm making winter comfort food here, an eye-round braised pot roast style, baked potatoes with butter, green beans and hot rolls to warm us up tonight. What's on your table?

I'm making "gyros" (my style). I make mini spiced turkey burgers, they're served on grilled pitas with a cucumber yogurt sauce, chopped tomatoes, red onion and crumbled feta. Whatcha' fixin' tonight?

I'm making shredded chicken and pepper jack quesadillas with homemade guacamole and tomato salsa. Red rice and black beans on the side. Anyone else cooking tonight?

I taught a Spanish tapas cooking class last week and this recipe was everyone's favorite! I love mini meals and Spanish flavors are so intriguing, if anyone has their own Spanish tapas recipes, please post!! Just a tidbit of information. It is said that the name for these little dishes is...

This is a recipe that I learned to make from my mother. She started making it in the 1970's and I've been doing it for about 9 years. It's great with coffee in the morning or afternoon or with a scoop of vanilla ice cream after dinner. 5 Apples, Granny Smith or another good baking variety ½ C...

Hello everyone, I was exploring a food festival recently and someone brought me a sample of a juicy slice of flank steak marinated in something called chimichurri. I asked a couple of people and got different answers as to its origin, some said it's a Venezuelan dish, some said Argentinian...

We're having baked ziti with ricotta and mozzarella. I like to slice meatballs and add them in. Tradtional garlic bread and steamed broccoli on the side.

Our favorite Mexican restaurant has a to-die-for dish called Chicken with Pipian Sauce. It's large shreds of chicken meat drenched in this velvety bright red sauce and it's super spicy and delicious! The menu description says its made with tomatoes, peanuts and spices. Does anyone have a...

This is a great cold-weather meal that we have often during Sunday football games. It seems long, but is actually very easy to do. Stew: 3 1/2 pounds trimmed beef chuck, cut into chunks 1 tsp. salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper 3 tb. vegetable oil 3 med. onions, chopped 12 ounces dark...

My DH and I just signed up for Netflix, the online video rental service where they send you as many movies as you want for a monthly fixed price, well we got our first movie today and what did my husband order? ...Tron, remember that movie from the 80's? Of all the movies that have ever been...

I'm so happy I found this incredible forum! I worked as a professional cook in restaurants for 7 years making it all the way up to Sous Chef and then made the switch to pastry arts (mainly because often, the other chefs I worked with understandably wanted nothing to do with baking). After...