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Extraordinary Ingredients, Colorado Springs

I went to Extraordinary Ingredients on Tejon today. It’s right around the corner from my house, and I’ve been a couple times before. But I recently bought a “deal of the day” coupon from gazette.com worth $20 so I thought I’d go spend it.

I got all this stuff for $20.

Extraordinary Ingredients

A small bottle of vanilla extract, [...]

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greek salad, pizza, white beans, and soup

A few things I’ve made lately:

This was easy and good.  One small onion, chopped.  A couple of cloves of garlic, minced.  A cup of dried white beans, rinsed but not soaked. 14 oz of canned tomatoes.  A handful of chopped fresh basil. One bay leaf. Cover by an inch and cook overnight. I cooked it on [...]

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Home Cookin!

Some things I’ve made lately.

Chocolate chip cookies from Joy of Cooking, which is by far the best recipe out there, way better than Toll House. Also instead of using regular chocolate chips I used these yummy little dark chocolate disks by Felchlin that I chopped up a little. Super tasty.

Chocolate chip cookies, yum.

Grandma's [...]

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Slow cooker black beans

I think I’ve mentione that it is really hard to cook beans up here at 6200 feet. So the other day I thought I’d go ahead and try to do them in the slow cooker. I had finished some in the slow cooker awhile back but I hadn’t done them from the start in it [...]

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Two random recipes

Here are a couple other things I made this week:

Fried egg sandwich, which is basically a toasted English muffin, some mayo, some smushed avocado, and an over- hard fried egg. It was surprisingly good.

Fried Egg Sandwich

I don’t really know what to call this so I’ll call it a potato bowl. It’s a baked potato (microwaved, [...]

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