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Jamie's Cranberry Spinach Salad

Reviewed: Nov. 19, 2007

I have been making this salad for years and cannot believe I have not reviewed it before. It is one of my favorite salads. I use baby salad spinach, toast the almonds in the oven with no butter, and cut the sugar in the dressing down to 1/4 cup. This is always a hit, even with non-lovers of spinach!

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Chicken in a Pot

Reviewed: Nov. 18, 2007

I doubled the sauce ingredients, including the mushrooms (thank you, reviewers!). This was a nice, simple, delicious dish. I served with roasted garlic cauliflower from this site, and French cut green beans with almonds. Easy and very good!

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Gingerbread Biscotti

Reviewed: Nov. 18, 2007

I made these today for Thanksgiving, and it will be a miracle if they last until then. My husband and I both love them. My original intention had been to drizzle with white chocolate, but why mess with perfection? My dough was very sticky, so I added a bit more flour, and I lowered the temperature to 350 degrees. I didn't bother turning the cut biscotti. Magnificent!!!

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French Bread Rolls to Die For

Reviewed: Nov. 12, 2007

I tried to sub half of the white flour with King Arthur organic whole wheat white. They weren't awful, they just weren't as good as I know they would have been if I had followed the recipe.

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Beef Stew V

Reviewed: Nov. 12, 2007

My entire family loved this stew! I cooked the floured meat right in my soup pot and deglazed it with the liquid. Perhaps that is why mine came out nice and thick, not at all like a soup. I used half beef broth and half water with a touch of better than bouillon for the water. I used petite-diced tomatoes, less celery, and added some frozen peas at the end of cooking for both color and flavor. This was comfort food at it's best!

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Chicken Delicious

Reviewed: Nov. 7, 2007

This was pretty darn good for a slow cooker/canned soup recipe. I realized that I wasn't going to be able to make what I had planned for dinner, so had to look for a recipe I could cook in the slow cooker. I used low sodium soups and Spanish smoked paprika. My daughter thought it was bland, but I think she just likes more salt than I do. I served this with rotini whole grain pasta, baby carrots and broccoli, and I would make this again. The sauce is a bit thin, so I might thicken it next time.

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Blender Hollandaise Sauce

Reviewed: Nov. 4, 2007

This is the easiest hollandaise recipe ever, and very tasty. I have been using this method for hollandaise for years and it always works, as long as your butter is hot enough and you use at least three yolks. I have had no luck making a smaller amount. This made our lobster benedict a real treat!!

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Southern Pulled Pork

Reviewed: Oct. 23, 2007

I made this as directed and felt that it really lacked flavor. As others recommended I added barbeque sauce, but felt that the flavor of the sauce didn't go well with the flavor of the pork. I also thought that cutting the pork into chunks and browning it, as well as cooking on high, made the meat drier than pulled pork recipes that I have used.

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Split Pea Soup

Reviewed: Oct. 17, 2007

This is a very nice, basic split pea soup. I usually use smoked ham hocks if I don't have a ham bone, but I went to two stores and couldn't find any. I used smoked ham neck bones instead, and I thought they made the soup very flavorful.

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Chewy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Reviewed: Oct. 17, 2007

As I always do when making cookies, I subbed King Arthur organic Whole wheat white flour for the all-purpose flour, and this is the first time that I think it made a difference in the cookie. My cookies came out cakey and dry. They also did not have much of a peanut butter flavor. I should have read more reviews and added additional peanut butter.

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Zesty Tuna Salad

Reviewed: Oct. 3, 2007

The mustard did give a little zip to a very basic tuna salad. I was drawn to this recipe because it only called for one teaspoon of mayo, but I did have to add a bit more so that it wasn't dry.

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Summer Corn Salad

Reviewed: Oct. 2, 2007

My local produce market had corn that they had marked as "the best of the year", so I decided to make this salad. The corn was fabulous and sweet, but made as directed, this salad did not wow me. I did let it marinate for several hours, but the flavor just wasn't there. I added some homemade italian dressing for a little more flavor before serving.

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Virgina's Tuna Salad

Reviewed: Sep. 24, 2007

I used one egg for only one can of tuna, and thought it was perfect. I cut all the other ingredients by a third, except for the mayo, which I cut even a bit more. Dill relish was my choice. I really enjoyed this simple salad for lunch!

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Slammin' Salmon

Reviewed: Sep. 22, 2007

Very nice! After reading other reviews, I didn't bother with the peanut oil, but did use the sesame oil for the flavor. As always, I used low sodium tamari soy sauce. Marinated only two hours, my wild Alaskan salmon was very flavorful and moist. I served this with garlic red potatoes from this site and it was a wonderful combo.

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Garlic Red Potatoes

Reviewed: Sep. 22, 2007

LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this recipe. I could have eaten the entire bowl myself! I used small red creamers and less butter. I sprinkled them with Spanish smoked paprika from Penzeys for the final ten minutes, which put them over the top, flavorwise. Thanks, Laura, I will make these often.

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Warm Mushroom Spread

Reviewed: Sep. 22, 2007

I have to give this five stars because of the way my friends raved and scarfed it down, but I thought it was missing a little something. I would probably add a chipotle pepper next time or something with a little heat. I bet it would be delicious on a steak, as other reviewers noted.

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Warm Blue Cheese Dip with Garlic and Bacon

Reviewed: Sep. 22, 2007

I do not care for blue cheese, but after reading the reviews I decided to give this a try. I did like the dip very much served on French bread, but I used low sodium bacon and it was still pretty salty; if I had used regular bacon I fear it might not have been good at all. I thought it tasted best when really warm, so next time I would serve it in a mini chafing dish to keep it hot.

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Butterscotch Brownies III

Reviewed: Sep. 16, 2007

I cut the sugar down to 3/4 cup, baked 28 minutes, and the brownies came out quite dry. Perhaps reducing the sugar to make them not too sweet as other reviewers reported, made a difference in their texture.

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Artichoke Salsa

Reviewed: Sep. 12, 2007

This definitely needs time in the fridge for the flavors to blend. I took the advice of some reviewers and chopped it a bit in the food processor, which made it more manageable on a chip, but less appealing visually. In the end, I think it would have been better served on crostini.

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Ultimate Twice Baked Potatoes

Reviewed: Sep. 10, 2007

We had these with steak and salad, and my finicky teen daughter thought it was the perfect meal! I used a bit less low fat sour cream. Worth the calories? Probably!

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