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Parmesan Sage Pork Chops

Reviewed: May 18, 2012

I really liked this recipe. It sounds so simple, but the addition of the cheese with the lemon zest really makes a simple dish taste not-so-simple. One thing I did this last time is I put a few slices of hard-crusted bread and put them in the freezer so that I could grate them and make my own bread crumbs. I also didn't have a lemon, but had lemon juice so I just added a few drops of lemon juice onto the bread crumb mixture. I also didn't have sage and the combo of parsley and rosemary tasted amazing as well. This is a great recipe as-is, but is also a good "base" recipe to jump off of.

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Eggnog II

Reviewed: Nov. 23, 2009

I love egg nog and I have been wanting to try making it for years and I'm glad I found this recipe to begin with. I did make it a bit differently. As the others suggested, I did use a double boiler and it worked out great. Also, I am not on a diet but I am trying to eat better, so I substituted the milk with some fat free half and half for 2/3 of the milk amount and then fat free condensed milk for 1/3 of the milk amount. It makes the egg nog extremely creamy which is how I like it. I also used the Splenda/sugar blend for the sugar amount listed in the recipe. Even with the changes that I made to this recipe, it truly was the best egg nog I've ever had. Prior to serving the egg nog, however, I give a splash of ameretto and then garnish with just a little bit of nutmeg. I skipped the mixing in of the whipping cream since it was already creamy enough and felt this was a step that was not necessary. I also believe, that without any changes that I made, the recipe will be one of the best egg nogs you've ever tasted.

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Asian Salmon

Reviewed: Apr. 5, 2009

I read the reviews first and decided to follow the suggestions for making more sauce (I agree it's a "must") and adding some ginger to it. I also decided to broil the salmon tops in order to carmelize the sauce on the salmon(yum). While I was broiling the salmon, I was reducing the sauce on the stove top, if it doesn't reduce quick enough then use the corn starch, but I prefer to just reduce the sauce by cooking it on a slow boil on the stove in order to ger a nice thick "gravy" without adding the corn starch or flower, that way you're not adding any other flavors to that phenominally delicious sauce. I will definitely make this again!

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Italian Style Pot Roast

Reviewed: Apr. 5, 2009

I only had a few items in my pantry and went in search of something I could make with crushed tomatoes and a pot roast... well this recipe made it to the top of the list because it sounded so darned good. Well, not only did it satisfy the ingredient search, but the tummies of me, my fiance and his hard-to-please-teenager son. If a 15-year-old asks for you to make it again, you know it was a hit! So, thanks for this recipe. I altered this to a crock-pot version, and skipped the corn starch phase. By making it in the crock pot, it's now a quick and easy meal and it's ready when everyone is back from work. I also served it more like a pot roast and served it with a side dish of elbow macaroni and used the sauce from the crock pot as it's gravy and then had some hard italian bread and it was totally yummy!

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Turkey Brine

Reviewed: Dec. 9, 2008

I really enjoyed this recipe. I never made a turkey before and was very apprehensive. However, brining it made it so extremely juicy and tasty. Instead of using vegetable stock, I used chicken stock. I also added a shot of tequila to the brine and I think it added some extra flavor.

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Whipped Cardamom Sweet Potatoes

Reviewed: Dec. 27, 2006

This was extremely good. The cardamom gave it just enough extra flavor that really made these not just simple to make, but really made it look like I had gone to more trouble than I had. I even pulled about half of the mixture and put it into a casserole dish and topped with marshmallows, because we had never tried sweet potatoes with marshmallows. Well, it was this one that was gone before the "plain" mashed ones! I recommend this recipe for anyone who loves sweet potatoes, it gives it some uniqueness but leaves what you love about them in tact.

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Apple Orchard Punch

Reviewed: Dec. 27, 2006

Extremely easy to make, but makes a nice presentation especially once you cut the apples up and let them float in the punch. I made this for our Thanksgiving dinner, and my whole family loved it, even my 3 picky teenage nephews.

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Cool Whip Cookies

Reviewed: Dec. 27, 2006

You can use ANY packaged cake mix, and you can even use dry brownie mix. You can also get creative with what kind of sugar mix you use to roll the dough into. My friend made a mix of sugar and splenda and ground it up to mimic the texture of powdered sugar and the cookies were fabulous! For as easy as this is to make, the cookies taste better than I've had in a long time, AND they always remain moist!

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Blue Cranberry Sauce

Reviewed: Dec. 27, 2006

I highly recommend this recipe - made it for the first time for Thanksgiving dinner. I made a traditional cranberry sauce as well as this one. While the traditional was really good, too, this one the whole family raved about. The only changes I made was to use several different holiday-related spices while the cranberries were brought to boil -- such as cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. My family really liked this, in fact so much they asked me to make a batch for Christmas dinner too.

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Holiday Cranberry Sauce

Reviewed: Dec. 27, 2006

I never made cranberry sauce before, and decided that I would make it for the family Thanksgiving dinner this year. It was a HIT. The only thing that I had to change is that when you first start cooking this, bring to a boil then reduce to medium heat and wait for the berries to burst. Otherwise it doesn't get as thick as you would expect. I figured this out based on reviewing other similar cranberry sauce recipes before making this one. I decided upon this one because of all the spices that were in this. They really made a delicious cranberry sauce.

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Lover's Beef Burgundy Filet

Reviewed: Dec. 27, 2006

This recipe lives up to the "hype". I made this for an anniversary dinner with my fiance and we both LOVED it. I highly recommend making this dish for someone you love, the best way to a man's heart is truly through his stomach and this is the right ammunition :)

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