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Cooking from Scratch: Where's the Work?

Posted August 25, 2009 - 05:00 by Thursday Bram

Food and Drink

Kneading bread

Over the past couple of years, I've moved more toward cooking as much from scratch as I can. I've tried to isolate the places where the biggest concentration of work is in cooking from scratch, and see what I can do about it.

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7 Tips for Streamlining Your Shopping List

Posted January 22, 2008 - 09:25 by Thursday Bram

Food and Drink

I have a long-standing dislike of grocery shopping. Pushing a cart around a store is not one of the ways I amuse myself. I've found that because of my attempts to get in and out of the grocery store, I wind up forgetting things. The only way I can manage is to have a perfect grocery list — the type that includes even the little things that we need on every trip. There are some tricks to figuring out a grocery list, though, and I'm sharing them here and now.

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