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    Mushroom sauce for pasta?

    Lately, my lady friend and I have been on a premium fresh pasta kick, focusing on various locally available specialty raviolis in particular. We can't seem to get enough of them... but I am getting more than a little tired of tomato-based sauces or pesto-based sauces no matter how good they may...
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    "Andros Diner" Greek Restaurant Salad Dressing

    For many years, there was a small Greek restaurant just west of Boston, MA in Belmont, MA named the "Andros Diner." A local favorite, it was most famous for its amazing "home-made" Greek salad dressing, best described as pink in color, loaded with crumbled feta cheese, creamy yet thin, complex...
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    Cooking pork tenderloin roast ahead of time?

    Old Gramps is back looking for help yet again. This time the dish is pork tenderloin roast (three of them, actually - fairly large ones too) and the issue is how to cook ahead for a late Christmas day dinner at another relative's house 2-3 hours away. My concern is that cooked ahead of time...
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    Extra-Large Meatloaf Cooking Temperature

    Old Gramps is back looking for help in the kitchen again. To make a long, complicated story short, my lady friend insisted on me making a massive meatloaf today, about 5-6 pounds of meat in total (combination of beef, veal and pork) plus the usual other ingredients. By the time I was done...
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    Oil For Deep Frying Turkeys?

    Looks like old Gramps needs some help yet again. My lady friend is insisting that we try a deep fried turkey this Thanksgiving. She even ran out and bought the deep fryer without me knowing about it. The label on the box says it's a "30 quart aluminum deep fryer than can cook an 18 pound turkey...
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    Sugar-free (or Unsweetened) Iced Tea Mix

    Over time, I have become terribly spoiled by some of the better sugar-free iced teas that come already prepared (and often refrigerated) in small to large glass and plastic bottles. Some are even relatively inexpensive if you wait and only buy them on sale. However, my circumstances have...
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    Help!!! Question Re: Slow Cooker Pot Roast

    Help please! I had defrosted a very lean 5 lb "top round roast" (an oven roast) for cooking yesterday, but I ended up out all afternoon and then eating out at a restaurant. When I got home late last night, I decided to prepare the now-defrosted oven roast as a pot roast by cooking it all night...
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    Cuisinart Grind & Brew Thermal 12-Cup Automatic Coffeemaker

    I would like to solicit opinions here in regard to this particular Cuisinart coffee maker (shown below). We have always had very good luck with Cuisinart coffee makers before, but this newest coffee maker, purchased last year, has been nothing short of a nightmare. For reasons that we still...
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    Indoor Fireplace Grill

    For father's day, my son got me an indoor fireplace grill. It's made out of stainless steel and just barely fits behind the fireplace's glass doors, but it sure looks like fun and I am dying to try it. It's quite large and very sturdy. God only knows what he paid for it. For years, we have...
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    Best tuna fish salad

    Just found this website and decided to join so I could ask a few questions of the experts. My first questions are about good old-fashioned tuna fish salad. Please pardon me if I should know more for my advanced age, but I don't. First question is: How long is tuna fish good in the can? At what...
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