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How About a Summer Hot Dog Party?
Everybody wants to keep summer cookout parties simple. What could be simpler – or more fun – than a hot dog party? By simple, I don’t mean mundane or pedestrian. Like planning any dinner party, you’ll want to think about…
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Hot Diggity Dogs
It’s baseball season, and that brings to mind the humble hot dog. Call them “red hots” (or “white hots”), “red dogs,” “Chicago dogs,” “Coneys,” “half smokes,” “Dodger dogs,” or “Puka dogs” – these meals on a bun are an acknowledged…
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Making Sausage the Right Way
If only making laws were like making good sausages, we could all feel a lot better about the way our government operates. Back in the 1860s, German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck reportedly said, “Laws are like sausages. It is better…
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Simple and Quick Go-To Recipes
I’m guessing that many of us are feeling a little burned out on cooking, and there are evenings when we just want an easy menu that will satisfy the family. I’ve felt that way more than once over the past…
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Mom’s Fastest, Easiest Supper
Every once in a while, my mother would send me out in the late afternoon to gather a dozen-plus eggs for supper, as we called the evening meal. I recently asked her why. Was it that we were short on…
