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Shrimp Stuffed Wontons

Make these fried shrimp stuffed wontons as part of a Chinese feast, or enjoy them as an after-school snack. You can even make them in the air fryer.

Hot Tin Roof Salad - Composed Grilled Steak Salad

Hot Tin Roof Salad is a composed salad that has everything going for it, grilled marinated steak, grilled onions, Persian cucumbers, croutons, and fresh lettuce. It's a complete meal you can enjoy with friends and a bottle of white wine.

Love Mushrooms

I love mushrooms, and lately, I have been finding nice big ones at the local corner store. I picked up six of them and decided to wait and have them stuffed for our meatless Friday meal.

The Nesco is the perfect appliance to cook them, as they do not dry out, and can steam in wine. Clean up is a snap, and your kitchen does not heat up.

Chicken Croquetas Croquettes are very tasty and make a great appetizer. They are also a wonderful way to use up leftover chicken. If you're tired of chicken salad, this is the way to go.

Chinese Five-Spice Tandoori Chicken with herb rice is an easy-to-make dinner ideally suited for the small NESCO cooker, the grill, or the air fryer.

Rosemary, garlic chicken wings made in the Nesco served with dual sauces make a great appetizer or snack.

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Stuffing for Mushrooms and Peppers

Wonderful Vegetables

I love living in Glendale and having all these small fresh vegetable grocery stores. Today, I happened to go to two different stores, and one had giant mushrooms, and the other, Edna's had small, heart-shaped red peppers. Both were just the size for stuffing.

Hungarian Pork Chops - an Old Favorite Comfort Food

I love discovering recipes for foods that might not be trendy such as Hungarian Pork Chops.

Suddenly Composed Salad

Arrange your ingredients carefully for a composed salad. The ingredients are not as important as the presentation. Each ingredient should be in its own little area and artfully arranged.

Spane the Train Conductor - How to Make a Train Conductor Hat

Spane wearing his train conductor hat. You have to watch this video to the end, it's so cute!

So, last night, after we had our wonderful Fried Green Tomatoes with Basil Garlic Mayonnaise, it was time to get started on Spane's hat for the annual chorus performance at his school.

Spane came home with a rather large piece of dark blue construction paper, out of which we were to make a hat that expressed his personality. Spane loves trains - a conductor hat was the obvious choice.

So, I looked for vintage conductor hats for my reference - all the other hats were from costumes for engineers - not conductors. The train conductor hat is similar to an airline pilot hat, but not quite. Once I found one, it looked pretty simple.