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Filling:
Ground meat, any kind
Salt
Pepper
Any other fillings as you see fit! Chop up bacon into tiny squares, or shrimp/prawns, use finely chopped peppers or onion or garlic or chives, add spices as you deem necessary. The great thing about dumplings is that they can be filled with pretty much anything.
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So iTunes continues to astound me. Normally it's shuffle function is fairly intelligent, or at least I find it to be so, but it just went from this:

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to THIS:

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Like really, iTunes ( Read more... )

I'm making dinner tonight, and dinner is therefore going to be spaghetti with meat sauce because I love spaghetti with meat sauce and because my mom picked up a mix of ground beef and ground pork that I am most interested in trying out. Lunch was Kraft Dinner (which as a Canadian I must assert is superior to all other Kraft Mac and Cheese products ( Read more... )

What happens when you put frozen raspberries and their juice into muffin batter?
Why, the muffins in question turn purple, of course! Purple...burgandy...sort of thing. Yeah. Whatever.


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I think a lot of people assume that just because I tend to play by the rules and strive for conventional academic achievments, I don't WANT to learn about or participate in any kind of activity that isn't straight-laced. It's kind of amusing, in its own way ( Read more... )

Fun Fact: According to le Wikipedia, the human stomach can comfortably hold about a liter of food. That's about two pounds ( Read more... )

Another quick and easy recipe courtesy of moi. I'm making these for a get-together tomorrow and just realized I've never posted this recipe here ( Read more... )

Made the butternut squash soup again tonight. Still completely delighted with it. I plan on researching a bacon and potato soup, and maybe a clam chowder--we've had little cans of clams in the pantry for ages ( Read more... )

SO I was going to make alfredo sauce today, whoo. Problem: A quick look in the refrigerator proved we were lacking in a handful of the ingredients that I normally use to make it. Oh dear. Not willing to give up on my delicious creamy pasta goodness, however, I improvised what I now know to be a delicious (and, when I thought about it, cheaper) ( Read more... )