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[Stovetop] Pourable Hard Candy

For The Offspring's birthday party, we have a mold with 2 of every letter that is meant to be filled with melted chocolate, my guess. We do outdoor birthday parties and the birthday is in late July, so melted chocolate would be melted chocolate still. And so instead, we pour hard candy over the mold and get hard candy letters. They don't melt in the summer heat.

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[baking] Minimal Effort Blueberry Pie

My no-fail blueberry pie is the perfect balance of sweet, tangy, and comforting — all without the hassle of a top crust.

See the notes section at the end of this recipe for the simple substitutions one needs to make this vegan.

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[in progress] Olive Oil Biscuits

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[Sun Oven] Burrito Bowls & Lentil Sloppy Joes for Camping

It was during the pandemic, stuck at home and with an itchy brain, that I was watching some continuing education content from Appalachian State University in my good old home state of North Carolina, and there was an excellent hour-long lecture (click me to watch) on sustainable cooking using solar. I am cheap frugal, I like sustainability, and I like food. This all seemed like a win-win-win, plus I like to camp so this style of cooking could go camping with me and eliminate my low-key resource-anxiety (like range-anxiety, but for propane).

Through the magic of finding the right influencer for a product I already decided to purchase, I found some sort of sponsorship deal or special to make owning the All American Sun Oven, which I had settled on, more affordable. It was the pandemic. I was sitting at home anyway. So I bought one.

But then the question of what to cook came up. A Sun Oven without recipes is just a gadget and not a tool.

It turns out that in addition to being able to bake anything which can bake at lower temperatures in an oven - my Sun Oven never reports being above 300F and for planning purposes should be considered to be 250F, and that's in full sun at the beach - it can also cook any recipes that could otherwise be cooked in a slow cooker/crockpot.

Bingo.

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The Truth About Cooking on a Budget

The internet is wonderful tool for sharing information. It can be especially helpful in finding great budget options for stretching a dollar, especially with food. You found your way here, didn't you?

But the internet is also a place of fantasy. And a lot of times the budget recipes you might encounter, unless you already have the same capsule kitchen as the influencer, social media personality, blogger, or recipe developer, doesn't always mean a savings over buying that dish from a restaurant. This is why...

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