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Vegetable Stock 101

Vegetable Stock 101 Follow these guide lines to make delicious home made vegetable stock. o    The amount water you use will depend on how much vegetable stock you need. o    According to The Joy of Cooking 5 cups of vegetables to 6 cups vegetables makes about 3 to 4 cups of stock.  My feeling is that you should [...]
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Quick Stock

When a recipe calls for water or stock, it almost always tastes better made with the stock.  I make this quick vegetable stock when I have 20 to 40 minutes of cooking time before I need to add the stock. The idea is that you use the trimmings from the vegetables that you would be [...]
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A Revolution in Sandwich

The arctic sandwich is not what I would call arctic.  But I would call it yummy, because it is.  This was all Tony’s idea. I might have said it would never work, except he wouldn’t tell me what he was doing.  I was not allowed to know what ingredients he purchased for the arctic sandwich, [...]
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