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Growing up my mother would make strawberry shortcake for desert in the hot summer months.   I used to love it when she would make it because she always had the right amount of strawberries, short cake and ice cream.  That usually entailed drowning my cake in ice cream and berries.     All these many years later, I make this same desert for my boys.     It’s still my favorite desert. I craved it with all 4 of my pregnancies.   It has four simple ingredients: 1.   Strawberries (duh) 2.  Graduated sugar 3.  Short bread 4.  Vanilla ice cream. Now I’ve seenRead More →

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It was a lazy Sunday.  With not much going on, I decided to cook the ultimate dinner for my family.   I wanted something easy (my go to blackened salmon and garlic bread) and something so delicious and good that I would take it to work on Monday for lunch and enjoy every bite.   That something so delicious was Crawfish Baked Potato (http://acadianatable.com/2015/04/20/crawfish-baked-potato/).  Now, given I live in Southern California, crawfish is a little hard to come by.  However, an acceptable substitute is crab, which I always have in ample supply in my pantry.  I love me some potatoes and I love me some crab –Read More →

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Hi Floggers!  Great news to report.  As you know, I’m tired of my old crockpot.  Don’t get me wrong, it served me well – very well, indeed.  Okay, I loved it.  But, it was time to move on to something bigger and better.  After a little research, I landed on the Black + Decker Portable Digital Slow Cooker model SCD4007.   I liked all of the features. It needed a timer. Check!  It needed to be bigger.  Check!  And, it needed to be reliable.  Check!  So, I took the plunge.  I’ve never been happier. Of course, who doesn’t love, love, love getting boxes from Amazon?  IRead More →

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One of my favorite things to do is to look at cook books.  Yes, actual real life paper books.  This recipe is from my Slow Cooker Bible (https://www.amazon.com/The-Slow-Cooker-Bible/dp/1412727790) cookbook.   I wanted a clam chowder recipe that was simple and had ingredients that we can easily have on hand and in the pantry.   I looked at many slow cooker clam chowder recipes on Pinterest.com and all the other recipes had more ingredients than this one.   I liked this recipe because it incorpora ted a lot of canned goods, like soup, evaporated milk and creamed corn.  This recipe can be easily stored in your pantry and madeRead More →