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Atsara (Papaya Relish)

Atsara (Papaya Relish)
This sounds amazing! How long does this last in the refrigerator?

 

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Barbecued Beef Patties
Robin, Thank you for the recipe. One question: how much milk? Bob

 

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Making Sorbet Without an Ice Cream Maker?
Cheers, Yesterday, I found a recipe for sherbert that included the following: If you dont have an ice cream maker, pour into a dish and place in the freezer. Remove from freezer after 1 hour, blend well until smooth and return to freezer. I hope that this helps...

 

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Making Mexican White Cheese Dipping Sauce?
Below are two recipes for two Chile con Queso. It appears that there are two different schools on Chile con Queso where one has tomatoes and one does not so I listed both so that you can play with both recipes and find what you like best. Chile con Queso 2...

 

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Peanutty Pretzel Truffles
Thank you for sharing. My family will love these. Bob

 

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Pennsylvania Dutch Fasnacht Doughnut Recipe?
Cheers, There are a number of ways to make Fastnacht: http://berksweb.com/pam/fast.html Here are three different types that may or may not be in the above website: Faschnachts with Baking Powder Beat two eggs and ¼ teaspoon salt in a little bowl. Add 1 cup...

 

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Homemade Hamburger Helper?
I saved this article from - http://chickensintheroad.com/cooking/homemade-hamburger-helper/

 

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Homemade Bisquick Mix
This one makes a smaller batch: 1 cup flour 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon Crisco Mix dry ingredients together, then using a pastry knife cut the Crisco into the mix. Makes 1 cup Bisquick equivalent.

 

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Carrabba's Italian Lentil and Sausage Soup?
Carrabbas Sausage and Lentil Soup 1. In a large stockpot, heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Add one carrot - grated , one large onion- minced and two cloves of garlic - minced (I have added celery and/or zucchini if I have it as well). Saute until tender. 2...

 

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Making White Chocolate?
It is funny that on Monday, while making making chocolate sauce, I had the very same thought: how to make white chocolate. I never followed through with my thought so thank you for you question! I found this answer at Yahoo Answers - http://answers.yahoo.com...

 

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Chocolate Eclair Cake
You can make the chocolate icing: Icing: 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup cocoa 1/4 cup evaporated milk 1 stick butter 1 tsp vanilla 1. Combine sugar, cocoa and milk 2. Stir over heat until boiling 3. Boil for 1 minute 4. Remove from heat and add butter and vanilla (dont...

 

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Taco Soup Recipe Without Ranch Dressing?
I have a great soup that is similar but made with chicken: 2 chicken skinless (deboned) breast (you can use leftover chicken 2 cups shredded) 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil 1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 3 cups chicken broth 1 cup milk 8 oz. Velveeta...

 

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Should I Salt Meat Before or After Cooking?
Lynn, Here is a good article that explains the process - http://steamykitchen.com/163-how-to-turn-cheap-choice-steaks-into-gucci-prime-steaks.html Bob

 

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Recipes for Turkey Drumsticks?
Turkey Pot Pie 2 turkey Legs (turkey wings work as well) Garlic powder 1 bag frozen mixed vegetables 1 can cream of mushroom soup 1 can cream of chicken soup 3/4 cup skim milk 1/2 cup Miracle Whip 1/4 tsp. onion salt 1/4 tsp. pepper 1 can crescent rolls Directions...

 

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Blueberry Cake Recipe for 200 People?
Katie, I do not know about serving 200 people but I have a great blueberry cake recipe. The cake is moist and decadently rich; it is so good. BLUEBERRY CAKE: 1/3 cup plus 1/2 cup sugar 1/4 cup water 1 TBSP fresh lemon juice 1 tsp cornstarch 10 oz blueberries...

 

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Use Open Office For Free Office Software
There are tons of great freeware available like GIMP.org that can replace Photoshop. I have a list of freeware that was posted on the Clark Howard website - http://clarkhoward.com/topics/freeware.html One could always drop Windows and switch to Linux (http...

 

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Chicken Tortellini Soup
Try this one: &frac; cup butter or margarine &frac; cup all-purpose flour 3 cups chicken broth 1 cup milk 8 ounces Velveeta process cheese food ' cubed 10 oz. can RoTel brand tomatoes and chilies 2 cups cooked, shredded chicken 1 tsp. cumin 1 tsp. chili powder...

 

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Problems With Windows OS Computer at Startup?
Alice, You may want to run a scan to ensure that you do not have a virus or other nasty. There are several good freeware options: Malwarebytes - http://www.malwarebytes.org/ A2 - http://www.snapfiles.com/get/asquaredfree.html Avast! - http://www.snapfiles.com...

 

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Making Sweet Tomato Sauce?
Use Alton Browns Tomato Sauce recipe: * 2 (28-ounce) cans whole, peeled tomatoes * 1/4 cup sherry vinegar * 1 teaspoon dried oregano * 1 teaspoon dried basil * 1 onion * 1 carrot * 1 stalk celery * 2 ounces olive oil * 4 cloves garlic, minced * 1/2 cup white...

 

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Product Review: C Cleaner PC Optimization Tool
Switch to Linux (linuxmint.com) and you wont need any of those software additionally the OS and all the other applications are free as well.

 

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Pork Chop Recipes?
Apple Bacon Stuffed Pork Chops Making the Stuffing: 9 slices of bread 1 stalk of celery &frac; cup shredded carrots 2 cloves of garlic or 1 TBSP of jarred garlic 1 small onion 1 Granny-Smith apple (cored, save the core for Port-reduction sauce) 5 strips bacon...

 

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Max and Erma's Tortilla Soup Recipe?
I love Max and Ermas Tortilla Soup! Now that we moved to the beach the closest Max and Ermas is an hour away in Myrtle Beach. So here is the recipe that tastes just like the real thing. Ingredients: &frac; cup butter or margarine &frac; cup all-purpose flour...

 

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Baked Caramel Popcorn?
Thanks for everyone who has responded. The recipe that I use is as follows: * 5 quarts popped popcorn * 2 C. brown sugar * 1 C. butter * 1/2 C. corn syrup * 1 tsp salt * 1/2 tsp baking soda Bake in the oven at 250 degrees F. for 15 minutes, stir and repeat...

 

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Finding Online Schools?
Cheers, Here are some education links that I have saved over the years: Free-Tutorial-For.me www.a.freshbrain.com/solvr/ www.tutzor.com/ www.wonderhowto.com/ www.howcast.com/ realsimple.com www.wikihow.com/Main-Page www.sutree.com/ www.videojug.com/ www.hometips...

 

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Operating a Multiple CD Changer?
The manual is here - http://www.nissanusa.com/pdf/techpubs/sentra/2008/2008_Sentra_QRG.pdf The general idea is push the load button then select a slot 1 - 6 then put the cd into the player. Repeat for each cd changing the slot number.

 

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Acetone Damage on Eye Glasses?
You can get replacement prescription glasses starting at $8 (plus $4.95 per order) from - http://zennioptical.com. I have been using them for years and they are great! I have two $8 dollar pairs: one for reading and one in my car. I have two $20 pairs: one...

 

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Help For Seniors Who Need Eyeglasses?
I, also, use http://zennioptical.com. I have been using them for years and they are great! I have ordered the $8 dollar, $20 and the $40 dollar and all have been fine. The $20 frames are nice as they have the nicer hinges.

 

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Getting Rid of Spiders?
Sprinkle Diatomaceous Earth around the area where the spiders invade. You may be able to get Diatomaceous Earth (DE) at Walmart but any pool supply store should have it. DE is used in some pool filters. It is a powder and harmless to humans and animals but...

 

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Restoring Computer Without a Recovery Disk?
Why dont you make your computer run faster and without the all the virus & spyware issues? Install Linux Mint (http://www.linuxmint.com) instead of Windows. My $300 laptop (with Mint OS) boots, connects to the wireless and is ready to run in under a minute...

 

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Plastic Bag Melted onto Toaster Oven?
My wife accidentally placed bread on a hot burner on the glass top stove and the plastic melted on the burner. I made a paste from dish washer powder and let is sit over night with a damp paper towel over top. The next morning, I added some water to the paper...

 

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Advice on Buying a New Washer?
Maytag was bought out years ago, I think by Whirlpool. We bought one of the last Maytag front load washers and it was horrible as it would grow black mold all through the machine. We only had the machine a few years and had to get rid of it. We bought the high...

 

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Online Data Storage?
Here are the sites that I have saved over the years: Dropbox - www.getdropbox.com/install Hordit - www.hordit.com/ Orbitfiles - www.orbitfiles.com/ FileFactory - filefactory.com/ Free file hosting and online storage - fileden.com/ Free File Hosting - MyFreeFileHosting...

 

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Buying a Computer With Bad Credit?
Do not charge! Save up about $300 then look online (SlickDeals.net, Uberi.com, wisebread.com/bestdeals) or office supply stores (Staples, Office Depot, Office Max) in the discount bin to buy a laptop. Why only $300 dollars? Because while you are saving your...

 

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Fixing Scratches on CDs?
Florida Gal, Here are three websites that may help you fix scratches on CDs: This link shows the success of various methods of repairing a CD which concludes that Brasso is best. http://www.burningissues.net/how_to/scratchrepair/scratchrepair.htm Step by step...

 

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Adding a Bike Rack to a Pop-up Trailer?
This is one of my future projects as well. Here is a website that has all the details - http://userpages.acadia.net/chasd/bikerack.html Good luck, Bob

 

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Monthly Budget Sheet?
Mary Ann, Here is an article - http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-budgeting-help-with-simpled-budget-software-windows/ about a free software titled SimpleD Budget. Bob

 

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Tips for Using an iMac?
Antoinette, I have not used a Mac, I use Linux and Windows, but I know free open source software known as freeware. I agree with the person who reported the Google Documents (gmail) is good. I would add OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org) for a complete...

 

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Reinstalling F2 and F12 Options in Bios?
Luis, I found this article that reports to fix a similar is to your issue - http://www.detoxcomic.com/articles/upgrade-dell-5100-bios.html The download page for your pc is - http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag...

 

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Choosing the Best VoIP?
Kathleen, Hi Kathleen, I am from NC as well. I have been using VoIP for many years and I have done a lot of research on the topic. One consistent thing that I have read is Vonage has had a bad reputation for poor customer support and poor service. I started...

 

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Product Review: Save-A-Blade
I found this tip on prolonging the life of a razor blade from the Clark Howard show. Clark Howard (http://clarkhoward.com) has a national radio show and a tv show on HLN that focuses on how to Save more, spend less and avoid rip-offs. Several years ago he had...

 

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Zaxby's Dipping Sauce?
1/2 cup Hellmans mayonnaise 1/4 cup Heinz ketchup 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder 1/4 teaspoon worcestershire sauce lots of black pepper Mix together the mayo, ketchup and garlic powder blending well. Add worcestershire sauce and blend well. Cover surface of sauce...

 

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Emailed Pictures Not Working?
This link should help - http://ask-leo.com/why_dont_pictures_show_up_in_the_emails_i_send_or_receive.html

 


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