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Cheater Chipotle Cheddar Latkes

Cheater Chipotle Cheddar Latkes: A great miracle happened here, because these are sooo good — without the knuckle-scraping authenticity of traditional latkes, but with the added kick of cheddar cheese and chipotle peppers! Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch: Chanukah edition! It’s no longer Sunday, true, but luckily for all of …

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Parsley Pesto Pasta with Tomatoes, Mushrooms, and Spinach

Welcome to the October 4, 2015 edition of Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients This week we’re cooking around fall garden produce and free Barilla Pronto Pasta from a Target deal a couple weeks ago — so, technically, this is actually Parsley Pesto Pronto Pasta. It’s just too …

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Grilled Cauliflower Steaks

Welcome to the July 5th edition of Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around sales and affordable ingredients. Our next mystery sale ingredient is: Cauliflower, since we’ve seen a lot of great prices on this lately! And because, it’s so good when you grill or roast or otherwise bring out its inherent nutty sweetness. …

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Portobello-Arugula Naan Pizza

Welcome back to the June 14th edition of Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable foods. This week portobellos and organic baby arugula were on sale: Two great tastes that go great together in… some fresh and flavorful Portobello-Arugula Naan Pizza! I’m on an ongoing portobello kick over here, but in …

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Portobello Egg Cups — and some thoughts on Pinterest

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery store matchups, coupons, and sales. This week Jewel again had portobellos on sale for $.45 each — love this sale! We grilled up a few portobellos last Wednesday, more again yesterday for our Memorial Day BBQ, and I’ve been using the leftover grilled …

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Gluten Free Dairy Free Banana Pancakes

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week bananas are again on sale all over town (and hey, let’s admit it: As fruits go, they’re pretty cheap to begin with!). Last week Mr. 8 and I scratched up some delicious (yet not allergy friendly) Kid-Friendly …

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