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Copycat Chili Garlic Sauce -- Mine is spicier!

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, weekly recipes from scratch around what's on sale at the grocery store... or what's ripe in the garden. Today: Copycat Chili Garlic Sauce! So you know how the people near the Sriracha factory were suing to shut it down a while back because of its eye watering odor? Well, rair …

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Easy Garlic Roasted Artichokes

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your source for recipes from scratch around weekly sales and affordable ingredients. Earlier this week, my local produce store had artichokes on sale three for $1.00. I rarely buy fresh artichokes, but certainly could not pass that up, right? On the rare occasions I do buy artichokes, I usually just …

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Dairy Free Chocolate Avocado Pudding

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, bringing you recipes from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week avocados have been on sale, and you need just one avocado (and a mere four ingredients) to make yourself two nice servings of Dairy Free Chocolate Avocado Pudding! At least it looked like two nice servings, not …

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Garden Ice Cubes -- How to freeze pesto, How to freeze herbs!

So today's Sunday Scratchups is less a recipe than a how-to, in case your garden is also going nuts producing basil, oregano, and more fresh herbs. This week I started freezing both fresh herbs and pesto in ice cube trays for easy meals and seasonings later, so thought I'd share the process of how to …

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Easy Caprese Salad With Spinach -- Plus Salad Bar Saturday!

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups (yes it is indeed Monday -- time got away from me!), your weekly source for recipes from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week we saw some lovely seasonal sales on mozzarella. My garden tomatoes are still just barely starting to ripen, but tomatoes on the vine are …

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