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  1. VanIsle

    Chicken Recipes

    This is my husband's favourite chicken (even though it may not be the healthiest way to eat it and I only make it for him a couple of times a year) Add about 1.5 cups flour to an empty plastic bread bag To that add (to taste) about 1 TBSP (or so) of Lawry's Seasoning Salt +...
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    Moldie oldies

    I hope this works It's a Juke Box! Click on any year and a Juke Box pops up with 20 hits of that year! 40's JuKeBoX 1955 JuKeBoX 1956 JuKeBoX 1957 JuKeBoX 1958 JuKeBoX 1959 JuKeBoX 1960 JuKeBoX 1961 JuKeBoX 1962 JuKeBoX 1963 JuKeBoX 1964 JuKeBoX 1965 JuKeBoX 1966 JuKeBoX 1967...
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    Canadian Content "Report Cards"

    I'm sure I am not alone in our little green line report card "dilema". I use the word dilema for lack of something better right now. First of all - until quite recently, I totally forgot they existed. Pretty much everyone has them so viewing the green lines below our names is something I do not...
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    Ei reforms

    TORONTO - Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff sent his clearest signal yet that an election may be imminent if Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his minority government fail to reform Employment Insurance by the summer. "My party wants to get Mr. Harper to make some constructive changes on EI...
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    Signs of recovery appearing, but not in Canada

    Signs of recovery appearing, but not yet in Canada, says OECD at 16:13 on May 11, 2009, EDT. Julian Beltrame, THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - Several of the world's leading economies appear poised to emerge from the most severe global downturn in decades but Canada is not yet among them, says a...
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    Breads

    I tried a new bread today. For nearly two years I have been selling people these little miniature loafs of bread and quite frankly, wondering why anyone would buy them. They looked like some hard dried up little loaf. However, we sell so many of them that I decided I would try to remember to...
  7. VanIsle

    Pot Luck blues...

    I really like moose roast but not the ground moose. Just doesn't do it for me.
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    Pot Luck blues...

    I don't know if you are considering a soup recipe or not but I have taken this to many pot luck dinners and actually watched the women cleaning the pot, literally lick the pot clean. This recipe was made up by my son so if someone tells you they already have it - they got it from a friend of a...
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    The best beef roast and how to cook it

    Hi Juan, I did go to the store today. I was kind of right and kind of wrong. The jar is 8 oz size. The price is (oh - I hate to tell you this) -it's $8.29 so it's even gone up since I looked at it such a brief time ago. On the brighter side, they do have the 16 pack size of Bovril on sale for 2...
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    The best beef roast and how to cook it

    When did you buy it last? I just noticed the price you've quoted. Maybe I'm wrong but I'm reasonably sure that the jar you describe (and I know it's the same product) was over $7.00 or very near that price. If I go to the store today I'll have to check that out. Prices of everything have gone...
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    The best beef roast and how to cook it

    We still sell lots of oxo and Bovril. We also sell the "Better than Bouillon". It is a little pricey - around $7.00 for a very small bottle of it. I was putting some spices out when a mother/daughter team came by one day. The daughter was extremely upset because we didn't have vegetarian oxo. I...
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    The best beef roast and how to cook it

    S.O.M. sells the outside round for a good price. We usually only buy it when it's on sale. The packaging looks awful because it is quite filled with blood. I know - sounds gross. Everytime those went through my till I used to wonder why anyone would buy one. They seem to have reduced the amt. of...
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    Yorkshire Pudding

    Juan, I gave up trying to make good YP years ago. If I ever make it which is maybe once every 5 years or so, I use the package stuff and even then it looks about like how you described yours. My husband loves YP so, I copied and pasted and sent it to his computer. Now he can try. :-)
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    Private-clinic testing questioned

    Screening scans pose risk, UVic study shows Pamela FayermanVancouver Sun Thursday, April 23, 2009 Health consumers are largely naive about radiation and other risks that come with full-body and other screening tests marketed by private clinics, a University of Victoria health policy...
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    B of C Cuts Rates to lowest level

    If you have investments, this may not be what you want to hear. If you are buying a house it may be just what you have been waiting for. I admit I have not read the whole article (it's pretty long)so I am assuming that the other banks have not followed suit yet and if they go the way they have...
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    SPECIAL RENDITION of "STAND BY ME"

    I think this is kind of neat! Below is a link to one of the best pieces of sound engineering work I think I have seen. It is a composite audio/video of song whereby additional tracks were laid in by different singers and musicians from different places around the world. The finished product is...
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    How many here have beef fondue occasionally?

    Juan, I think we are giving away our age! Both our kids are also married and have kids of their own (thankfully, they all live here too).
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    How many here have beef fondue occasionally?

    Since none of us fondue on a frequent basis, couldn't you just use olive oil? Still oil but at least it's a healthy oil. Kids don't need to cook their own food in the fondue to enjoy it. We fondued every New Year's Eve for years and our kids loved it. Now they are starting the same tradition...
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    How many here have beef fondue occasionally?

    Fondue meat etc. is cooked on fondue forks. Kabobs and souvlaki are "stick" meals or wooden skewers.
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    How many here have beef fondue occasionally?

    Oil fondue is great because you can do nearly all things with it. Instead of a separate cheese fondue, you can make things like a beer batter and dunk your cheese into the batter and then into the hot oil. We have cut up trays of cheese squares, beef steak, chicken and even vegetables and...