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Cheap Bastid Writes a Book Report: “Cooked” by Michael Pollan

OK, get this low-pitched, hoarse sounding baritone voice in your head.  It’s saying: “In a world…” Yep, in a world full of cookbooks and magazines featuring food and fantastic photos, why would some goofy Cheap Bastid of a foodblogger write … Continue reading

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Cheap Bastid Does Fair Food

Sometimes you gotta have a plan.  That’s what we had when we decided that yesterday (June 11) was the day we were going to the San Diego County Fair (except many of us still call it the Del Mar Fair). … Continue reading

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Incredible Enchiladas

The best enchiladas I’ve ever had came from a place called Sadies in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  This iconic restaurant is big and every night it’s a hopping place.  New Mexico style enchiladas are “stacked” rather than rolled with an enchilada … Continue reading

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Holiday Baked Sweet Potatoes

One of my “secrets” is that I’ve come to really love sweet potatoes.  So many people make them once or twice a year at Thanksgiving or Christmas.  I’ve gotten to the point where I make them a dozen or more … Continue reading

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“Mushroom Soupless” Holiday Green Bean Casserole

Garrison Keillor has often included references to Cream of Mushroom soup in his monologues about Lake Wobegon on “A Prairie Home Companion”.  According to him, Cream of Mushroom soup is one of the things that Scandinavian Lutherans and Germanic Catholics … Continue reading

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