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A recent LifeHacker thread on natural water flavoring has me thinking I should have a couple of small pots in the office, so I can grow cucumber and mint.  I’d have never thought to put a sliver of cucumber skin in my water.  Cucumber under fluorescent lighting should do fine, and mint is impossible to [...]

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Yummy recipe.

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 Delicious!

1/4 cup pineapple preserves
1/4 cup dijon mustard
2 Tablespoons tartar sauce
chopped walnuts
wheat wraps
sliced cheddar cheese
spinach leaves (if you can get ‘em, otherwise, use lettuce)
sliced roast beef
chopped green onion

Mix the pineapple preserves, dijon mustard, and tartar sauce.  Spread it on the wrap.  Slap everything else on.  Roll it up, and stick some toothpicks in it.

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Ingredients:

1 (4-5 lb) brisket
1 teaspoon steak seasoning
2 Tablespoons liquid smoke
1/3 cup Worchestershire sauce
3/4 cup barbecue sauce

Directions:
Sprinkle beef with seasoning salt. Place in a shallow dish. Pour liquid smoke and Worchestershire sauce over meat. Cover with foil and refrigerate 8 hours, turning once. Cover and bake at 300 degrees for 4 hours or until tender. Pour [...]

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The best thing about cold weather is drinking wassail.
Get a big pot.  Put in:

2 parts apple juice
1 part cranberry juice
1 part orange juice
throw in some allspice
throw in a few cinammon sticks

Heat it up, without boiling, letting it soak up the cinammon and allspice.  Lovely.

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  Here’s one of the best foods around — fried zucchini ["biologically, the zucchini is a fruit, being the swollen ovary of the zucchini flower" -- didn't know that].

Mix together some raw eggs in a big bowl.
Put some corn meal in another bowl.
Cut up your zucchini into thin slices.
Dip them in the egg.
Dip them in the corn [...]

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