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Noodling Around It's been a long time since I've given this blog any attention. Honestly, I hate to admit it, but the main reason was because I couldn't FIND the thing! I just converted the publishing tools from Blogger to Google+. I don't really know anyone who regularly uses Google+, but I'm tied into Android via my DROID phone and Kindle Fire, so at least it's an interface that I can access easily from several sources. Okay, back to cooking: it's all about noodles around here right now. For the past several weeks, my husband Jeff and I have had the pleasure of having my best friend from childhood join us for dinner on Monday evenings. She lives almost 100 miles from us, so it was a real treat to get to see her so often during the past month. Her visits motivated us to clean our condo and to kick the cooking up a few notches. On my friend's first Monday night visit, we had chicken and noodles made with canned chicken broth and leftover chicken th...

Monkey See Monkey Bakes Quiche My husband Jeff and I are on vacation this week. We've been eating out almost every evening; however, we watched Throwdown! with Bobby Flay on the Food Network this afternoon. Bobby and a restaurant owner were competing over "manly quiches," and we decided to stay home and have quiche ourselves tonight. Now, I'm not even going to touch that whole Real Men Don't Eat Quiche thing. That's so 1980's, and I'm not going to claim that the quiche I whipped up was "manly" in any way. Here's my gender neutral quiche recipe that my my man gobbled up eagerly: Spicy Sausage Quiche 1 refrigerated pie crust (or whip one up yourself if you've got the gumption) 1/2 lb. hot sausage, such as Jimmy Dean Premium Pork Hot Sausage 8 oz. grated Swiss cheese 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 4 eggs 1 1/2 cups half and half 1/4 cup chopped onion 1 teaspoon seasoned salt, such as Lawry's 1. Heat oven to 350 F. ...