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• Spinach & Beef Spaghetti Pie

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  Posted by cwatkinson@iafalls.com on June 23, 2015, 3:54 p.m.

  The garden has started producing again and my first spinach salad harvested from our garden plot just made my soul and my stomach happy. 
   
  It looks like it will be a gangbuster season for spinach, so I decided to look at recipes that I could sneak a little – ok maybe a lot of spinach or Swiss chard – into.  The Farmer and the Mini Me like cooked spinach with lots of butter and a generous sprinkle of apple cider vinegar. I like it best in salads with hard boiled eggs, French dressing and a generous sprinkle of crushed ...

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• Pigs in a Blanket

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  Posted by cwatkinson@iafalls.com on June 14, 2015, 11:29 a.m.

   
  Ingredients

  1 package of eight hot dogs
  8 slices of American cheese
  8 slices of bread
  butter (softened for spreading)

  Instructions

  First spread the butter on one side of each piece of bread and place it buttered side down on a cookie sheet lined with foil.
  Now place one slice of cheese on each piece of bread.
  Now place a hot dog on each slice of bread.
  Pull each side of the bread up and secure it with a toothpick.
  Bake them in a 350 degree oven for 20 minutes.
  Let them cool for a few minutes and ...

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• Mexican Stuffed Peppers

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  Posted by cwatkinson@iafalls.com on June 11, 2015, 3:56 p.m.

  MEXICAN STUFFED PEPPERS
  When I was engaged to the Farmer Boy I lived in a tiny apartment over a stairway just a block from my job selling advertising in a farm newspaper. It had three rooms.  A kitchen with a stove that barely fit a cake pan, a bathroom where I could stand at the sink and flush the toilet or start the shower and one all-purpose room.  I slept in my all purpose room, but it had a closet that I could stand in and do a full circle without touching a wall.
   
  I loved that I could ...

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• Easy Baked Beans with Bacon

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  Posted by cwatkinson@iafalls.com on June 5, 2015, 11:30 a.m.

   
  Ingredients

  4 (15 oz.) cans of pork and beans
  1/2 cup of brown sugar
  8 strips of bacon

  Instructions

  First drain the 4 cans of beans.
  Then pour the drained beans into an 8"x 8" baking dish and top it with a 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
  Cut up the 8 slices of bacon and put them on the top of the beans.
  Now bake the casserole in a 350 degree oven for 1 hour.

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