Tag: Bruce Tretter
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Microwave Cooked Pasta: Fast, Easy and All in Pictures
Cooking pasta in the microwave oven is incredibly fast and easy – and works best for only 1-2 servings and for those pastas that require 6 minutes or less cooking time. Here’s all you need to make microwave cooked pasta. Tip: a wetted paper works great to minimize splatter while the pasta cooks at a…
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Pre-Ride Low Sugar, High Protein Breakfast
What’s not to be charged about? Spring weather’s finally really here. Everyday I’m on the bike I see more green sprouting, more wildlife in fields and in the air, and even some wild things like the Grafton Upton Train cutting across Old Upton Road in Grafton. Cool!
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How To Clean a Can Top – You Bet, In Pictures!
We know we need to wash our hands before handling food. We know we should rinse fresh fruits and vegetables with edible skins before preparing or eating them. But what about can tops – whether we’re taking the whole top off, like with this tuna can… …or just popping a hole in it, like…
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French Toast with a Savory Topping – All in Pictures
Yah, I know, ‘sounds weird at first – but then, wow, French toast with a savory topping? You’ll own it, especially for lunch or even dinner. Here’s all you need for ingredients, all of which look GREAT! Just click any picture on this page for a freshly revised, complete step-by-step picture book recipe.
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French Toast with Yogurt, Jam & Fresh Fruit – All in Pictures
Here’s all you need to make another energy-sustaining, fully flavorful alternative to maple syrup French toast topping with yogurt, jam, fresh fruit, and dried fruit. If you’re using leftover French toast, just do what I did with the piece of French toast you see below and give it a quick 30 second blast in the microwave…
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French Toast with Nut Butter and Jam – Easy & All in Pictures
You bet, this is easy – and darn delicious! All it takes is spreading your favorite nut butter and jam on a piece of cooked French toast either fresh out of the frying pan or warmed in the microwave to give you a topping that’s both flavorful and much more energy-sustaining that traditional maple syrup…
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Pan Cooked French Toast – All in Pictures
I don’t know about you, but I sure love the smell of butter, eggs, bread, vanilla extract and ground cinnamon cooking in the morning. Great stuff! Here’s what it takes to put together fresh pan cooked French toast. Click any picture on this page for a complete, freshly revised and more colorful step-by-step picture book…
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Oven Roasted Potatoes – Easy to Make, All in Pictures
Oven roasted potatoes are a great, less fatty but fully flavorful alternative to French fries and are darn easy to make. All it takes is a quick clean, cut, season, roast – and have at ‘em! Just a quick word about whether to peel or not to peel the potato skins. I recommend not peeling the skins…
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Easy and Safe Soft or Hard Boiled Eggs – In Pictures and Video
All right! Adios, snow – bring on spring! The weather’s getting better – yah! We’ve got a big holiday weekend ahead. Boiled eggs – either plain white or brightly colored – are gonna’ be centerpieces of kids’ dreams Saturday night and breakfast tables Sunday morning – and, yes, it takes a real man – or…