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Book Review and Recipe: Complete Idiot’s Guide to Easy Freezer Meals

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Book and Recipes by Cheri Sicard

Before you can say “summer vacation”, my college student will be heading back to campus. This year she will live in her own apartment and that means cooking for herself. I will be sending her off with The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Easy Freezer Meals because the entire concept of cooking once and freezing portions makes such good sense. And, duh– the book explains it all — in E-Z steps!

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Strawberry Salad with Goat Cheese

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The California Strawberry Commission Recipe E-Book has so many mouth watering recipes, I wish I had my own field. Fortunately, it’s strawberry season and the radiant red berries are abundant in grocery stores.

Sensational Strawberry Salad
Sensational Strawberry Salad

Inside Strawberry Recipes for Every Day, I found a recipe for ‘Macadamia Crusted Halibut with grilled Strawberry and Mint Relish’ which looked perfect for a summer meal, but I’m the only one around who eats halibut.  Therefore, I choose a salad. By the way, the book also includes tips for buying, storing and freezing the fruit.

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Oysters in Apalachicola, Florida

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Raw Oysters from Apalachicola Bay
Raw Oysters from Apalachicola Bay

The maritime town of Apalachicola, on the Florida panhandle, 80 miles southwest of Tallahassee, produces 90 percent of the oysters consumed in the state of Florida and 10 percent of the national bounty. Pretty amazing for a mere population of 11,500.

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