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Kielbasa and Cabbage

It's that time of the year when you're starting to run out of variety in the garden.  This week I harvested the last of the items before I start to get ready for fall.  I got five heads of red cabbage and about half a bucket of carrots.  The carrots I'm planning on freezing, but what can I do with red cabbage?  This is where one of my favorite kitchen gadgets comes into play.  I love my electric pressure cooker!

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Slow Cooker Chicken Creole

The stewed tomatoes and jalapeno pepper give this slow cooker recipe its Creole zing, along with seasoning and other veggies. This is an easy and tasty Creole chicken recipe. Just put all ingredients into the slow cooker and let it simmer all day. It's perfect over egg noodles. Add extra water and veggies to the leftovers to make a tasty afternoon soup.

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Cooking With Cicadas

Most experts agree that cicadas are a rich source of protein with about the same amount per pound as red meat. Cicadas are also said to be full of vitamins and minerals, low in fat, and they have zero carbs. So why aren’t more people eating them? Maybe because the thought of eating a bug makes you dry-heave!? But if you think about it, shrimp and crawfish are pretty much cicadas without wings. In fact, crawfish, lobster, crabs, shrimp, and insects are all part of the same biological phylum of arthropods.

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