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30-Minute Meals - Rachael Ray Cookbook Question
AM wrote:
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> She is cute...
That's an understatement, IMO. 
> She had a recipe for chicken breasts marinated in balsamic with fresh
> thyme that I wrote down. When I went to buy thyme I could not find it but
> substituted with oregano. Not the same, I know but the place I was at had
> a very limited inventory of fresh herbs.
Just a brief aside: I picked up a few flowerpots (about $2 each) at Walmart,
filled them with potting soil, and bought about $6 worth of seeds for herbs
(parsley, thyme, rosemary, dill). Except for the rosemary, they grew
splendidly and I have fresh herbs when cooking. I dunno why the rosemary
never flourished; I had one seed sprout and it never grew beyond 1 1/2". 
> It was a very lucky substitution. It ended up tasting just plain
> wonderful. When I finally got to do the original recipe I didn't find it
> as good.
That's one of the things that makes me love to cook: there's so many
different ways to accomplish your goal, and almost at every step you have a
variety of choices of what you want to do. Variety is the spice
of....cooking. 
--
Darryl L. Pierce >
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"What do you care what other people think, Mr. Feynman?"
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