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Anyone who is a home cook has been in this situation: need to make a meal for the family, not in the mood to cook, don't want to order take out or go to a restaurant, have no clue what to prepare. You look in the freezer, the refrigerator, the pantry and think if you should tear your hair out or just serve cereal with milk. Breathe in...breathe out...breathe in...breathe out...calm...calm...now think. Suddenly you see an item in the freezer and remember another one from the pantry; yes, they'll work together, but what else? Back to the refrigerator, oh my, what you just found that would compliment the other two ingredients; the next thing you know, you have five ingredients sitting on the counter and a recipe formulating in your…
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