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Mock Hot Blue Berry Pie Ala mode

Mock Hot Blue Berry Pie Ala mode 2 Blue Berry Pop Tart or Toaster Strudel (I prefer the Toaster Strudel) 2 Scoops Vanilla Ice Cream (OK three or  four scoops, who am I kidding) Break the Blue Berry Pop Tart into a microwave safe bowl and zap for 30 seconds (microwaves vary so you may […]

Popular on Instructables

Hey my Step by Step Instructable “How to Roll Egg Rolls” just became popular on Instructables! That means that tons of people are checking out my Step by Step Instructable and telling us they really like it. How to roll Egg Rolls

Pinterest Image Orientation Problems

Hey, I have solved the Pinterest image orientation problem! I pinned these two images from my Chef Benwa Cooking Blog. The one on the left is landscape the one on the right is portrait This fix will work if you are pinning your own images. The problem is is that along with the image file […]

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Tired of Wasting Food!!

For some reason, either from cooking in a restaurant or coming from a big family I always seem to make way too much food. After throwing away yet another left-over batch of  taco meat, I was determined to find a way to save my meat, and other cooked foods too. It was about a 3/4 of […]

Wheat Free Quiche

Wheat free quiche you say,  how can that be? Well it is actually pretty easy. Instead of a flour crust I used shredded hash brown potatoes. Since this was a hash brown potato crust quiche I decided to stay with the  breakfast theme and used sausage for the meat and Colby-Jack cheese. Otherwise the ingredients are the same […]

Make S’mores Inside Your PC

You heard me right! David Murphy, of PCWorld must have been really board or as hard up for material as I am. He used an old PC for some heat, some aluminum foil for a pan and software for his temperature control knob. and voilà PC S’mores! Well there was a bit more to it […]

Finally Bought a Decent Slicer

I usually cook at my day job, I’m technically the IT Manager/Web Developer. Some how, usually during the interview process, they find out that I previously was  a chef for 20 years. So I become the resident chef where ever I am working. My current boss has taken to purchasing whole New York Strips and […]

OK! It’s Back to Work on the Chef Benwa Cooks Blog

As most of you have noticed I took a little hiatus form writing the Chef Benwa Cooks Blog. Well vacation is over, it back to work and work I will. The plan is to do two post a week. At least one recipe a week and some other post of interesting information or some other […]

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