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Ellen Barker

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Spice Water

Submitted to Contest #174

The night of the biggest mistake of my life, I was trying to make dinner. I had pulled out my cook book as I searched for the recipe for chicken cacciatore. I discovered I was missing two ingredients, so I decided to look to see if there was anything I could substitute.Unfortunately, when the two missing ingredients are chicken and peppers, it pretty well destroys the chances of making anything with chicken for dinner. Oh, well.I scrounged up some vegetables and made a soup, instead. It was not as fulfilling, but definitely more doable. In e...

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