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Breakstone’s Holiday Showdown – The Recap

December 13, 2011

I hope you’ve enjoyed my take on a holiday meal over the past few weeks.  I started off the Breakstone’s Holiday Showdown by sharing an appetizer of Creamy Pumpkin Soup Shooters. For the main dish, we enjoyed a savory salmon with a herb cream sauce. Our dessert was a tasty baked apple brulee. I enjoy [...]

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Mom’s Cooking {Recipe: Oven Baked Kale Chips}

April 25, 2011

My mom is an excellent cook but there were times in my life I would think that maybe she wasn’t so much. Like when she would make liver and onions. Or how about white sandwich bread with white hamburger gravy poured over it? I want to gag just thinking about it. We lived in a [...]

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Easter Holiday Wrap Up with Breakstone’s Sour Cream

April 18, 2011

I’ve had such a great time preparing for Easter with Breakstone’s sour cream and Better Homes and Gardens. The tablescape is ready, the Pepper Crusted Pork Loin with Sour Cream and Onion Sauce has been tried and tested and we have our normal Easter traditions planned out for the weekend. When I was little, I [...]

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Easter Brunch and Triple Chocolate Cookies

April 7, 2011

You know there’s something wrong when you get a plate of these Triple Chocolate Cookies in front of you and the last thing you really want to do is eat one. That’s how things have been for me around here lately. I’ve been under the weather since a week ago Thursday. I went to the [...]

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Mathematics {Recipe: Breakfast Oatmeal Pie}

March 14, 2011

Today is pi day…3.14. Since I am a food blogger, I am going to join the masses of others who turn this mathematics focused day into something food related. Pie day. Pie is much more fun than the actual math related pi, don’t you think? In all honesty, math is not my strong suit. In [...]

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Being Irish {Recipe: St. Patrick’s Day Grasshopper Cocktails}

March 10, 2011

I’m not Irish, however I married a full-blown Irish man, so that makes me what they call “Irish by Marriage”. What I have found out, through my 11 years of marriage to an Irish man, is that once you are “in” with the Irish, your entire life starts to become very Irish. Green suddenly becomes [...]

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A Pasta Discovery {Recipe: Rustic Baked Rigatoni}

February 25, 2011

I know… I know… stop talking about the darn homemade pasta, right? I’m sorry! I just can’t help it. When I made homemade pasta for the first time last week, it was kind of a moment for me. I looked back at my Hamburger Helper days many moons ago and marveled at how far I [...]

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Mall Food (Recipe: Homemade Pretzel Bites)

February 22, 2011

I have a confession to make. I love mall food court food… There, I said it. Do you think less of me now? I understand if you do… truly… guess we won’t be hanging out at the mall together anytime soon then, which is a bummer. I bribe my kids to be good at the [...]

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Making Homemade Fresh Pasta Noodles

February 21, 2011

Several months ago, my husband gave me the gift of a KitchenAid pasta maker attachment. To be honest with you, I was excited, but a little intimidated. I’m not sure why, but making your own pasta just seemed like it would be quite the process. I’ve made my moms homemade egg noodles for her delicious [...]

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The Banana and Biscuit Dilemma (Recipe: Banana Buttermilk Biscuits)

February 18, 2011

What’s a mom to do? You have one kid who wants buttermilk biscuits for breakfast. Another kiddo wants banana muffins for breakfast. One, doesn’t care what you have as long as she gets to nibble on the dough… What I decided to do was give my kids the best of both worlds. Plenty of dough [...]

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