recipe

{ easy chicken tacos }

January 29, 2013

Remember how I said that my idea of cooking is picking up takeout or eating ice cream? Yeah, that’s pretty much true. If I do cook, it’s something that I feel confident I won’t screw up. So for other amateur chefs out there, I figured I share my go-to weekday recipe [though, be warned, I [...]

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Life Changing Guacamole

January 15, 2013

I may have mentioned here and there and on twitter about something that has changed my life: My husband’s guacamole. Life. Changing. It beats Chipotles’ guacamole, hands down. Something this good deserves to be shared with the world [as long as I'm not personally sharing my guacamole! I've been known to eat quite a bit [...]

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A Valentines Day Treat!

February 14, 2012

My Pinterest obsession strikes again. This time in the form of Cake Batter Rice Krispy Treats. They are delicious. And definitely a great Valentine’s Day treat! Cake Batter Rice Krispy Treats Recipe: Ingredients: 3 Tbsp of butter 1 (10 oz) bag of mini marshmallows 1/2 Cup of dry yellow cake mix 6 Cups of Rice [...]

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sugar cookies.

December 21, 2010

Sunday I baked my little heart out, so obviously I have a new cookie recipe to share with you. Before we get started I’m going to advise you of something: if you want to keep your sanity, do not double this recipe. I had to learn the hard way. This recipe was supposed to yield [...]

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my mom’s cut-out cookie recipe.

December 16, 2010

Every year as a child, our house would be full of baked goods from Thanksgiving through New Years. My mother is a baker. She always has been. And since before I can remember, I’ve been her little apprentice! So this year I finally asked my mom for her christmas cut-out cookie recipe. This is the [...]

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cookie recipe: rugelach

December 14, 2010

Rugelach, my favorite, fluffy, jam-filled pastry, is a lot harder to pronounce than it is to actually make. I found this recipe on RealSimple.com. Ingredients: 6 Tablespoons of granulated sugar 2 15-ounce packages of refrigerated pie crusts 2/3 cup of jam (flavor of your choice) Directions: 1. Heat the oven to 400 degrees. 2. Sprinkle [...]

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the easiest dinner recipe. ever.

December 10, 2010

I know I don’t cook a lot. And I know a lot of you do. And I feel like I’m late to this whole “slow cookers save the world” party… But I guess I didn’t realize that slow cookers, well… save the world. Like, for real. Yeah, I know. I should have already known this. [...]

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fabulous oatmeal cookies.

December 7, 2010

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this in the past, but I come from a baking family. My mother is a baker. She has been since before I was born. Wedding cakes, graduation cakes, cookies, cannolis {yum!}. You name it. She bakes them. I attribute this to my love of baking. Make me cook dinner, [...]

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(mis)adventures in cooking.

November 18, 2010

I’ve been cooking and our house is still standing. Not only have I not burned down the kitchen, but the food that I made tasted good enough to eat! I recently decided to try a creative meatball recipe. In my recent past {college through present day}, meatballs, to me, were something from the freezer section [...]

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recipe: zuppa toscana

July 20, 2009

Since I have had so many requests, here is the recipe to the Zuppa Toscana that BF and I cooked up last night! Ingredients: 1 lb of spicy Italian sausage 2 large baking potatoes (cut in half and then sliced into thin pieces) 1 large onion, chopped 1 cup of bacon bits 2 cloves of [...]