It’s a lifelong (okay adulthood anyway) quest that’s taken me to many a restaurant in search of the most delicious of crispy sweet potato fries. Easily achieved, albeit less heart healthy, when dipped in vats of boiling hot vegetable oil. It was with this realization that I let myself become defeated and settled on always […]
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Warm Spinach Artichoke Dip 1 8oz pkg cream cheese (1/2 fat) 1/3 cup sour cream (1/2 fat) 1/4 Parmesan, grated 1/4 cup Romano, grated 1/4 cup mozzarella, grated 2 cloves garlic, minced fine 1 Tbsp fresh basil, minced 1 tsp salt fresh ground pepper 1/4-1/2 tsp cayenne 1 14oz can artichoke hearts, roughly chopped 1
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Sometimes, things don’t always go as planned in my world, like that one time I caught the bus to work going in the wrong direction. I sat on that bus until there was no one left, completely embarrassed to the point of petrification. I didn’t want to ask the driver where we were actually headed,
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Well, the holidays are almost over. A few more days, one more big get together/party and we’re all going to be going back to normal. This giant tree taking my living room will be a sad new addition to our burn pile out back, the decorations will be stored away for next year, all that
Popcorn. Lovely, buttery, crunchy, melt in your mouth, popcorn. I could eat it everyday. Sadly, my thighs might begin to hate me, should I feed “the baby” popcorn everyday. There is much to say and bicker over when it comes to the creation of the perfect popped kernel. Some things to think about: What kind
I love having company over. If there’s something I love more, it’s feeding them when they get here. As we have just moved in and unpacked everything in record time, we felt the need to have people over every night last weekend. It was great fun! On one of those nights, we decided to have
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I’m a bit of a sucker when it comes to a request for a baked good. I’ll admit it. I’m a bit of a sucker when it comes to baked goods. Period. Any given moment, I am one step away from making every butter laden recipe I can get my greasy little hands on. The
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So, since I started this blog, I’ve been rummaging through every nook and cranny of my tiny kitchen, dragging out recipe box after recipe box, folders of hand scrawled, grease stained specials from numerous restaurants I’ve worked in, book after book of recipes I’ve collected from friends, family and coworkers, magazine clippings, classic cook books,
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So, some news! Currently we have been living in a smallish, strata governed, not well lit (BAD for photography), townhouse in the city. Well, after receiving a noise complaint about our poor little doggy, we have decided to move out to the sticks! How could anyone not like that face??? My current kitchen is small,
Everyone likes to dip. Just ask my son. If I put something in front of him that he doesn’t like, all I need to do is put dip next to it. At least I know he will eat the dip, if not the mode of transport that brought it to his mouth. There are a