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Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies
I first started making these cookies before I could drive. My neighbors would get excited about these cookies. I wooed my husband in college by baking these cookies. All this was before the days of realizing that trans fats were terrible and that shortening isn’t really a product I want to use [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Warm Garbanzo & Quinoa Salad
This is a recipe I found in Women’s Health magazine. The original recipe calls for putting the warm quinoa/garbanzo/veggie mixture on top of fresh spinach, but I decided that I preferred to wilt the spinach into the mixture. It makes it easier to eat and the spinach gets the flavoring of the dressing [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Carrot Cake Truffle
A while ago I made oreo truffles. This made me realize that I’m really bad at dipping chocolates. But it didn’t matter, because they tasted great.
And then for Easter I made a mini carrot cake. This made me realize that I’ve watched too many episodes of Ace of Cakes as I tried [...]
Tuscan Chicken Pasta
This is something that I posted on my main blog a while ago, but since we just had it for dinner again tonight, the point of my kitchen blog is to store recipes, and it tastes really good; it earned a re-posting!
This recipe came from Men’s Health magazine. My husband flagged it as one [...]
Waffling
We have been looking for a new waffle iron for some time now. Our previous one just wasn’t performing satisfactorily. Unfortunately it was a replacement for another model that also didn’t work all that well. Since we had two sub-par waffle irons, we wanted to research carefully and try to find one [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Fruity-Nutty Oatmeal (Take Two)
A while ago I made a recipe for oatmeal that contained apples, cranberries and raisins. It was tasty, but my husband wasn’t overly impressed and I thought that we could improve upon the base recipe.
Since my husband prefers steel-cut oats (or irish oats) to rolled oats, my first step was to change [...]
Salmon and Herb Penne
Tonight’s dinner was yet another recipe found in Prevention magazine. I realized that I was out of garlic when I started making this… Whoops. I tried to cheat by using garlic-infused grapeseed oil instead of the olive oil & garlic. I don’t think it was as flavorful this way as it should [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Spinach, Bacon Macaroni & Cheese
The other night we were watching Iron Chef America and the secret ingredient was spinach. Bobby Flay made a macaroni and cheese dish with spinach and bacon. My husband commented, “Why don’t we have more food with cheese and bacon in it? We should have more cheese and bacon dishes.”
So, I took [...]
Oreo Truffle
For some reason, I thought that I should attempt to make these awesome Oreo truffles that I saw on Bakerella’s site. Here’s what I learned from the process:
- Using Trader Joe’s Candy Cane Joe-Joe’s instead of Oreos are a great substitute so you don’t have as many weird chemical ingredients, plus they add a [...]
Grilled Portobello Burger
The Ingredients:
4 sm portobello mushroom caps (8 oz total), stems removed
4 tsp balsamic vinegar
2 jarred roasted red pepper halves
2 Tbsp pesto
2 wedges Laughing Cow Light Swiss cheese
baby spinach (or field greens)
2 whole wheat hamburger buns or 1 whole wheat pita, split
The Instructions:
1. PREHEAT grill pan over medium heat. Grill mushrooms 8 minutes, turning halfway through [...]
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