• countdown to new year’s: mimosa bar;

    January 1, 2016

    The mimosa bar for our New Year’s Eve Countdown Bash came out super cute!  I decided that four was the perfect number: four fruits, four juices, four champagnes! Champagne Now we decided to use Andre as the champagne.  It’s not classy,…

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  • countdown to new years: matcha shortbread cookies;

    December 30, 2015

    So today was a flurry of shopping, baking, and cooking!  I’m exhausted but excited.  It was lucky that I took the day off from work so I had enough time to do everything that needed to be done for our…

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  • crab mac ‘n cheese; roasted caesar broccoli;

    December 28, 2015

    If you’ve clicked this link you’ve got good taste.  I’m just putting that up front!  This recipe was born from a grocery store sale!  I love those.  Browsing ads for some great deals helps me to narrow down what I…

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  • philly cheesesteak egg rolls;

    December 22, 2015

    So you might have noticed something:  I like using egg roll and wonton wrappers for things other than Asian foods.  My mom did teach me how to make wontons growing up so you’ll have to look out for when I…

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  • cake batter truffles;

    December 16, 2015

    So here comes the wonderful-ness of cake batter and chocolate.  Seriously, who needs an oven?  Basically this is cake batter cookie dough wrapped in the sweet shell of chocolate. I made these truffles for a co-worker’s birthday.  He really wanted…

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  • bloomin’ baked apples;

    December 10, 2015

    So let’s go with:  I’m going to whip these out again one day and impress someone.  They look amazing.  They taste even more amazing.  And you can pretend that they’re healthy (they’re not).  I did forget to add that extra…

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  • caesar chicken tortellini;

    December 9, 2015

    This past week was a struggle.  Actually, all (two) weeks since Thanksgiving.  Even with the Hello Fresh meals eliminating some meal planning and grocery shopping, I’ve felt like a crazy person.  Just this past weekend there was our company holiday…

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  • garlic monkey bread;

    December 7, 2015

    So we made individual garlic monkey breads as a quick side to caesar chicken tortellini the other other night!  They were quite tasty, and simple to boot, considering I pretty much always have some biscuit dough floating around in my…

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  • first hello fresh meal: dijon walnut salmon & couscous;

    December 2, 2015

    So a friend sent me a Hello Fresh discount code for 1/2 off a week’s delivery and I forgot about it for months until I got a reminder e-mail from Hello Fresh (guess those reminder e-mails do work!).  And it…

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  • baked southwest egg rolls;

    November 19, 2015

    I’ve been on a health kick.  Trying not to overeat and trying to make healthier choices.  But foooooood is so yum, it’s hard.  BuI found these baked southwest egg rolls and thought they’d be super tasty!  With some salsa and…

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  • cake batter chocolate chip cookies;

    November 18, 2015

    These are yum and fun to pull out!  I found that the recipe I used (see below) was actually a bit sweet, and judging by my taste-test of the batter, I think the cookies lost some of their cake-batter-ness with…

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  • stuffed pizza rolls;

    November 16, 2015

    I’ve been cooking up a storm lately, so we’ve been eating leftovers out the wahzoo.  They’re delicious, but they impede my cooking because I don’t want to waste food!  So I made pot pie filling the other day for an…

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