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We loved this pasta dish.  Even my two boys loved it and ate a ton.  Even my pickiest eater!  He thought the greens were parsley and said they didn't taste like anything.  (That's a good thing, coming from him!)  The photo above is of the leftovers, so you can't really see how creamy it was.  The photo below is of the night I made it (but the lighting is bad).  We had this with grilled chicken

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Today is Peanut Butter Day!!  I made these last week but haven't gotten around to posting them yet- but now I have to!  :)  Ok, so these are bars, not really "cups", but that doesn't matter.  I posted this similar recipe back in 2009, and I mentioned, back then, that I wanted to try my mom's recipe but didn't have enough peanut butter on hand.  Well, I recently stocked up.  And then, someone left

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Quinoa is a healthy, grain-like superfood.  It is a complete protein, which is pretty cool, since it is a plant.  It's also full of vitamins, minerals, and our good friend fiber.  :)  Quinoa is really, really good for you.  The ancient Incas grew it, and to them it was a sacred grain; they called it "Mother of all grains".  You pronounce it "keen-wa" (thanks, Bob's Red Mill package!)  And, I can

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My good friend came over to show me how to make Folhadas the other day.  These are my daughter's favorite treats to get at Pastelerias over here.  I mention them in this post from a few years ago.  Sweet frosting or filling is sandwiched between sheets of puff pastry, and dusted with powdered sugar.  And they couldn't be easier to make!  Directly translated, "Folhada" just means "Puff".  Puff

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I'm always up for trying new Tomato Soup recipes.  We had grilled cheese for dinner and I tried this new recipe to go with it.  The soup was super thick, but you could always thin it down with some milk or broth.  I wanted this to go further, so I doubled the tomatoes.  I was able to try San Marzano tomatoes for the first time (I can buy those here- yay!) Obviously, this soup contains roasted

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I haven't made a new dinner recipe since December (last year! hardy-har har) and we've just been having our tried-and-true favorites every night (see sidebar on right), with a grilled cheese thrown in for good measure every once in a while.  I made these waffles forever ago; I'm thinking circa the end of November.  There were so many things to blog about last month, though, that I never got

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I was so excited a little while ago when I discovered two little packages of purple potatoes at my grocery store!  I love purple potatoes, but have not seen them for years, and I've never seen them here before!  I brought them home and tried them right away in a roasted potato dish.... but they were mealy, mushy, and tasted kinda gross.  I couldn't even eat them.  Sadly, I kinda forgot about

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I tried this recipe for our New Year's Eve festivities tonight.  It's similar to the one I usually use, but this one has a more Southwestern flair with jalapeños (and bacon is always good!)  I forgot to get fresh jalapeños not once, but twice, so I had to resort to the jarred (pickled) ones I keep in my fridge.  And I didn't realize I needed fresh cilantro until I was actually making this, so

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Earlier, I made this super easy chocolate bark for us to eat tonight.  It's just semisweet chocolate with pepitas (hulled pumpkin seeds) and spices mixed in.  For the spices, I used the cinnamon called for, and then I used chipotle chili powder and Portuguese piri-piri instead of the Ancho chili powder and cayenne.  Piri-piri is similar to cayenne anyway.  I was scared of it being too spicy, so I

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For Christmas Eve dinner, we always eat a light meal of cheese, homemade rolls, dried fruits, and black and green olives and some kind of juice.  Most times, we get a cool assortment of cheeses to try, trying to get some from  a few different countries.  This year, I didn't have time to go the Portuguese grocery store before Christmas Eve, so we had the following cheeses for our meal: Sharp White

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This soup is actually pretty healthy despite the creaminess.  There are double carbs in the form of potatoes and noodles, but I'm ok with that.  The creaminess comes from evaporated milk (2%) and cornstarch.  I used part of a store-bought rotisserie chicken for the meat, and boiled the bones to make my own stock.  This made quite a bit- we enjoyed the leftovers for lunch the next day. Creamy

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Peppermint Chocolate Blossom Cookies adapted from Culinary Concoctions by Peabody 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar 2 TBSP instant hot cocoa powder (hot cocoa mix) 2 eggs 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract 1 tsp. peppermint extract 3 cups all purpose flour 1/3 cup cocoa powder 1 tsp. baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt About 1/3 cup granulated sugar to coat cookies

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This stuff is soooo good.  I think I added too much white chocolate, but that is not a bad thing in my eyes.  :)  I used 5 cups of liquid and 13 ounces of white chocolate- next time I think 10-11oz to 5 cups of liquid would be enough.  So.... about 2 ounces of white chocolate per cup of liquid (milk, half and half, whatev!  Lol.)  The picture above has a slight pink tinge from my candy cane being

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This blog is like carb city lately!!  We are still eating regular food, but I'm really only trying new Christmas treat recipes lately, not "real food" recipes.  We've been having our standby's of homemade mac and cheese, tomato soup, broccoli-cheese soup, etc., so we can have quick and easy meals during this busy holiday time!  I had fun making these cute, tiny Christmas cookies with my kids

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I made this last week for my husband's birthday.  I've had the recipe bookmarked for a long time, looking for a reason to make it.  It was sooo good, especially the frosting.  The cake was good too, but I think my super-efficient oven struck again and overbaked it a little, although I was vigilant this time.  Oh well, what do you do?  I want to make the frosting again, definitely.  I'm thinking

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What a wonderful flavor combination!!!  Two of my favorite things- dulce de leche and white chocolate combined into a delicious fudge.  When I saw this I knew I had to make it!  You just melt white chocolate, and add some dulce de leche, milk, and nuts, if desired.  I used evaporated milk, because it seems like most fudge recipes call for that as opposed to just regular milk.  I also used

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These were very good.  I made these for breakfast on my husband's birthday.  I doubled the recipe, but did not double the oil.  They were soft right out of the waffle iron, but crisped up perfectly a few seconds after.  I made the batter the night before and it did well in the fridge.  Actually, it kept well for a few days in the fridge.  Thanks to a cooking friend for pointing out this recipe!

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This recipe is so fun.  I first heard about it from a cooking friend, and it seems to be quite popular on blogs.  It's just an easy fudge- after it sets, you cut squares and impale them upon sticks.  Then stir into very hot milk until it melts and becomes hot chocolate, or you can microwave a square right in your milk.  I don't have any "action shots" of these, but I assure you that the hot

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This is another recipe from the Taste of Beruit blog; a blog full of wonderful-looking Middle Eastern recipes.  I saw the photo she had of these and knew I had to make them sometime.  I love how the dough uses yogurt- just like my favorite Naan bread.  The recipe calls for lamb, but I just used beef.  It also calls for pomegranate molasses.  I've had a pomegranate glaze in my pantry for quite a

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In case you haven't heard yet, coconut oil is no longer bad for you.  It's actually a healthy fat and has many health properties.  Google it if interested.  ;)  Make sure to get extra-virgin, and organic if possible.  One of my fave on-line natural food sources, Vitacost, has it.  It imparts a nice subtle coconut flavor to baked goods, and I've also used it in stir-fries, etc.  Coconut oil is

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When I saw these recently over at Culinary Concoctions by Peabody, I knew I had to make them very soon!  My kids love making cute cupcakes like this with me, and the easier, the better when it comes to my OCD ways in the kitchen.  I simply made one cupcake first to show them all, and then they made the rest all by themselves- even frosting the cupcakes.  They had a blast.  It was a bit messy for

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This is a delicious dressing- I make it as a topping for Sweet Pork Tacos, but this is also good for a salad or for dipping.  This stuff is so good that I could seriously just drink it straight..... or maybe I have done that.  Hmmm...... The full recipe makes a ton, so I always cut it in half when I make this (recipe reflected below).  This recipe uses dry Ranch dressing mix powder, and the full

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I love pound cake, and I also love almond flavors, so this cake was perfect for me.  I wanted a simple, no-fuss, yummy cake for my birthday, so my husand and I made this cake.  Ok, I made it while he talked to me in the kitchen, but that was my fault... he wanted to make it but I insisted on doing it myself.  Sometimes it's hard stepping aside in the kitchen and letting someone else take over! 

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These were fun to make and photograph.  The kids loved them.  I just really wish I'd thought ahead and warmed up some marinara sauce to dip them into at dinnertime, but I was too tired by then.  I got the idea from this blog.  I added some mozzarella cheese to my filling, and then topped with same Parmesan half-way through baking.  I cut turkey pepperoni into 4's for the filling.  A lot of

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This soup was easy and flavorful.  I used a rotisserie chicken for the chicken- I am SO excited that my local grocery store got rotisserie chickens finally!  I love those, and now I have an easy, flavorful source of chicken for all of my many pre-cooked chicken needs. :)  Plus, I get to eat the yummy, crispy, (so bad for you) skin.  That's my favorite part.  Don't worry, I work out.  :)  (Note-

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These are good brownies, and a very popular recipe on Allrecipes.com.  I first made them years ago, before they were so popular.  ;)  I was actually one of the first 20 (or so) reviewers.  Now, the recipe has almost 2,000 reviews- crazy!  These turn out absolutely perfect & chewy if you bake them just right- I am a chronic over-baker with the oven I have now.  (Yes, I have an oven thermometer!

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This soup was very good, filling, and pretty easy as well.  It's supposed to be Cajun-inspired, so I added some hot sauce because I couldn't find my Cajun seasoning.... lol.  I did add some smoked paprika as well.  I also used turkey smoked sausage to cut down on some fat.  1% milk worked well for this recipe, and I used frozen corn instead of canned.  Corn Chowder with Smoked Sausage adapted

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Happy Thanksgiving!  This corn was sooooo good!!  I took so many little tastes of this while I was making T-giving dinner; I should have made more!  Ha ha.  I cut the recipe in half, using about 8 oz. of corn, and I used Neufchatel instead of full fat cream cheese.  This was delicious and I want to make it another time when I can enjoy it even more. (We had so much food today!) Slow Cooker

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These were so good.  I overbaked them a bit, but they were still good.  They would have been a little chewier if I had baked them less (I love chewy).  We had them with some friends, as the base of ice cream sundaes (I made brownies, too) with homemade caramel and hot fudge on top.  I used the rest of my homemade almond paste mentioned here.  I did not have as much as I needed, but these turned

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This is an idea I got from a cooking friend.  This is pretty much the only way I like goat cheese, but it's delicious this way!!  The outside is all crispy, and it's melty and warm on the inside- so good over a salad.  You can dip these rounds into any coating you choose.  This time around, I used a few different ones- Panko bread crumbs, Italian bread crumbs, and plain sesame seeds.  I think I

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These cupcakes were so fun to make!!  My daughter had friends over, so all of the kids got involved in decorating these.  We did "Peas and Carrots", "Mashed Potatoes", and "Corn on the Cob".  The peas are Chewy Sweet Tarts that I bought locally, the carrots are orange Starbursts, quartered, the mashed potatoes are just white frosting, the butter is a yellow starburst, and the gravy is purchased

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A while ago, I bought a small container of light cream with this recipe in mind.  Well, I never got around to making it.  I had to use the cream in something else before it spoiled, so I chose hot fudge sauce, because I could make it and store it in the fridge and not have to eat it right away.  Although, I had to take a photo, so of course I ate the ice cream and hot fudge (above) after I was

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We had these Yorkshire Puddings with this Pot Roast a few weeks ago.  These are little savory puffy thingies made from a flour-milk-egg batter, cooked in oiled or buttered muffin tins, and served up with roast beef and gravy.  It's a British (English) recipe, traditionally using beef drippings instead of butter or oil.  My husband and I love these, but my kids seem wary of them for some reason,

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This is a recipe I would have totally avoided in the past, because it calls for "cream of something" soup.  But, thanks to Pacific Natural Foods, now I have access to an all-natural, made-with-quality-ingredients cream of chicken soup and it's opened up a whole new world, recipe-wise!  I'm not going to cook with this every day or anything, but it's SO nice to have this in my pantry to whip up

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I loooooove these cookies!!!!  They are so good- some of my favorite cookies ever.  Even when they turned out a little flat, like these ones did, they are so wonderful.  Chewy inside, firm on the outside, and the nice crunch of pine nuts.  I toasted my pine nuts first, but the toasting went a little overboard because I thought I had a few minutes for a bathroom break.... oops.  I can't buy almond

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I really don't make meatballs very much, but there was that Spanish Meatball Soup recently, and I've had my eye on this recipe for a long time!  (I guess I'm just attracted to exotic meatball recipes from other countries, lol.)  Anyway, I'm glad I finally took the time to make these Lebanese meatballs, because they were so good!  I loved the rice too- a nice, buttery Basmati.  I loved the mix of

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We had this super easy, tasty pasta dish last week.  I love dishes where the only "cooking" is boiling some pasta.  You do need your blender for this.  When adding the broth to the cream cheese (Neufchatel) mixture, start with 1/2 cup and add more as needed; mine was a bit thin with the whole cup in there.  Also, next time I'd do 14oz. or so of pasta instead of a full pound, so there's more sauce

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Last weekend, my husband and I went on a lunch date to a local restaurant.  We got the daily special (steak with an egg on top!  Oh yeah!  Plus the typical double carbs of rice and fries, lol).  Anyway, we decided to share a dessert.  White chocolate fondue was on the menu, but they were out, so we went with chocolate (it was called "Brown chocolate fondue" on the menu, lol).  It was very good,

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Here are two easy, quick, and non-canning pickle recipes.  I love that I don't have to know how to can in order to make pickles!  First up is Dill Pickles (the long spears).  These are so quick and easy to make, and they're crunchy and tasty.  My kids loved these and ate them very quickly.  And, I know everything that went into them, so no food coloring or un-natural preservatives.  I'll post the

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We had this Pan De Horno with our Spanish Meatball Soup.  It was good, so easy to make, and the dough itself is very simple.  The bread is crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside.  I have not been to Spain for 10 years now, so I don't remember the bread exactly, but I think this is pretty close.  This is supposed to be an authentic recipe from a panadería and we really enjoyed it.  I used

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This recipe- Sopa de Albóndiguillas Catalana- is yummy and a little bit different- a brothy, tomato-y soup filled with pasta and small pork meatballs, and flavored with fresh mint and white pepper.  I decided, once again, that I needed to make more recipes from my Spanish cookbooks.  This recipe looked fun and easy enough.  This recipe comes from Catalonia, Spain- the Northeastern part of the

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Wow- I absolutely loved this granola.  This love made me feel guilty about "cheating" on my first love, "The Granola", but after making The Granola regularly for the last 5+ years, I got the itch to try a new recipe and was so glad I did!  (I still love you, first love Granola.  It's ok).  I was intrigued, first of all, by the use of olive oil in this recipe.  There was actually so much olive

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This recipe is called "French Country Bread", but it really reminds me of the local bread here on the island; kind of a chewy, crackly-on-the-outside, sturdy loaf.  Since I'm confused about what country to name it after now, I will just call it "Country Bread".   :)  When I made this (over a week ago), I made two loaves- one round, free-style one (pictured), baked on a baking sheet, and one

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This stew, using leftover beef Alcatra, was so flavorful and delicious- I really enjoyed it!  I had frozen two large portions of Alcatra back in August.  I used one portion to make the stew pictured above, about a month ago.  I'm using the last portion to make the same recipe tomorrow!  I based this off of my super-simple slow cooker beef stew.  For any local readers (anyone?  lol) this is a

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Happy Halloween!  These are sooo cute, and they're simple to make!  I've seen similar ideas on the internet in years past, but finally decided to make them after being reminded of the idea from Our Best Bites, and plus, their pics made it look so easy!  I won't include step-by-step pics, but they are helpful to look at for this particular recipe, so head over to their blog to check them out. 

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For the last little while, every time I'd see a cool Halloween-themed food I liked, I'd bookmark it in a special place.  I finally put some of those recipes to use this last Friday when we had a cool Halloween dinner with the kids.  Above are Slimy Worm Sandwiches.  We also had "Monster Eyes" deviled eggs, and "Creepy Fingers" string cheese.  (And some carrot sticks, since they're an orange

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These muffins were quite tasty.  They took quite a while to put together, but it was ok.  There was some baking + babywearing going on so I could get these done without any tears (from me or the baby).  I like pumpkin stuff well enough, but don't love it; however, I have an urge to bake with it in the fall, and these muffins looked really good.  These made two dozen, so I gave most of them away.

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(Oops... hit "publish" on accident before finishing the post, lol!  Here is the rest:) One of my cooking friends made this bread, and it looked and sounded so good that I wanted to make it too.  Well, it was good!  The pb/chocolate combo made it taste almost cake-like.  But the recipe is actually quite healthy, using all whole wheat pastry flour, raw sugar, plain yogurt, and just a bit of oil.  I

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This is an easy and very quick fun Halloween treat to make.  The adults liked it as much as the kids- although eating too much at once isn't a good idea, as it is very sweet!  I used Snyder's Butter-Flavored Pretzel Snaps to get some of that sweet-salty flavor going on- they were really good in there.  I made this twice.  The second time, I included some White Chocolate Candy Corn M&M's (that I

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I've been eyeing this recipe for a while, but fresh sage is hard to come by here.  I found a small sage plant in my grocery store a little bit ago, so I brought it home in anticipation of this recipe.  I decided to use a large sweet potato instead of a butternut squash; all of the squashes were huge.  I'm sure both ways are good; I loved this with the sweet potato; I could have just eaten the

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These cookies were sooooo good, and yet so easy to make!  You place dough into mini-muffin cups and bake, and when they come out of the oven, press a peanut butter cup into the hot cookie.  One tip that was great from Allrecipes reviewers: unwrap the peanut butter cups and place them in the freezer for at least an hour before using- they will go into the cookie very easily without breaking.  A

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This chili was pretty good, and I liked using a new-to-me ingredient (chocolate) in my chili.  This recipe just includes a bit of cocoa powder and some unsweetened baking chocolate.  When adding the baking chocolate, add a little at a time, because too much makes it bitter.  (Mine did turn a little bitter after adding half the amount called for, but you can add some red wine vinegar to even it

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This was soooooo good, yet so incredibly fast to whip up!  It has the complex flavor of my favorite caramels- in fact, it tastes exactly the same- but it only takes about five minutes of cooking time, and only four ingredients!  This stuff was so good that our fam almost ate the whole batch, warm over ice cream.  There was only about 1/2 cup left, which I ate slowly over the next few days, right

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This hot fudge is SO easy and quick, and I always have the ingredients in my pantry/fridge.  This is a great last-minute hot fudge.  While stirring, don't go far, because sweetened condensed milk burns very easily (I found this out the hard way).  I added about 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder to this, because the chocolate color looked too "pale" without it.  This will never replace my fave hot

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We had these delicious black beans with fajitas a while ago.  They were the pefect side dish for that.  I only made a half-recipe, and we still had leftovers for days.  Good things beans last a few days in the fridge.  The next few days, I made myself a Black Bean Quesadilla for lunch using these and it was very tasty.  The last day I ate these, I just warmed them up in the micorwave and topped

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These were sooooo good.  We had them a while ago, and I'm just now getting around to posting them.  I've grilled meat for fajitas before, but, for some reason, have never thought to grill the veggies, too.  Well, we'll never go back- the grilled veggies were just so good!  The chicken was too, and what a great idea to throw the tortillas on the grill- another "Hello!" moment, lol.  We had these

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We had this Sangria with our Spanish Tapas night.  I know it's probably not authentic at all, but oh well.  This seems like a church-lady version.  :)  It was good, easy, and we enjoyed it!  Plus, I've never had real Sangria to compare..... so this is great for me.  I added some sliced Star fruit just for fun; my kids had never seen a cut one before.  They watched me cut it and were just

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I absolutely love these little guys.  I lived in southern Spain as a young adolescent and then teenager, and these little green gems were popular in the restaurants there- either as a tapa (appetizer) or as a side to your meal.  One of my fave meals was a garlicky pan-grilled bluefish with a bunch of these fried Pimientos.  I was SO excited last week when I went to the local Portuguese grocery

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This soup was so delicious- it exceeded my expectations in levels of delicious-ness.  It was also very easy to make, and smelled sooo good while it was cooking.  You can use cooked chicken in this, but I didn't have any, so I just dropped in frozen (raw) chicken tenders when I added the broth.  At the end of the cooking time, the chicken was perfectly cooked and tender- I just shredded it apart

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Our family loved these and they were pretty easy to make!  I don't make biscuits very often, but I think I might start to, because I forgot how good they are.  I also loved these cheese biscuits I made about a year ago.  I feel so accomplished when I'm able to make something like this.  ;)  We had these with some delicious creamy chicken soup, and we slathered the biscuits with butter and my plum

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This chicken is delicious- but I think pretty much anything grilled is always delicious.  You could probably throw dirty dishwater on chicken, grill it, and it'd be good.  Anyway, this chicken is full of delicious honey-mustard flavor!  And it always turns out super tender, too.  I didn't even marinade this the last time I made it; I just whipped up the honey-mustard mixture, and then we grilled

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I've had this recipe saved to make forever and I finally made it sometime last week.  Sadly, (so sadly), I cannot get Gorgonzola here.... or at least I haven't seen any.  But I can find regular blue cheese.  This time, it came from Bavaria, Germany and it's really good.  I buy a small amount at a time, because I'm the only one in the fam that eats it.  I avoided it while pregnant, but am getting

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This isn't really a fall drink, but it took me quite a while to get around to making it, and plus, we've been having some warm weather lately.  :)  We had these with grilled chicken, orzo and broccoli- all foods that my kids love, but they totally ignored the food in favor of these drinks.  :)  They loooooved them!  The adults enjoyed them, as well.  PS: I bought limes so I could garnish the

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I made this over a month ago and am just now getting around to posting it.  This is a casserole baked in a creamy soup type recipe, and I hardly ever make such things, but this is a nostalgic recipe for me; shortly after my now 5-year old was born, someone brought us dinner one night, and it was Poppyseed Chicken with Rice.  I loved it soooo much; it tasted so good to me, and I've always wanted

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This jam is delicious!  There are a ton of fresh figs here right now; people are selling them out of their yards and they're at farmer's markets all over the island (well, all 4 outdoor markets that I know of... lol).  I've never made anything with them before; my kids like eating them raw and so we usually buy some every fall for that, but don't do much else with them.  I was perusing the blog

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I like the title "Baked Black Bean Burritos".  :)  These are really good, and so easy, and pretty healthy, too.  I made them twice in one week.  The decision to add cheese is up to you- without cheese, these are vegan.  I've been really into beans lately.  (And even made another new black bean recipe today- I'll post that some other time).  The whole fam, including the kids, liked these.  I used

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I know I just posted a Ricotta Pancake recipe, but the other day, I had some more ricotta to use up and came across this recipe from Eating Etc's blog that I had wanted to make a few years ago and never got around to.  The original recipe calls for cottage cheese, but I subbed ricotta very successfully.  I also used applesauce for half of the butter.  These were so delish and eggy, but not too

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This salmon dish was quick to prepare and very tasty.  The Panko bread crumbs make it really crispy and yummy.  Plus, I usually have all of the ingredients on hand.  (Frozen salmon, and if you can't get Panko, just use regular bread crumbs.  My store stopped selling Panko but I order them online now).  The fam liked this dish as well.   We ate this with roasted asparagus and mashed potatoes in

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These yummy pumpkin cookies will put you in a fall mood.  I forgot to add the baking soda, but they seemed fine.  :)  That's what I get for trying to bake and hold the baby at the same time (my husband took our baby carrier with him in the car by mistake..... I have yet to try baking + babywearing but I think it'd be fun!  Lol.)  Anyway, they weren't terribly popular with the kids, for some

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I loved these beans- we had them over a week ago, I think, and I'm still thinking about them.  We ate them with this delicious Blue Cornmeal Cornbread.  It was a perfect combo!  Cowboy food!  The kids liked the beans well enough, except for Mr. Picky (but he loved the cornbread).  I loved the flavors of bacon, tomato, and cilantro in these.  My store was out of bacon (and still is...it's

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We LOVED this!!  I've made this same recipe with yellow cornmeal and it was very good, but it's so fun to eat blue-tinged food.  Baking this in cast iron gives it a nice crust underneath, and it just bakes up so nice and evenly.  Plus, I feel all rustic and cowboy-like when I bake in my cast iron!!!  We had this for dinner with some delicious beans- that recipe later.  (Love cornbread & beans

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I love this baked oatmeal.  Well, I've only made it twice; the first time was about 6 years ago, and I thought, "Wow, I'll be making that all the time!"  And then.... 6 years later..... here we are.  Lol.  But maybe from now ON, I will be making this all the time.  Next time I make it, I want to try to use half applesauce for the butter, because I really need less buttah in my life.  This will

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This soup was so good, flavorful, and filling.  Got fiber?  This soup does!!!  Ha ha!  No, really, this soup was truly delicious and I enjoyed eating it (because eat it I did... for dinner one night w/the fam and then for a couple days afterward for lunch.... this makes a ton!)  Actually, the whole fam liked this.  Even my pickiest eater, who was put off at first by the appearnce (as he is with

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I love this cake- I first made it a few times about 6-7 years ago to use up some plums from my Aunt's tree.  I also had access to wonderful blueberries from a U-pick farm back then.  This time I just got the least old-looking ones from my store, lol.  (Not sure how frozen blueberrie would work since I've never tried it).  This is the first (and only) upside down cake I've ever made.  You arrange

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Delicious homemade chocolate-peanut butter pudding that we all enjoyed warm.  Made quite a lot!!  I used 2% milk instead of whole or half-and-half and it was wonderful.  Chocolate-Peanut Butter Pudding adapted from iVillage 1/4 cup cornstarch 3/4 cup granulated sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder 3 1/2 cups 2% or whole milk 4 large egg yolks 1 teaspoon pure

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Not much to say about this one..... roasted broccoli is tasty and if you like broccoli, you should try this!  I made this a while ago but wasn't happy with the photos I took.  (Camera trouble...I'm totally blaming the camera, lol!)  I made it again on Sunday and still wasn't happy, but I'm posting this anyway.  We love steamed broccoli around here, but it's still nice to change it up a little. 

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This bread is quick to make (hence the quick bread title.... lol) and it's delicious.  It also makes your house smell great!  Yay for fall baking!  It's good out of the oven, and later on, eaten with butter, or even toasted.  I used half whole wheat pastry flour for this, and this recipe uses buttermilk, which I love to use for baking (when it's available at my store here.... they've been out of

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I love this pasta sauce.  I first tried it at a nice restaurant about five years ago, in the central Washington town we lived in at the time.  It was actually served over lobster ravioli there, but that's not really easy to get here.  ;)  We've had this twice in the last month; the first time, I used frozen cheese ravioli, and the last time, I meant to get that again but got tortellini on

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Here are some photos I took on our way to the Farmer's Market I talked about a few posts ago.  It's a beautiful drive, and it's always fun to see assorted farm animals in weird places, like the piggy, above, eating a field of old... something.... next to an abandoned house.  I got out of the car to take this pic and the pig, grunting noisily, started to approch me!  Scary!!  It might have snorted

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These pancakes are sooooo good- almost cake-like!!  And the blueberry sauce is to die for.  I would make this just by itself for other pancake/waffle recipes or to serve over ice cream.  Just slightly sweetened; the real flavor of blueberries is allowed to shine through.  I used frozen blueberries and they worked wonderfully.  The sauce only took a minute to put together.  I had some natural

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This is one of my favorite ways to eat rice.  It is so good and tasty.  It also uses brown rice, which makes it a bit healthier than some other pilafs. I've made this many times but have never been able to get a really good photo, so I've never posted.  Well, I finally want to post it, and am just using a photo I took last year.  It will have to do! The last time I made this, I first sauteed

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After the S'Mores Pie I made recently, I saw these little guys and wanted to make them too.  These little bites are so quick and easy to make, and they make 48!  (Give some away to your friends.... don't be like us and eat the whole batch in one day.... oops).  The base is a homemade cookie that tastes like a graham cracker, and then you top with a few mini marshmallows and drizzle with melted

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Baby Gala Apples- so cute.  And organic! We just discovered a new-to-us famer's market in one of our favorite little seaside towns here (well really, what town is NOT seaside here?!  Ha ha ha!)  We hadn't ventured to this particular town for a little while, so I have no idea how long this little market has been going on, but what a gem!  I'm so glad we found it.  It's pretty small; just about 4

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I've tried in the past to make plain homemade peanut butter, but always ended up with a large, hard lump of grainy peanuts that wasn't exactly peanut butter.  (I have successfully made both chocolate and white chocolate pb though.... I think the chocolate helps the creaminess department).  When I was recipe surfing on the internet a few weeks ago, I came across a blog that mentioned one had to

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This recipe is very similar to Slow Cooker Chicken Taco Soup, but it's a little different and it also used fresh tomatoes instead of canned (hence the word "Summer" in the title).  This was pretty tasty and also easy to put together- a little chopping in the morning, but then dinner is ready to eat whenever you want in the evening.  The leftovers are good too, as they usually are with soups and

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I've been obsessed with making my own freezer jams lately.  About a month ago, I made a batch of strawberry and later that same day, I tried strawberry-nectarine.  Well, the nectarines I've had this last summer were sooo good; I wanted to preserve some of that flavor.  I made this a few weeks ago- we're still getting nectarines, but they're not as good as they were at the beginning of September,

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This is like a sunflower-seed version of nutella!!  For some reason, I'm really into making different jams/spreads/nut butters lately (just made plain homemade peanut butter and more white chocolate peanut butter).  That white chocolate pb only lasted a few days because it seems someone ate it with a spoon everytime they were in the kitchen..... wonder who that was.  Anyway, this choc. sunflower

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Whenever we buy a loaf of French/Italian bread, it seems we can never go through it all in one day.   Those things are huge!  So from now on, when I have leftover bread like that, I'm making these croutons!  I've tried a few crouton recipes in the past, but prefer this one because it uses a mix of olive oil and butter, instead of just butter.  The just-butter ones are good, but almost too

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This was sooooo good!  I saw the original recipe on Tastespotting last week, and wanted to make it ASAP.  At the time, I only had two frozen bananas, but in the next few days, I added two more to my stash.  The recipe above only has frozen bananas, 1% milk, and unsweetened cocoa powder.  Oh yeah- there's like one ice cube because I had forgotten about them and then had no room to add more, lol. 

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*It's hard to believe that it's been 10 years since September 11, 2001.  On that day, I was newly married and just a few weeks pregnant with my first child.  For a while, I felt fear for the new life I was going to be bringing into the world.  I think many of us can remember where we were and our thoughts and feelings about that day.  Let us never forget.* This recipe comes from the now-defunct

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Here's an easy lunch idea- if you like tuna sandwiches, but don't eat them because of mercury, or if you just prefer salmon, try this!  It's not really a "recipe", just a method and an idea.  I keep these little salmon cups on hand so I can use them for my lunches sometimes.  One salmon cup is the perfect size for one good-sized sandwich.  Each cup contains 2.8 ounces of salmon.  Instead of mayo,

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Making the White Texas Sheet cake made me crave the regular, chocolate kind.  I made most of this to give away and just kept a tiny bit for us to eat.  I made a half-recipe again in my half-size jelly roll pan.  It was good, but I'd want nuts next time (I usually don't include nuts in treats I'm giving away, in case of allergy or picky people :) ).  The frosting is the best part of these.  :)

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I made this dressing to go over some organic lettuce from the local organic farm, and some fresh tomatoes and cukes from our friend.  I also made homemade croutons to go with this, but that's a post for another day.  The dressing was so easy to make and I've always wanted to make a Creamy Italian.  It was good on this salad,and as a dip for fresh cucumbers, and I put it on some sandwiches another

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We had this tonight with our Labor Day barbecue (just burgers, fruit salad, sliced cukes and canned baked beans).  The drink was tasty and pretty easy to make.  I made the simple syrup (sugar dissolved in boiling water) the night before so it had a chance to chill.  I didn't have the recipe in the kitchen while we were making this, and had remembered it called for "2-3 limes" but not the exact

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I was going through some pictures on my computer, and came across these ones from late December 2010.  I was newly pregnant and morning sick back then, and hardly ever posted anything on this blog.  I had forgotten about these photos.  A friend was leaving the island and we drove him to the airport.  Before he left he wanted to drive to the highest point on the island.  It was early in the

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My little guy picked this cake out months ago, for his 5th birthday, which finally happened yesterday.  This is another cake from the Family Fun Website.  Check out that link for the full instructions.  The original method uses 2 full 9x13 cakes, but it was just our family eating this, so I cut the recipe in half.  I made one 9x13 cake out of my favorite pound cake recipe (it's sturdier for

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I love freezer jam, and so does my whole family.  Usually, I just make strawberry.  Although I have made a few different kinds in the past, including plum, blueberry, and peach.  I think I just didn't know what I was doing back then, but the peach turned out way too runny.  The blueberry had a weird texture, maybe from the blueberry skins?  I don't remember much about the plum; these were all at

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When I first saw this pie over at The Pastry Affair, I knew I had to make it soon- it was so, so beautiful!  It's not even hard to make at all.  About as hard as melting chocolate.  :)  To make it even easier on myself (and quicker to make during a newborn's nap), I used a........ storebought graham cracker crust!  Gasp!  Actually, I have no problem using store-bought crumb crusts sometimes.  If

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In the summertime, I love making pasta dishes with fresh, raw tomatoes.... preferably homegrown ones.  This is another dish I made with fresh tomatoes from our friend.  I really, really liked this one, and it was SO easy and fast!  You use the tomatoes in their fresh, raw state, add some red onion, and toss with hot pasta, a tiny bit of olive oil and vinegar, and a touch of Parmesan cheese.  You

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