Category: Cooking
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Quick & Easy Cream Cheese Lasagna
Guess what? I’ve never made “home-made” lasagna. In fact, I just happen to know that making lasagna is “hard” and “time consuming” by chance – not because I’ve ever experienced it. I don’t even know why it’s so hard. I made three batches of lasagna in the past three weeks (don’t judge – I love me…
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Halloween Orange Cupcakes
When Kristofer told me his coworkers were going to bring in food on Halloween, I started ranting about how we weren’t going to bring in another dessert, but would instead make a savory dish for everyone to enjoy! …then the deadline started creeping up on me, and I realized that I needed to use my Halloween…
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Petal Iced Fresh Strawberry Cake
Super moist, this delicate cake is made with fresh strawberries and topped with a cream cheese frosting. To achieve the frosting effect as pictured, look for instructions on “petal icing” a cake. I used a cake piping bag and circle tip, a regular spoon, and 2(!) containers of store-bought frosting. The frosting spreads best when…
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Peaches with Cottage Cheese
Here’s a super easy recipe for those of us who like cottage cheese, and those of us who like peaches! Usually I’m a peaches-in-ice-cream type of gal, but since sometimes we need to eat meals other than dessert (like breakfast or an afternoon snack), I’m willing to switch it up sometimes! These sure did make for a…
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Basil Cream Chicken
This is one of those recipes that is so good you share it with your neighbor. Pan breaded chicken baked in a cream sauce – terrible and wonderful at the same time. This is an ideal leftover meal, as the chicken is moist and the cream sauce helps after microwaving. With a lot of flavor and texture,…
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Open Faced Buffalo Chicken Sandwich
Here’s one of the easiest ways to use leftover Shredded Buffalo Chicken: an open faced sandwich on toasted bread. If you’re a mayo or ranch person, you could spice up your sandwich a bit more… but I’m a straight buffalo person, so I didn’t need any of that! ;p
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Buffalo Chicken Pretzel Bites
Still without a fridge, Kristofer and I made the most of our leftover Shredded Buffalo Chicken by purchasing some Pillsbury Breadstick dough and topping with kosher salt for our best pretzel-esque taste. Have you made pretzel bread before? Share a recipe in the comments for a homemade version of this!
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Slow Cooker Shredded Buffalo Chicken
About a month into our new apartment without a fridge, Kristofer and I were having to get creative with the food we ate. Eating out all the time isn’t affordable (or tasty), but frozen food (because we had a freezer) was just depressing in the amounts we had to consume it. At the very least, we ended…
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Tortellini and Sausage
This is a dish that I’ve been making so long that I didn’t even have a written recipe for it. I usually just wing it, although I’m pretty sure the first time I tried it was using a Publix recipe. Today I’m sharing it with you! Here, it’s served with some butter lettuce. Kristofer and I really…
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Cream Cheese Chicken
There’s this pin on Pinterest for a cream cheese chicken. It looks like a light, breaded chicken… And it goes into the black hole of the internet, never to reveal the true recipe. Which, in reality, is all-too-common of a Pinterest problem. The recipe below is the closest approximation I could find, and it really isn’t…
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Doctor Who Blue Velvet Cupcakes
In celebration of the upcoming Doctor Who premiere, I’m sharing some TARDIS cupcakes I made for a group viewing Kristofer and I are attending! To get a really true blue, use concentrated food coloring, often found in a gel form as made by Wilton. Kristofer and I went all the way to Michaels (not that far away) for…
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Whipped Peanut Butter Cupcakes
After making my raspberry filled red velvet cupcakes, my mother was not shy about letting me know we should make peanut butter filled cupcakes next. This woman eats peanut butter by the spoon fulls, so I was not surprised by this request! Ingredients 1:2:4 ratio of: Butter Peanut Butter Powdered Sugar Optional: milk Instructions Allow…