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Cooking, Dinner, SlowCock

ROSEMARY PORK TENDERLOIN

As I’ve previously discussed, my family is not big on chicken. Because of this, I’m constantly on the search for protein for our dinners that is still lean. Pork Tenderloin cooks up beautifully and is tender and moist. This Rosemary Pork Tenderloin recipes is one of […]

Cooking, Sea Food

SHRIMP DRAGON NOODLES

Years ago I used to buy Pad Thai dinner kits from Thai Kitchen for an easy two-person meal. These kits started to become more difficult to find and as our girls began eating the same dinners that we did, I forgot about these yummy noodle dishes (which admittedly […]

Cooking, Pancakes

GERMAN PANCAKES

Scott and I cook breakfast every Sunday. Never on Saturday but always on Sunday. It’s one of my favorite meals of the entire week because we’re both in the kitchen together whipping stuff up. He makes the best eggs in the world (lately he’s been […]

Cookies, Cooking

Shortbread Cookies with Jam

A few years ago for my birthday I received one of the best presents—two cooking classes at the local grocery/market with my mom. The first class was for Thanksgiving Pies and the second was German Holiday Cookies. Both were fantastic but I loved the second […]

Cooking, Pie, Pie

Pumpkin Pie – Family Favorite

Someone asked recently if anyone had a pumpkin pie recipe that didn’t call for corn syrup because she was having trouble finding one. What?! Pumpkin pie with corn syrup?! No thank you. Actually, I’m sure it would be tasty, but really? My mom has been […]

Cooking, Dinner

Freezer Friendly Spaghetti Meat Sauce

Every once in a while recipe magic happens. And by recipe magic I mean your entire family absolutely loves what you’ve put in front of them for dinner. By entire family I mean Scott and Elle. Honestly, I’ll eat anything, especially if I cook it. […]

Cooking, Desserts

Grilled Pound Cake Dessert

Can you believe that until last week I had never turned on the grill by myself? For the month of July I decided it was high time to do Operation Use My Grill and I’ve wrangled Scott into participating with me. If you’re not familiar with […]

Cooking

Thanksgiving Stuffed Acorn Squash

If you have never tried Acorn Squash…you must! It’s actually my favorite squash out of the whole squash family. It’s sweet but not too sweet and almost buttery after roasted. So pair this with some Thanksgiving like stuffing. OMG, comfort food like no other. All […]

Cooking, Dinner, SlowCock

SMOTHERED PORK CHOPS

I know I say a lot of my dishes are super easy to make, but this one really is! A pork chop, an apple… and only 1 dish to clean. And if that’s not enough, it’s packed with bold, classic flavors everyone from kids to adults […]

Cooking, Desserts

White Chocolate Blueberry Cheesecake

Cheesecake is like oatmeal – there is a million ways to prepare it, one yummier than the otherThis week I decided to combine two of my all time favorites in it: White Chocolate and Blueberries. The flavors go together deliciously and with the blueberries on […]

Cooking, Drinks

CHOCOLATE BANANA SMOOTHIE

Ask Siri, the iPhone assistant, what is the meaning of life, and one of its more poignant answers is “All evidence to date suggests it is chocolate.” So what do you do if you love chocolate, but it doesn’t love you back? What do you […]

Brownies, Cookies, Cooking

SALTED CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT TOFFEE BITES

These salted chocolate hazelnut toffee bits? Yes yes and yes! They will totally make your day/week/month/year EPIC. I mean, a sweet and creamy date-hazelnut filling covered in a crunchy salted chocolate ganache? How could that not be the bestest thing ever? I’d been wanting to […]

Cooking, Dinner

Spaghetti and Meatballs

“These are the best spaghetti and meatballs I ever heard.” So proclaimed one of our three-year-old twin daughters. We try so hard not to laugh at her approximations, but when I asked her to say it again, she knew. She knew she’d said something funny, […]

Cake, Cooking

LEMON CURD CHEESECAKE BARS

In a perfect world, Mondays would include obscene amounts of cheesecake first thing in the morning. Better yet – in a perfect world, Mondays wouldn’t exist. Especially Mondays before a biochem exam, which are obviously the worst kind of Mondays ever. I mean, those call […]