Category: Recipes
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The Instapot
I keep calling it that. I know it’s an Instant Pot, but still. I adapted our original Peggy’s sauce to work in the Instapot! For future reference, here’s how I did it. I usually add at least 2 zucchini and 2 yellow squash, and 3 full cans of tomatoes, but I didn’t want to overfill […]
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The Best Chocolate Cake Ever
That’s what it was called on the website where I found it, foto e fornelli. I love this blog, even if I have to use Google Translate to read it. So first I translated this recipe from Italian, then I adapted measurements from grams to cups and teaspoons using my scale. Now that I have […]
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teeny tiny cheesecakes
A week or two ago, I decided to bake cheesecake. I’m really not a fan of cheesecake, (I know, I know), but Justin loves it, so I thought I’d try to make it with something I am a fan of: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. People, I LOVE peanut butter cups. And now they come in dark […]
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Shredded Pork Tacos
Oh, my… I think I’ve found our new favorite recipe. It’s so easy! I really do adore my crockpot… I just plopped in a pork shoulder and some sauce ingredients and let it cook all afternoon, and when I got home, it was fall-apart tender and perfect for tacos. I quick-marinated some red onions, and […]
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Chicken Tetrazzini!
I bought a new cookbook: The Best Simple Recipes from America’s Test Kitchen. I lurve it. It’s full of tasty-looking, non-intimidating recipes, and I want to make every one of them! For now I’ll share this one with you, but you should really just go buy the book, because seriously, it’s a good one. Chicken […]
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Finding my crockpot, again
It’s not that I misplace it, really, it’s just that I forget that I have it. And then, every year or so, I realize that it’s there, and I use every week, until I don’t. And then the cycle repeats. So, hey! I have a crockpot! And I made beef stew, and lo, it was […]
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BLTs, potato salad and daquiris
This was such a good meal… and it was one of those thrown-together-at-the-last-minute things, too! I made BLTs… just bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayo on toasted bread. It felt like such a treat somehow. I used up some red potatoes and green beans from our Farmhouse bin… I just boiled them up separately until they […]
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Blackberry Cobbler
Oh, summer fruit, you make me so happy. Our last Farmhouse bin contained a basket of blackberries and some peaches. I used them in this cobbler… and now I am determined to make cobblers ALL THE TIME, using this recipe. We loved the biscuit-y topping, and I imagine just about any fruit would be great […]
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enchilada soup and mai tais
We made this a while back… Yes, I know it’s a weird mish-mash of cultures to have enchilada soup with mai tais. Still, it was yummy. I wanted to use up the leftover cooked chicken we had, and found this recipe in my Evernote. I am currently in a Southern/Home Cookin’/Crockpot/stir-in-a-can-of-cream-of-mushroom-soup phase. As for the […]
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Quick chocolate pudding
Next time you’re craving something chocolatey, whip up this dangerously easy pudding. Below is a super-precise recipe. (Kidding.) Also, kitty cats like to sit next to you when you eat pudding, or anything milk-based. That’s just how it goes. Microwave Chocolate Pudding for One 1/2 cup milk 1 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch pinch of salt 1/4 […]