The green stuff

We definitely love Mexican food around here and probably have it at least once a week. I’ve been working on perfecting my guacamole recently, but I still like to cut corners a bit and use a package of Produce Partners Great Guacamole seasoning. Lawry’s also makes a good guacamole seasoning (the McCormick stuff in the [...]

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Chocolate cake, meet my lovehandles.

Yikes this chocolate cake is sinfully good. It’s my third from scratch cake and maybe the best yet, but how can anything beat chocolate cake? Not possible. This stuff is amazing. Warning: do not attempt to eat without a big glass of milk. Thanks to Michelle for recommending this recipe on her blog! Texas Sheet [...]

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Mexican Lasagna

I don’t have much to say except this is another one of our standbys. It tastes AMAZING the next day, not that it’s bad the first night, but after it’s cooled in the fridge the layers settle in well and it reheats great. Leftovers will take care of lunch for the next 2-3 days! So [...]

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A favorite standby

This is one of my favorite meals to make because everything mixes up quickly and you can bake them all at the same time. So outside of baking the potatoes the meal takes less than 45 minutes start to finish (with a little help from Tyler trimming the fat off the chicken!) The first two [...]

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20 minute meal

So depending on how long it takes you to to chop and saute the veggies this meal could easily take less than 20 minutes to make, and who doesn’t love a super fast meal? I had a bunch of tomatoes and decided to make fresh salsa for the first time. We decided to whip up [...]

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Fondue night

We are always looking for reasons to celebrate and bust out our fondue pot. Birthdays, valentine’s day, anniversaries…but this week we wanted fondue and decided to use the series finale of Gilmore Girls as our reason. Not that we are happy it has been canceled, but celebrating 7 great years of my favorite show (though [...]

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Menu planning tip

About a month ago I was completely out of meal ideas and drawing a complete blank on what I know how to make. I was trapped in a rotation of the same 4-5 meals and really needed to break out of it. So I followed the advice of a friend and created a list of [...]

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Lasagna rolls….just the way I like em!

So I made lasagna rolls a few months ago and BLECH I hated them! I used as much spinach as the recipe called for and I felt like I had to choke that green stuff down. Frozen spinach does not taste so great, especially in large portions. So this time I decided I was going [...]

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Making bread for the very first time

Thanks to Amber for introducing me to this recipe, it was intimidating at first but I’m glad I took on the challenge! Kneading the bread and punching it down was good stress relief. It was an all day project but the bread turned out quite tasty though a little denser than I expected (this could [...]

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And I’m back…

I did not want to cook last week. At all. I don’t really know what we ate but we survived and today I made up for my lack of enthusiasm with a whirlwind day in the kitchen. I baked bread, made a cake from scratch, and I made lasagna rolls for dinner. I will reveal [...]

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