More mushroom risotto

I was craving mushrooms again and found this recipe on Cooking Light’s website and decided to give it a try. Very glad Tyler was around to assist me. He chopped everything while I stir, stir, stirred the risotto. This risotto actually tastes very rich and creamy. I used 3 kinds of [...]

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All good things…

Well the time has come, I am hanging up my Tuesdays with Dorie apron. I am going back to school for my Masters in Social Work and will have a busy schedule with classes and practicum, and no co-workers to pawn my treats off to anymore! I have really enjoyed the TWD group [...]

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The Welcome Wagon

In the last 3 weeks we’ve had two new neighbors move into our apartment building. We were SO HAPPY that the old upstairs neighbor moved out since he frequently kept us up late at night with his drunken arguments and *ahem* other noisy activities. We were home and able to promptly [...]

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Gnocchi with Spinach and Sausage

This is another recipe that was recommended to me in my SOS post a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to Holly for recommending it! We’ve only had gnocchi once before and that was at a restaurant.  The texture definitely takes some getting used to. It’s essentially a small dumpling made out of [...]

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Our Hot Date: Cooking Class!

For Christmas last year Tyler and I received gift certificates to the Kansas City Culinary Center. Six months later and we finally used them! We were desperate for a night out, so we dropped the puppy off with some friends willing to pug sit and headed off to our class.

We signed up for [...]

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Cooking Club: Spanish Tapas!

For this month’s Cooking Club we gathered at Nemmie’s adorable little house to make some Spanish Tapas. She provided us with appetizers to snack on including various cheeses: Drunken Goat, San Simon, and Manchego with Rosemary. As well as some Spanish chorizo and Serrano ham. And these really yummy olives, don’t know [...]

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Summer Garden Pasta

Thanks so much to everyone who answered my cry for help with simple summer recipe suggestions. I’m proud to say that we’ve only eaten at Chick-fil-a once in the last 3 weeks I’ve been cooking more and that makes both Tyler and I very happy. This pasta recipe was [...]

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TWD: chocolate pudding

Thanks for being patient waiting for my full write up! I was relieved to see that Melissa had chosen chocolate pudding for our TWD challenge this week. I just wanted something easy, lol. I’m trying to get back in the groove in the kitchen and focus on getting actual nutritious meals on [...]

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The fish that made me eat my words

Well I was skeptical when my dad gave us some trout from a recent fishing trip.  Mostly since they still had the heads on and the bones in and…ick.  I was not too sure about it.  So it sat in the freezer until I knew we just couldn’t ignore it anymore and Tyler set out [...]

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TWD: Double Crusted Blueberry Pie

I was happy to see that blueberry pie was the chosen recipe for this week. Around the 4th of July the grocery stores around here are PACKED with fresh blueberries and they are usually on sale too. I attribute it to the flag cake phenomena. Everyone makes flag cakes for the 4th [...]

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