Au Gratin

Tyler bookmarked this recipe in this month’s Cooking Light and I was skeptical, but it won me over!  I don’t usually eat sweet potatoes or squash because they are so….sweet.  However, drench them in swiss cheese and I’m a big fan!  This recipe took some time to pull together, but it was worth [...]

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Grilled Asparagus

Last week I was coping with horrible fall allergies, unable to smell or taste anything.  Of course Tyler had already planned the meals for the week and done the shopping.  He made several new recipes and while I gobbled the food up, I couldn’t actually taste it!  However, I’m pretty sure this asparagus was very [...]

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Crash hot potatoes

This recipe was in my “to try” folder for over a year at least!  I finally pulled it out to try on Labor Day.  They were yummy, although squishing them with a fork made them kind of fall apart (maybe I boiled them too long?)  They were tasty though.  I used red potatoes and chives, [...]

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A taste of the garden

Now that our garden is starting to yield wonderful herbs for us such as basil, parsley, and cilantro, we have been planning our meals around what we can pick in our own backyard!  I had some leftover tomatoes from a meal earlier in the week (store bought, too early for home grown tomatoes!), so I [...]

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Sesame Chicken Pasta Salad

Tyler made this recipe last Saturday as a bit of a Valentine’s surprise.  I had to work that day and informed him that I did not want to have to do dishes at the end of the day, so while a nice elaborate romantic dinner would be great, I’d rather we just get pizza!  Instead [...]

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Something Different

Here’s another recipe I pulled out of an old issue of Real Simple. We were really pleased with it, I was surprised by how flavorful the mini-burgers were, and of course I loved the salad since I am a lover of all things couscous! This was such an easy meal to whip up, [...]

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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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A Spinach Salad

I know I said we weren’t really trying any new recipes this week but I lied!  Tyler requested I buy a bag of spinach last weekend and since we’d gone 4 days without using it I figured it was time I took matters into my own hands.  So I got a recommendation for what to [...]

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Roasted Broccoli

I’ve had this recipe bookmarked for a long long time, I’m not sure what took me so long to make it, but here ya go!  It was delicious!  Definitely a keeper.  I love roasting veggies, so easy and they taste so good!  My favorite way to eat broccoli is of course, covered in cheese.  Covers [...]

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Vegetable Stir-Fry

I was really happy with this recipe! Tyler said he thinks he’d like it more without the ginger, but my taste buds said it was fine You could change this recipe up with many different kinds of vegetables. I couldn’t find shiitake mushrooms (our store NEVER has them) so I [...]

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