Spectacular Salad with Salmon

I discovered this recipe last summer and I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve made it!  To change it up a bit we added salmon, which we had a ton of left over from dinner earlier this week.  This was a great way to liven up leftovers!  I was unable to find arugula this [...]

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2008: Year in Review

So here is my “best of 2008.”  Looking back it was clear to me which were the best because we made them over and over again, either for ourselves or to give to other people.  I definitely started cooking and baking less in the fall when I started grad school, but I’m hoping that I [...]

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Lean n Green

I’m still alive, I swear!  The semester is over and I can finally get back to cooking!  Tyler has been so great about cooking, he’s really done 90% of it the last month or so and I have been terrible about contributing (for example, I’m pretty sure some of the dirty dishes in there are [...]

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Cream of Mushroom Soup

Ya’ll, this soup is simply amazing.  Thanks a million to Nemmie who brought this soup to Cooking Club last week. It is my new favorite!  Easy to whip up in less than an hour.

Cream of Mushroom Soup
Ingredients:
– 3 Tbsp. butter
– 1/2 of a yellow onion, chopped
– 3-4 garlic cloves, minced
– 1 lb. ground turkey
– 1 [...]

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Cooking Club: Cookbook Swap

This month we kept it pretty simple by doing a potluck and cookbook swap: the catch?  You had to make a recipe out of the cookbook you were giving away!  We had a wide variety of dishes, and all of them were delicious (which made the cast-off cookbooks up for grabs more appealing!)  We drew [...]

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A Simple Salad

This weekend we gave our apartment a thorough cleaning, weeding out old clothes, shoes, books, and magazines we don’t need anymore. I decided to flip through my old issues of Real Simple and tore out quite a few recipes that appealed to me but that I had yet to try. It made meal [...]

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Smitten by Pancakes

I have not been doing anything impressive in our kitchen recently, lots of baking cookies and heating up frozen pizza. Just can’t seem to get motivated to make big meals anymore! Last night I tried a new recipe for pancakes, since the box of Hungry Jack mix leaves something to be desired! [...]

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peanut butter chocolate chip cookies

I’ve had this recipe bookmarked for quite some time now and they did not disappoint!  I forgot to squish the first batch with a fork so they came out dense and not so good, but I remembered from then on out and the rest were perfect!
The Best Peanut Butter Cookies (as seen on Baking Blonde’s [...]

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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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