If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I found this recipe on Pinterest and changed it a bit to suit my preferences.  We had these for lunch and my kids just loved them!  I tripled this recipe so that I’d have some leftover to stick in...
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When we were in Chile this spring for our daughter’s wedding, we were invited to the home of her ‘host mom’ Gina. Gina is a wonderfully gracious hostess and a fabulous cook. While we were there, she served us eggplant lasagna.  It was so delicious that I requested the recipe on the spot.  She...
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I found the recipe for this lovely cinnamon bread over at JoyTheBaker.  Best gobbled fresh and hot out of the oven.
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I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I like to make my own salad dressings.  Here are my three favorites.  If you want more variety, my cookbook has several others as well.  I find that pint sized canning jars are perfectly sized for these recipes.  All of them come together in just a few minutes...
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When I was in Oklahoma City last week, I ate with my friend Layla at a yummy Mexican restaurant whose name I keep forgetting.  They had a wonderful cilantro lime rice that I decided to give a try at home.  Since I’m all about making things easy, I decided to make it in my...
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I saw this recipe over at EatLiveRun the other day and had to give it a shot.  Since I was too lazy to actually look up the recipe when I got to the kitchen, I kind of made up my own version.  I almost ran to the store for tortilla chips after making it–...
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Menu planning and need inspiration?  Here are some handy-dandy linkies for your perusal.                
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…and one that I did. (Note to anyone bored with recipe links:  this type of post happens when recipe tabs have lined my tool bar for days and I just want to put them someplace safe so I won’t forget them!) {Serious Eats} Make-your-own Crème Fraîche — Confession, I have gotten this far in...
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This afternoon we took the kids out to play laser tag, a first for me– it was great fun!  We got home hungry around 6 PM and I was eager to get a meal on the table quickly.  Hubby requested something with beef, so I decided to make Ethiopian Sloppy Joes.  It’s not necessarily...
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Fantabulous-looking recipes I book-marked this week: Andrea Meyers: Cranberry Orange Ricotta Muffins Centsational Girl: Sour Cream Enchiladas Jersey Girl Cooks:  12 Minute Lasagna EatLiveRun: Salted Fudge Brownies Here’s one of mine that I posted last week at MyRecipes.com and forgot to tell you about: Sausage Sandwich Braid.  It is from Family Feasts for $75...
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