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Fresh outta the oven cookies. Warm, CHEWY, with those still-melting chocolate chips. Yes, yes, and yes. So basically, my biggest pet peeve is cookies that DON’T STAY CHEWY. How disappointing is that? I mean, nothing beats a fresh outta the oven cookie, but really. I want the cookies I eat on day 2, 3, and even 4 of baking them…
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Load up your autumn bucket list with these delicious fall recipes, including my family’s tried-and-true favorites and the new recipes on MY fall bucket list. Irony is writing a blog post about the best fall recipes while is 90 degrees outside. Irony is also making a massive slow cooker full of piping hot chicken wild rice soup while it is…
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If there’s one thing I can’t get enough of during the summer season, it’s grill-out food. Whether it’s a barbecue with the neighbors on the books, grilling out with the fam, or a church potluck, nothing says summertime like some grill marks and a plentiful array of tempting side dishes. This, my friends, is one of my absolute favorite go-to…
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With the return of Monday, I’m inevitably thinking meal planning. Rather than planning meals for the whole week, I often just pick a few new recipes and then rely on making simple dishes from our regular grocery store staples the rest of the week. It’s a balance between flexibility and planning that works well for us. Currently, life has been…
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Mmk, does anyone actually NOT like French Silk Pie? If so, maybe go ahead and treat that as a rhetorical question, because then we can still be friends. But I digress. Here’s the thing. In my mind, French Silk Pie is absolute dessert perfection, except for a few small details. First. Is there ever enough? No, no there is not….
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Once you’ve decided to host a baby shower (or any kind of shower!) one of the first things that comes to mind is probably food. Picking the perfect shower menu usually seems pretty doable…until you remember so-and-so’s cousin is gluten-free, there’s a vegetarian or two attending, and of course the ever-dieting Aunt Whomever on the guest list. Suddenly that glamorous…
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