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This little bundle of joy is the secret to awesome soup. Fresh thyme, parsley and bay leaves wrapped in cheesecloth simmer quietly in chicken broth to flavor your soup with the perfect seasoning blend. Add cream, dry sherry and wild rice and you have a chicken soup that is so good that you’ll wish illness …
This is comfort food at it’s finest. For us this was a new recipe that I followed exactly and after the family devoured it was agreed that the original recipe is perfection. This was an easy meal for a Sunday and paired very well with mashed potatoes and corn. If you have about an hour …
I had a craving for peanut butter cookies today. I started looking around to see if I could find anything interesting as far as recipes go. I saw lots of interesting things, cookies filled with 41 different types of chocolate or gluten free and super healthy, but that was not what I was looking for. …
When it comes to making pizza at home, you have quite a few options. There are frozen dough balls and precooked shells, those fresh-ish ones sold in the deli aisle, powdered mixes, “fresh” dough balls in the refrigerator section and even some pizza shops will sell you their dough. Buy, why go through all of …
The name garbage bread probably doesn’t invoke a lot of great culinary emotions, but don’t let the name hold you back, this is a great recipe. It’s a great recipe for a party or for the big game. It takes only a few ingredients and anyone can make it. It is a real crowd pleaser. …
These strawberry lemon breakfast muffins were not my favorite, but since my 3 year old ate three of them so far today I thought that I’d ask her what to write about them. Me: “Tell me about your muffin.” K: “You take pictures of them.” Me: “How do they taste?” K: “Good. They my favorite …
Let me begin this with a warning. Knowing how to make a truly great Crème Brûlée at home is dangerous. My wife and I came to appreciate a good Crème Brûlée at a local restaurant. It’s a common destination for our date nights because it is close and has really good food, but mostly for the Crème Brûlée. …
Another one of my Thai takeout favorites is Pad Thai. Since the spicy fried rice turned out so well, I decided to try my hand at making Pad Thai. From my searching, I found that there are quite a few variations on this recipe, some of them are quite complicated and some are pretty basic. …
Valentine’s Day is all about celebrating love. Today we celebrate this recipe, which I LOVE. My mother made these cookies for all sorts of holidays for as far back as I can remember. I remember having to bring extras in my lunchbox for my friends because they too were hooked on Mom’s butter cookies. …
On Sundays I like to prepare meals that take a little longer to cook. Sometimes I choose recipes that are more involved. Not today! Lately our kitchen gets a workout on Sundays, as we bake the week’s bread and lunch treats. Eric was also bustling around the kitchen today too. When all of that was …