Can you tell, I am into warm, filling comfort food right now? It’s fall here finally and the temperatures have dropped a bit. We also had the first rain recently. This soup will warm you right up when you come back from a long walk through the neighborhood. I just love soups...
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I promised you a gnocchi recipe earlier this week, so I am going to deliver on this promise. The original recipe called for pork sausage and cream in the recipe. I lightened it up by using turkey sausage and half & half instead. I also almost always replace chicken broth...
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NaBloPoMo-Sundays will be for sharing some of my most recent favorite recipes. J and I have been trying a lot of new recipes lately. Some were kind of meh, others were instant successes and will be added to our recipe folder. This salad was one of our instant favorites. I...
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Since we’re still dealing with triple digit temperatures here in the Central Valley, we’re also still trying to keep our cooking to a minimum and use stove and oven as sparingly as possible. J and I both are fans of chicken salad but have usually just made it as chicken...
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As I mentioned last week, I had been thinking about baking something for the weekend. Baking makes everything better and after the news that came out of Charlotteville on Saturday, I definitely needed something ‘to make things (just a tiny bit) better’, if only to soothe my aching heart. Obviously,...
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Are you a fan of coleslaw? I find, people either love it or hate it. I fall into the former camp. I love me some good cole slaw. My mom always used to make it from scratch, so I am pretty spoiled, I guess. I know, shredding the cabbage is...
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Sometimes we get into the habit of cooking the same things over and over again, so you might recall that one of my goals for last month was to try a few new dishes. We tried a few, but this one stood out in particular and we have made this...
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Here’s the recipe that I promised you yesterday! I think I have shared the recipe before, but it’s been a while and I thought I would share it again for my new readers. Like every good German, I am slightly obsessed with bread (surprise!) and if you’ve been around this...
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