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Buffalo Chicken and Chickpea Quesadillas
Pre-cooked chicken is my secret weapon when throwing together dinner in a flash. You can use rotisserie chickens from the store, or pre-cooked chickens that you’ve prepared yourself. It’s so easy and economical (and stress reducing) to know that you have something in your fridge that can be made into several meals.
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These quesadillas cook up so fast, and…
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No Brainer Roasted Chicken Thighs
I’ve been spring cleaning. While I do not ENJOY cleaning and organizing, I like how having clean spaces enables me to do more of the creative work I love to do.
I’m five days into my OPERATION UNASS SPRING 2024 and I really needed to throw dinner together in a fast and easy way. I asked my teens and my husband to start some rice in the rice cooker and bring home a bagged salad – and that’s…
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One-Pan Roasted Chicken Thighs and Sausages
Fast, easy, simple. This beautiful dinner comes together in only 45 minutes and with minimal effort. I serve this with steamed rice. Everyone loves it!
To avoid overcooking the bell peppers and onions, roast the seasoned chicken thighs and Italian sausages for twenty minutes before adding sliced bell pepper and sliced onion. Roast for twenty more minutes and dinner is ready.
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Sundried Tomato Hummus
This fresh made hummus is so delicious. You’ll be amazed at all the flavors, especially if you are accustomed to store-bought hummus. This is a great dish to take to a gathering any time of the year! People love it!
Sundried Tomato Hummus
An absolute explosion of flavor and sensation. This will be a hit at any gathering. So easy to whip up using the food processor. For best results, refrigerate…
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Simple Dinner Salad with Fresh Mustard Vinaigrette Dressing
I think with the convenience of bagged salads and bottled dressing, we often forget how simple it is to pick greens out by hand and make a fresh homemade dressing. I find that a custom-assembled salad and fresh dressing is just SO GOOD. It’s fresh, crunchy, juicy and balanced in flavor between sweet, salty, vinegary and peppery.
This simple dinner salad is a common-sense combination of green…
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Authentic From-Scratch Chicken and Dumplings
This is the kind of dish that will transform a regular Saturday or Sunday into a memorable, cozy day.
Chicken and dumplings is really just a stew without potatoes or any other starches in the stew portion. Instead, it’s topped with raw biscuit dough and the dough is allowed to steam and puff up into perfect little orbs of soft, pillowy pastry.
Plan to spend 5-7 hours in total on this recipe.…
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Royal Icing for “Flooding” Sugar Cookies
This icing is made with meringue powder – a product made with pasteurized egg whites. You can confidently make this icing without worrying about salmonella – a risk always when using fresh egg whites in a product that is not cooked.
To “flood” a sugar cookie, outline each cookie by piping a thick border. Let the border dry a little, then “flood” the inside of the cookie. The border will prevent…
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Fresh Blueberry Pancakes
There is nothing like savoring a fresh weekend morning like making a batch of pancakes.
Make these when you find some big, juicy fresh blueberries at the market. Be sure to remove all blueberry stems and withered blossoms before using. It’s a good idea to rinse fresh blueberries and lay them out on a clean dry towel to dry. Pick over the blueberries and remove any smooshed or otherwise…
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Simple Fococcia Bread
A soft, delicious bread studded with buttery roasted garlic cloves and fragrant rosemary. You could also add Kalamata olives if you’d like. A light dusting of a hard cheese like Parmesan after the bread bakes gives it a savory, salty finish. This bread is EASY. In fact, I recommend this bread for first-time bakers. For a well-practiced baker, consider this a very simple bread to accompany a full…
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Roasted Mediterranean Vegetables
A big pan of these vegetables disappears in seconds at my house. Whether we’re loading up large bowls of it and eating it while curled up on the sofa (comfort food!), scooping it up with crostini (baby toasts) or serving it at a side dish, this recipe is so easy, so simple and so very epically delicious.
Roasted Mediterranean Vegetables
Eggplant, zucchini, red bell peppers and garlic roast…
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Buttermilk Cornbread
This is my favorite kind of cornbread because the edges are slightly crackly and the insides are soft and cakey. The buttermilk makes this twangy and delectable. A family favorite!
Buttermilk Cornbread
A delicious cornbread that is crispy on the outside and moist and cakey on the inside. I bake this bread in a hot 14 inch cast iron skillet. If you do not have a large cast iron skillet use a…
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Broiled Flank Steak
A quick marinating process is all you need to get this flank steak started. It broils in just minutes making it a fast, easy and delicious dinner.
Marinates in 2-4 hours – although you can marinate for longer if it’s convenient for you.
I’ve served this with mushroom risotto, with mashed potatoes, atop a spinach salad, and most recently with vegetable lo mien. It’s always excellent.
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Roasted Garlic and Cheddar Bread
This is a no-fuss gorgeous bread that you can make and serve on the same day. You’ll need to reserve about four hours start to finish for making this bread, although you’ll only need to work at it for a total of about ten minutes.
I use my heavy duty stand mixer to make this bread.
Roasted Garlic and Cheddar Bread
A delicious rustic bread studded with buttery roasted garlic, cheddar…
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My Family's Favorite Buttermilk Pancakes
These are the pancakes that my family has been making for decades. At first, I was the one who always made the pancakes. Then I taught my husband to make the pancakes and he took over for many years – as “breakfast time Daddy” – the fun dad who would make pancakes on a Saturday morning so I could sleep in. Then, the kids all learned how to make the pancakes, and now my husband and I can both…
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Simple Roasted Chicken
There are so many ways to make a roasted chicken great. This is my easiest, most simple way to prepare roasted chicken. Sometimes I think I like the flavor and texture of this chicken the most. You really taste the “chickeny” chicken here. The white pepper on this chicken is really good – I highly recommend using white pepper over black pepper for a simple chicken like this.
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Crispy-Topped Roasted Pork Belly
Even a reluctant carnivore will be transformed into an enthusiastic carnivore when a properly-cooked pork belly is presented. The ribbons of fat turn into lush, juicy bites of flavor and the crispy, crackly pork skin, bubbled to perfection, is the thing you never knew your teeth were wishing they could chomp into. Crunch, crunch, crunch.
There are three things to remember when you are roasting…
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Irish Soda Bread
For a long time I was of the mind that Irish Soda Bread had to be made as frugally as possible. Just some flour, baking soda, salt and buttermilk. As it’s a peasant’s bread, I was not too far off. Being 99.6% Irish myself, I felt as if I was betraying the struggle of my ancestors to be as “extra” as to add EGGS and SUGAR to my Irish Soda Bread. Oh, the horrors! “They didn’t have an egg to…
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