The lovely folks over at RawSpiceBar sent me some delicious spices to check out! Anyone who knows me knows how much I love these types of subscription "surprise" boxes and I was actually over the moon that they sent me TWO of the September batch. ...
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Pumpkin Spice Cake and Happy Thanksgiving!
It's Thanksgiving morning and Justin and I are getting ready to cook up a small storm. Not hurricane-sized, but more like a small rain shower. Justin had a day off this week while I had to work, but I came home to this Pumpkin Spice Cake and was ...
Chocolate-Filled Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
Six words...chocolate, filled, peanut, butter, sandwich, cookies. If that isn't enough to tempt you to make these gorgeously golden little beauties, then maybe knowing the recipe is from Deb Perelman's book will. I love, love, love her recipes ...
Spring Onion Noodle Soup with Lemon Sour Cream and Herbed Cheese Toast
School is finally out for the semester and I'm completely over the moon! The first dish we made after I wrapped up my last assignment was this Spring Onion Noodle Soup. We first made it about two years ago and it's been a spring time favorite ever ...
Chipotle Baked Chicken with Cilantro-Lime Rice
August 2nd. That was the day I did my last post. One hundred and forty five whopping days ago! It makes me sad to think about how little I get to work on something that I love doing so much, but I only have two more semesters in my Master's ...
Mexican Salad with Chicken and Creamy Lime-Avocado Dressing
I can very clearly remember the salad we had almost every other night while I was growing up. It was iceberg lettuce with thick diced tomatoes, shredded carrots from a bag, some sort of shredded mixed cheddar, and then a thick ranch or blue cheese ...
Raspberry, Lemon, and Poppy Seed Muffins
I seem to have a penchant for any type of lemon sweet (as seen here, here, and here). And this one is made even more delicious by the fresh raspberries! In Colorado, prime raspberry season is during the months of July through September. (Check ...
Slow Cooker Moroccan Short Ribs With Couscous
So I have this weird thing about fruit being cooked with meat. I think it's...well, weird. I don't mean lemons or tomatoes, I mean like fruity fruits (apples, nectarines, grapes, pears, etc.). And despite being proven wrong each and every time I ...