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Pan sauteed beef tenderloin, twice-cooked broccoli with a balsamic reduction,...
Yeesh. You can tell by the length of the title that this was a complicated meal. It’s probably the most complicated meal I’ve ever prepared, or at least the one with the most things simultaneously...
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Triple D homemade mac and cheese
I’ve been stopping in at the excellent cheese store Pastoral on my way home from work once every few weeks. On a recent trip I picked up some of Milton Creamery’s Prairie Breeze cheddar (better...
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Spiced turkey burgers with goat cheese and honey
In a recent trip to Peoria Meat Market, I picked up a ton of on-sale ground turkey, so expect to see a bunch of turkey dishes coming up on the blog. For our first feat, we decided to make turkey...
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Sun-dried tomato turkey meatballs with walnut pesto
Continuing our quest to get rid of the massive amounts of ground turkey in our freezer (who am I kidding, this is a problem I love to have!), we decided to make some meatballs. Abby has been doing...
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New York Times chocolate chip cookies
Everyone has a chocolate chip cookie recipe that they swear by. Unfortunately, everyone, I’m here to tell you that you’re wrong (just kidding… kind of). I made these New York Times chocolate chip...
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Beecher’s cheese sauce homemade mac and cheese
Last time we made mac and cheese it turned out pretty good, but we thought we could do better. Digging around on my favorite food site in the world, foodgawker, I found this recipe from My Cooking...
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Double chocolate chip cookies
Sometimes, chocolate chip cookies just don’t have enough chocolate. I’m a massive chocoholic, so this is true for me a lot of the time. After trying a few different recipes for the extreme chocolate...
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Italian sausage pasta sauce
One of the main reasons I started this blog was to give myself a reason to cook more. Unfortunately, most of the time I get home from work too tired to do anything constructive, so I end up ordering...
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Walnut pesto
Pasta is one of the easiest things in the world to make, so I do it often. I thought it might be nice to get a little variety in the types of frozen sauces that I have on hand, so after the Italian...
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Slow cooker pulled pork
BAM! Look at that beautiful hunk of meat. There are few things that make me happier than pulling out a giant slab of pork shoulder and getting it ready for the slow cooker. First of all, it means I’m...
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Kettle’s on: Brewing Four More Beers, the White House Honey Ale
I’ve been wanting to get up a post about brewing beer for a while (heck, I’ve been meaning to get up a post about anything for a while). This is a beer I actually brewed a year ago, but it’s also the...
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