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Continue reading →: Pumpkin Pie BarsCookie/graham cracker crumb crust + pumpkin pie spiced custard. I made these today in addition to the pecan pie bars and a handful of lovely humans asked for this recipe also so here you go fam: Ingredients Instructions Yes I am taking photos near my front door because it’s November…
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Continue reading →: Pecan Pie BarsI don’t have a story for these other than I had a craving and a manic episode, so I made them up by patching together a few different recipes, and now I need to write it down before I forget. I usually find pecan pie to be too sweet and…
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Continue reading →: Peach KuchenFinally going to make this digital because every single time I want to make it I turn my house inside out and then hours later finally text my mom to ask for the recipe. Why is there a photo of a cat in a peach box rather than a photo…
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Continue reading →: Lightning Stir FryI don’t know a single person who likes mushy vegetables (aside from things like mashed potatoes and roasted squash I mean). The problem I have with most fry-s of the stir variety is the veg turns to mush while you cook down the sauce. I reversed the order of our…
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Continue reading →: Labor of Love Chicken StockI have a post from 2013 that’s a stock recipe, and I was trying to edit it to be closer to what I do now (which is a two day process) but it was too much work so here’s the updated scoop: Ingredients 1 chicken carcass 1 large onion (halved)…
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Continue reading →: Breakfast BruschettaTime: 15 minutes, tops. 10 if you’re a master multi-tasker. Ordering a lot of takeout these days? How about pizza? That pizza come with a side of bread? Or are you like me and double down on carbs by ordering cheesy garlic bread WITH your pizza? Realize when the order…
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Continue reading →: Bottle of Wine Beef (aka Splatter City)Disclaimer: This is an Anne Burrell braised short ribs recipe. She is a national treasure. Trust the “brown food tastes good” queen. Do it. I made it with stew beef and short ribs because WHO CAN FIND SPECIFIC CUTS OF MEAT RIGHT NOW AND THAT’S WHAT I WOUND UP WITH…
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Continue reading →: Mabel the Ornery OvenMabel is 20-ish in human years, and an undisclosed older age with early onset dementia in oven years. She’s an electric GE 40″ wide with two ovens – one full sized one small – and a full 40″ storage drawer below. She’s white, and CONSTANTLY getting splattered with some kind…
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Continue reading →: Covid-19 Assumptions and ActualitiesFirst of all, thank goodness I am a high-functioning caffeineoholic. Without a steaming cup of coffee in my hand from 7am – 2pm I would fall the F apart during “all this craziness” as my daughter has now taken to saying. In context “maybe we can have a play date…
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Continue reading →: Alton Brown’s Overnight Cinnamon RollsHere’s the recipe for these incredible, and I do mean incredible, cinnamon rolls. [Insert 17 paragraphs here about how difficult and exhausting the past three weeks have been. We’re now on week four of this new normal: me working from home while also assuming the role of teacher on top…
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Welcome to my chaotic, nostalgic, cozy corner of the interwebs dedicated to the recipes I have rattling around in my brain and squirreled away on scraps of paper around the house.
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