Butternut Squash & Apple “Cobbler” Bake, crockpot style
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I really really wish autumn would get here and stay here already. Here in middle Tennessee, we're experiencing cold-ish nights and 80-something degree days. Ick. Because I recently started school again, I decided it was time to invest in the grand daddy of all crockpots--the programmable kind with automatic warm setting when your dish is finished. This baby even has a meat probe that will turn the appliance to warm once the meat's internal temp reaches the desired heat. AND I caught a sale at Kohl's, so it wasn't nearly as expensive as I was thinking it was going to...
Stuffed Portobella Mushrooms: Pizza Style
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Have you ever gone to the grocery store, and they have these portobello mushrooms all wrapped up and prettily stuffed with mozzarella and spinach? I see them all the time, and I always think to myself, "I could do that." But I never do. This past week, though, I did. I could not think of anything for dinner. I didn't really have any instant cravings for anything, so I grabbed my own portobellos, and I brought them home because I had the cheese and baby spinach at home. As usual, something else struck me as I was making these, and I...
Ashley’s Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
On most Sundays, I get this urge to bake. We're making brunch, and I just keep cooking. Today, I was in the mood for cookies. I saw a recipe in Southern Inspired magazine that I picked up for free at the gym a couple months ago. The recipe was for Oatmeal Blueberry Cookies, but it involved creaming butter and sugar, and I really wasn't in the mood for all that cleaning. My favorite vegan blogger, SusanV over at FatFree Vegan Kitchen: Sinlessly Delicious, rarely mixes anything in a mixer when baking (mainly because she doesn't use...
Recipe Review: Paula Deen’s Gorilla Bread
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My husband saw this recipe this past weekend, and he insisted on making it. His mom usually makes monkey bread for Christmas morning, and it is a serious favorite. Gorilla bread is apparently monkey bread on steroids...meaning the sweet biscuit bites are filled with cream cheese and cinnamon sugar. I'm gonna go ahead and tell you that it is a 5 out of 5, a 10 out of 10, and 100%! I was going to take off points for the high calorie content, but these little nuggets of deliciousness are just too good. And I just can't make myself care because...
Thai-Inspired Peanut Sauce and Vietnamese Spring Rolls
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When we visited Austin, Texas a few weeks ago, J's brother and his fiance took us to a Vietnamese sandwich shop called Bite Mi. I had never really heard of sandwiches with all the delicious Vietnamese flavors like that of the signature pho, but I tell you what! These sandwiches were awesome. They also had these crazy canned beverages like Chrysanthemum tea or Jasmine Green tea which were both delicious. To top it all off (and my favorite part of the experience), their side item to the sandwich was a spring roll. Not the fried kind--The cold, basil, mint, noodle,...
Dropped off the face of the earth.
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So school started back at the beginning of August. But I was there at the tale end of July for teacher meetings and stuff. And I have been trying to get a chance to post the entire time! Things have gotten crazy around here. I haven't even had time to read my friends' blogs and the other usual daily blogs I read. So I guess I should recap what's been going on and tell you what some future posts are going to be about. 'Cause I've had a reawakening in the kitchen. What's been happenin': had a great 4th of July...
Honey Lime Shrimp Kabobs
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You know when you have a big project and you tell yourself you will not do anything else until it is finished? That is what I feel like these days. A 264 page publication is set to come out in August, and I need to get it done. But I do have to cook. And last night I had a creative moment in the form of this marinade. We bought some great shrimp at Publix, and the evening had cooled off enough to use the grill. Unfortunately, our propane tank lost its juice. But that's okay because these kabobs can...
Pam’s Broccoli Salad
Recently, my mom visited our old home town (the one they moved away from after Katrina because it would never be the same anymore). She stayed with my cousin Pam. I always did enjoy going to her house for Thanksgivings and Christmases because I am an only child, but I love LOVE big family gatherings. Pam has two great kids who I used to babysit when I was in high school. I can't believe one has graduated high school, and the other is a senior this year! While visiting, Pam made this broccoli salad. When m0m told me about it, I...
Mama’s Summer Peach Pie
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Sometimes I could just hit myself. I made a peach pie yesterday, ate a slice before it set in the refrigerator, and only THEN realized that my blogger friends might like this! I am smack dab in the middle of finishing the yearbook, and I think I am delirious. If you've ever worked on a yearbook, you understand the nightmares involved in publishing 268 pages of (mostly) student work. I say "mostly" because I simply have to do some of it because folks disappear in the summer. But it's cool. I don't mind it...too much. Which is why this pie is...
Mojito Love
I have loved mojitos for as long as I can remember. I have always tried to make them by some recipe I found online or in a cocktail book, but it just was not good. We have SOOO much mint that grew back this year, so I really felt the pressure more than ever to make a good mojito. It didn't help my cravings when we were at the beach one day, and my sister-in-law mentioned how a cabana boy would make our little (almost) private beach perfect. Because it so nearly is perfect already. No high rise condos, no...
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