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The Breakfast Smashburger is Born What is your breakfast story, friends? Here is mine: I can’t eat “real” food. The problem is that I eat breakfast at 5:30 AM, so the idea of anything more than half a toasted bagel is too much for my …
Cheesecake: A Horror Story Gather round for a story, children. One day, many years ago, our next door neighbors had a party. The next day, the woman came over with a cheesecake that hadn’t been eaten. When we cut into it, the inside oozed out, …
A New Way to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day: Guinness Beef Stew In my quest to find new alternatives to corned beef and cabbage, I have created this beef stew with Guinness, an Irish stout. Stout? I generally don’t drink, so I have no idea what …
Chocolate Pudding – But Not I tend to eat like a child, so it is not surprising that one of my absolutely favorite foods is chocolate pudding. Not just any chocolate pudding, mind you, but this very specific brand, My-T Fine. It is the pudding …
Shepherd’s pie is one of those hearty, feel good meals that are great when it is cold and gray and you need something comforting. I especially like it because it is a sort of one stop shopping experience: no need to make sides when there …
The Quiche Basics My mom sense really kicked in after last week’s recipe, chocolate peanut butter cup bars. They were delicious, but not exactly nutritious, and I’m feeling a little guilty – like I should be feeding you better. Which is why today, we will …
I woke up yesterday thinking about peanut butter. Specifically, I wondered what kinds of things I could make from peanut butter. I took a quick tour of the internet to see what other people were doing. There were lots of peanut butter and chocolate tarts …
A couple of times a month, my husband and I head over to have tea with a 92-year old friend. That probably sounds like we’re doing some sort of service for an old person, but that is not at all how it is. This woman …
In the same way that I have nostalgia for childhood foods, so too, does my husband sometimes request things he ate as a kid. But whereas I sometimes feel like having PopTarts or Lucky Charms or Spaghetti O’s with little meatballs, my husband wants some …
I think I have had actual s’mores maybe once in my entire life. Thinking it over, I’m not exactly sure how that happened. First, I was the Girl Scout of all Girl Scouts. Second, 99% of our vacations while our kids were growing up were …
