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Easy One Pan Caprese Chicken Easy 30 Minute One Pan Caprese Chicken is the perfect easy dinner recipe. Is it accessible enough for a beginner? This is a great recipe for beginners. There are very few ingredients and no special techniques. Is it quick enough to make on busy …
Restaurant Quality Shrimp Scampi at Home Seafood is my favorite food. I’m not sure I have ever eaten a seafood dish I didn’t like. As a kid, I would eat some fairly terrible seafood TV dinner on Friday night and I could not wait! In …
Saving Money with Homemade Beef with Broccoli There is a super good Chinese restaurant in my town. Their food is absolutely delicious. The best way I can describe it is, “clean.” Do you know what I’m going for here? Not oily. Crisp, fresh. Also? Very …
Summer Produce: Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes The end of summer – and my vacation – is rapidly approaching. I can’t believe I am already going back to school on Monday! One thing that isn’t ending, though, is a supply of farm fresh produce. Yesterday a …
Fake Takeout: Shrimp Fried Rice I don’t like to go out. If the pandemic taught me anything, it’s just how much I love staying home. While other people were discovering cooking and baking and crafts like they had just been invented, I was able to …
Cooking Sort of Italian with an Italian Skillet Dinner Have we ever discussed how I found out I am part Italian? I can’t remember. My dad, retired and bored, decided to look into our background. His parents were pretty easy. Almost everyone in his family …
Is it a Pizza or a Quesadilla? It’s a Mexican Pizza Quesadilla! Can something be both a pizza and a quesadilla at the same time? It is, of course, a deep philosophical question, one for the ages. And yes, I have decided – because I …
Baked Feta Pasta – Without the TikTok I love feta cheese and tomatoes and red onions, so making this baked feta pasta seemed like a no-brainer. Apparently it was a thing on TikTok? The only thing I know about TikTok is that it has influenced …
My New Takeout Fakeout: Honey Sesame Chicken My husband and I aren’t super big into eating out. We’re pretty conservative with the way we spend money (that’s a polite way of saying sort of cheap), so extra things, like restaurants and ordering in aren’t really …
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 …
