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Cranberry Apple Almond Chicken Salad
Filed under Poultry, Salads, Sandwiches
Buffalo Chicken Skillet Pizza
How’s this for the first recipe of the year?!
And anyway how are you doing?
Happy? Healthy? Full of resolve to make this year great?
I hope so.
Blog Freebies I Love
It’s almost the New Year! A time when people make all kinds of plans and start all kinds of new stuff. So it seemed like kind of a good time to expand on the topic of blog stuff that I started awhile back and I have two fun things to share.
#1 – I added a new page called Blog Sweet Stuff where these posts will go to live so they can be referenced easily. It also tells you a little more about me and how I ended up here doing whatever this is and enjoying it immensely.
#2 – I made a list of free stuff you will need if you decide to go traipsing through blog territory. PLUS IT’S ALL FREE!!! And free stuff is fun.
Filed under "How-To" Food Blogging
Spiced Sweet Potato Biscuits
Because sweet potatoes are good for you.
Because in a few days people will be making a bunch of crazy biscuit-free resolutions and you need these before that happens!
Chicken Philly Sandwiches
This is my post for the end of the world.
Because if we’re all going out then I’d be completely okay with this sandwich as my last meal.
It’s Friday, marking the end of the Mayan calendar, yet another indicator of the end of the world. And I actually had plans for this whole post full of goodies, a list of allllll the things we should be eating on this supposed last day of regular earth, but two things happened: 1) I’m really busy. I am present wrapping and house scrubbing like a crazy lady because Friday is also the day we have Chad’s family over for Christmas gift exchanging, and 2) If you have these sandwiches on your last day you’ll be good to go.
Filed under Poultry, Sandwiches
Crock Pot Broccoli Soup
I love broccoli.
Is that a weird thing to love?
Broccoli seems like a super weird thing to have stuck at the end of a bunch of posts about cookies. Call it the broccoli-cookie-detox.
So anyway… broccoli soup. In my crock pot. I’ve had a thing for broccoli soup since I was little. I think once I had a bowl at a restaurant where my mom worked and I was hooked. If I see broccoli soup (cream of OR cheese… either way I’m happy) on a menu, chances are I’m gonna order it. My kids do not share my sentiment. They will eat broccoli without argument but not in soup. No sir.
Filed under Soups/Stews/Chili, Vegetarian
Carrot Cake Truffles
Carrot Cake Truffles… also known as How to Make Carrot Cake a Finger Food.
But these perfect little balls of carrot cake and cream cheese frosting were, for me, kind of bittersweet.
For those of you that know me, you know that I am basically not capable of sitting down and watching TV, but the background noise HAS to accompany me all day. If I don’t have the music cranked then the TV is on. And not just on, but like FULL BLAST. Because I don’t spend a whole lot of time looking at the TV. I just listen to it while I stay busy doing other things and glance up when the dialogue strikes me. For some reason I cannot process the information coming from the speakers at normal volume unless I’m actually watching. I think that this probably directly correlates to my having to turn the music down when I’m driving and lost or when traffic seems to demand my full attention… does anyone else have this problem?
Flourless Mocha Hazelnut Crunch Cookies
So here’s the deal:
Usually I turn my nose up at any and all baked goods recipes that advertise things like “flourless” or “gluten-free”. Or heaven forbid we make cookies sans the butter. There’s a time and place for healthy foods and in my book, cookies are not it. I should go ahead and insert my disclaimer here and let you know that I am in no way, shape, or form advocating that these cookies are healthy. They are cookies. But they ARE without flour and butter, and they are still super amazing.
Sugar Cut-Out Cookies & Royal Frosting
This post is actually all about celebration.
Today my baby sister graduated college. I could not be more proud of her. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!
So my whole family got together, and hollered EXTRA loudly at her Commencement Ceremony. We hugged her EXTRA tight at the following reception. We toasted her with EXTRA good champagne afterwards while we all dined together at a local restaurant. We gave presents and shared laughter and really took a little while to celebrate all of my sister’s hard work.
And I made cookies.
