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Mashed Potatoes Recipe
I never knew so many people struggle with preparing mashed potatoes at home! I frequently hear from readers or friends that they consistently fail with mashed potatoes. And conversely, people...
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Cream of Mushroom Soup Recipe
With Soup Swap 2011 right around the corner, I’m back to blogging with my recipe for Cream of Mushroom Soup. Mushroom Soup may well come in in more variations than any other soup outside of tortilla....
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Chopped Romaine Salad with Lane’s Favorite Vinaigrette Recipe
This simple salad has been one of my favorites of the year. It requires you to step away from the pre-washed bagged lettuce, but I think Romaine hearts are one of the easiest lettuces to prepare. If...
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Flounder Fillets and Lemon-Garlic Wilted Spinach Recipe
It’s possible my children are aliens. Or perhaps that’s just the announcement of the 3rd snow day in a row talking. Either way, the four year old cried at dinner that what he really wanted was...
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Beer Can Chicken on the Grill
One of our tried and true staples back since my Round Rock days has been beer can chicken. First and foremost, who doesn’t love a recipe that starts off 1) Open beer, 2) Drink half… (I feel like Jim...
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Roasted Chicken Breasts with Artichokes, Mushrooms, and Capers
It’s been an absurdly long time since I posted a new recipe. It really wasn’t intentional; I’ve just been doing other things. Many people asked if I stopped cooking or was quitting the blog. As for...
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Spiced Flank Steak and Stir Fry with Celery Recipe
To combat the inertia threatening to lock me in a culinary bell jar, I’ve been rereading an old stack of the now defunct Gourmet Magazine. Looking for a flavor, an ingredient, a style I’d forgotten...
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Chicken Tetrazzini Recipe
Blasted tech support. I spent the whole day yesterday trying to get this post onto my site. Someone asked me for a chicken tetrazzini recipe. I can’t remember who it was, SMIL perhaps? Someone...
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Haricots Verts with Almonds Recipe (Tiny French Green Beans)
“Crunchy Green Beans with Almonds and Butter!” cries the smallest of my small ones. Not that he’s very small any more, as he’s approaching his fifth birthday. This is likely both my children’s very...
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Roasted Chicken Breasts with Whiskey Portabella Mushroom Pan Sauce Recipe
This week Central Market had the most beautiful local portabella mushroom caps on display. Though I’ve never been able to pull off the portabella burger (it’s a texture thing), I absolutely love the...
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Trisha Yearwood’s Barbecue Chicken Recipe and how it saved us from a million...
If you are suffering from boredom and inertia in your weekday meals, I have found the perfect recipe for you to add into your repertoire. Since the arrival of our third child, sweet Baby Hiatt, my...
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No picture sadly, but I’ve missed writing recipes. I have a backlog of photos without recipes written down and recipes without photos. At this point I find I’m killing myself with wasted time, trying...
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Tart Cherry Pie Recipe
Cherry Pie reminds me of Lums Diner in Peoria, hot tea, good friends, and deep conversation. Back in my high school days, my crowd and I would congregate at the the Lums Diner, as years of soul...
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Extra Soft Snickerdoodle Recipe
This Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe is the most requested cookie recipe from my husband and children. It’s taken some adjusting over the years, but the end result is perfect. My personal three cardinal...
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Grilled Chicken Mint Salad Recipe with Lemon Balsamic Dressing
Grilled Chicken Mint Salad with Lemon Balsamic Vinaigrette Recipe This grilled chicken salad was inspired by my favorite salad at La Duni Restaurant, the Pollo Asado a la Menta Limon. I forgot about...
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Creamy White Bean Soup Recipe with Bacon Crumble Topping
Winter is here, and with it comes my favorite, soup season. Second only to cooking with cognac season. The best soups start with bones, so as you bake those holiday hams, chickens, and turkeys – be...
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Julia’s Chocolate Bottom Crusted Chocolate Pie Recipe
This is the Chocolate Bottom Crusted Chocolate Pie I made for Julia, a friend of my daughter, when her grandfather passed away. Hers had meringue on top, but I’m a big fan of real whipped cream over...
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Chicken Clagiving Homemade Stuffing Recipe
My kids love Chicken Clagiving night. That’s what they named our version of not Thanksgiving – with Roasted Chicken, Gravy, Homemade Stuffing, and Mashed Potatoes. The key to stuffing (or croutons...
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Fresh Basil Pesto Recipe
You simply can’t beat freshly made basil pesto. Store bought doesn’t hold a candle. The key to this recipe, in my opinion, is that the Fresh Basil comes directly from a living plant – and a pretty...
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Baby Bok Choy Recipe
Baby Bok Choy is my favorite new vegetable. They are so adorably cute, delicious, fast, and easy! I think the flavor is a little like softened celery – very, very mild. Baby Bok Choy is very low...
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