Cooking

{Tips & Tricks} Baking Muffins

Let’s play a little guessing game…You usually see them (or smell them) as soon as you step into a coffee house, cafe, bakery…or my house. They are flavorful, hearty and come in a variety of different flavors. They tend to have a crisp top with a piping hot inside that is light and fluffy. They…

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Taco Soup

I’ve been on a huge Mexican food kick lately. If it were up to me, I would be eating tacos, enchiladas, fajitas and quesadillas every day. I love everything about it…thinking about it, cooking it, eating it…I love it. Another type of food that I crave, and have for lunch on most days, is soup….

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Peanut Butter and White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Blondies

This post originally appeared on the The Confident Mom’s Blog, where How To: Simplify regularly contributes monthly guest posts filled with tips, tricks and recipes to simplify life in the kitchen. I recently discovered that blondies are my absolute favorite treat. They are chewy and flavorful with wonderful undertones of molasses due to the brown…

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Pesto Pasta Salad

We recently went to a Field Day for my husband’s work during which we stuffed our faces with grilled chicken sandwiches, potato chips and a delicious pesto pasta salad. My husband fell in love with the salad at first bite and immediately turned to me and said that I absolutely had to recreate it at…

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Banana Muffins with Crumb Topping

Is it strange that I actually look forward to bananas becoming fully ripened with peels covered in brown spots? Bananas, also known as a climacteric fruit, are able to ripen after being harvested. They are picked and shipped green and then ripen usually while at the store or at home. As you are well aware,…

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{Tips & Tricks} Making Pesto

Last year when I visited my parent’s house I was immediately inspired by their herb and vegetable gardens. They had beautiful tomatoes, amazing green beans and aromatic herbs. When I was planning my garden prior to spring this year, I decided to put that inspiration to work. After stopping by the store to purchase seedlings,…

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Cornbread

I’ll get straight to the point: Cornbread is delicious. Soups, salads, stews, fried foods, grilled meats…you name it, cornbread is the perfect complement to many styles of food. For Christmas, my Mom, the creative lady that she is, put together a bunch of “recipes in a jar” and handed them out to family and friends….

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