Side Dish: Fennel Roasted Carrots

Side Dish: Fennel Roasted Carrots

  Recipe RundownTaste: Refreshingly sweet.Texture: My carrots ended up being more crunchy then I would have liked so I edited to recipe to chop the carrot pieces small so...

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Pumpkin. Yum.  I hope you like it as much as I do because you’ll probably be seeing a lot more pumpkin recipes to come. Like the maple cinnamon sugar...

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Essential Skills: How to Sharpen your Knives

This is a follow-up post to my first Essential Skills post, “How to Buy a Knife“. Now that you know what to look for in a high-quality knife you...

Honey Brushed Chicken Thighs

Weeknight Cooking: Spicy Honey-Brushed Chicken Thighs

Originally when I added this recipe to my weekly menu and shopping list I hadn’t planned on photographing and posting it here. I guess I wasn’t expecting much of...

Maple Cinnamon-Sugar Baked Donuts

Maple Cinnamon-Sugar Baked Donuts

Today’s high temperature here in Arizona was 96 degrees F. Sadly, in comparison to the previous weeks today was cool. While I’m positively ecstatic to wear cardigans and boots...

Healthy Chicken-Zucchini Alfredo

Healthy Chicken-Zucchini Alfredo

I write this post as I’m eying the digital clock at the upper corner of my computer screen. Not since kindergarten have I started classes after 11 a.m. and...

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Take-out at Home: Mongolian Beef

Ordering take-out can get expensive and who knows exactly what is in that plastic or Styrofoam container they hand you. After some research* I’ve found that Panda Express’ Mongolian...

Chocolate Chip & Chunk Cookies

Chocolate Chip & Chunk Cookies

 Quite a while ago I posted Alton Brown’s recipe for “The Chewy” Chocolate Chip Cookie. I was very much satisfied with the recipe and it ended my quest for...

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Essential Skills: How to buy a knife

This is the first post in what I hope will become a prolific and useful set to a new series I’m calling “Essential Skills” where I’m taking everything I’ve...

Healthy Breakfast Recipe: Greek Yogurt Parfait

Healthy Breakfast Recipe: Greek Yogurt Parfait

When a recipe so perfectly parallels a season it produces an enjoyment that is beyond something simply tasting good. Take this healthy breakfast recipe for Greek Yogurt Parfaits and...