A friend of mine once told me that I made the best pancakes. I thought Rachel was just being nice because I made her breakfast.Today, I realized that she just might have been on to something.After making red velvet pancakes, I had some buttermilk that needed to be used. I had made buttermilk biscuits once, in
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When I first moved into my apartment, two years ago, I had very few kitchen utensils. Having lived in the dorms the year before, where the only way to cook anything was via microwaves that looked like they could double as fallout shelters, all three pieces of cookware I had was microwave safe. I had
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For Valentine’s Day, I decided to make the boyfriend a special breakfast of red velvet pancakes with a cream cheese drizzle. To set the mood, I put on some Blues Traveler, made us some tea to warm up (because, as you may or may not know, we live on Hoth), and got to cooking. The
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With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, stores are packed with different varieties of sugary treats. Among them, the classic, timeless Conversation Hearts. Personally, I prefer Necco over Brach’s, when it comes to brand. Necco’s hearts are crunchier and have more traditional flavors. Frankly, I think Brach’s goes overboard with their sweet, soft hearts. Brand
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It was an adventure destined for greatness. My culinary quest of the evening was to create a plate of delicious nachos. Considering my only previous experience with this mysterious dish was the passable example set by the local hipster dive, Lovin’ Cup (whose sandwiches, unlike their nachos, are exceptional), I was feeling a little unsure
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From artery-clogging nachos to heart-stopping dips, this Sunday night football brings together football fans around the country to cheer, eat, and drink beer (or soda if you’re under 21 and a good, law-abiding citizen). This year, for the first time in forever, I got invited to a Superbowl party at one of my friends’ houses.
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The other day, the boyfriend and I were talking about food and we got on the subject of nachos. He told me that, before tortilla chips became a popularly packaged snack, Mexican restaurants would take scraps of tortilla dough and cook it into chips. They set bowls of these chips out for restaurant patrons to
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So, for my first meal, I decided I would make tacos.It was either going to be tacos or nachos, but seeing as the boyfriend and I have repeatedly forgotten to buy tortilla chips, we settled for tacos and resigned to buying tortilla chips another day (…probably).I had seen my mom make tacos from a kit
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