For Valentine’s Day, I was going to make a post about diabetic-friendly brownies, but the first batch tasted like crap, so I decided to take a bit more time to perfect the recipe (or at least make them taste less like sweetened dirt and more like actual chocolate baked goods). Fortunately for everyone involved, these
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There’s nothing quite like coming home to the smell of a dinner that’s made itself while you were at work. It’s even better when you end up with a ton of leftovers (or enough to invite a friend over for dinner)! While the prep is admittedly a little more difficult when you’ve got one hand
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It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and a lot of you are probably wondering why I’ve decided to make a post about ham and potatoes instead of turkey and stuffing, like pretty much every other blogger on the planet. Honestly, I don’t have a good answer for that, but I do have a kind of funny,
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This is a dinner I tried out while I was cooking for just myself, so if you’re making the recipe for more than one person, multiply the recipe accordingly. For the nutrition facts, the meat used was 8 oz of salmon, which contributed 288 Calories, for those who are counting and wish to substitute a
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This is another recipe we found in Nana’s stash of recipe cards. According to Poppa, it came from his sister, Dorothy, who used to make it for him all the time and later passed the recipe on to Nana. I added a couple of spices to it to make the dough a little more interesting,
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Today’s post is a guest post, brought to you by Shell Harris, of Smoothie Web! — There is nothing basic about this smoothie, with its added superfoods and creamy, delicious texture. It’s so easy to make, you can whip up this smoothie for breakfast or even a quick snack. The cinnamon and banana add a
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As someone who grew up in an Italian household eating copious amounts of pasta and baking cookies every other day of the week, I never really had much of an interest in dieting. I was vegetarian for a while, but I was also an extremely competitive and active runner at the time, and I couldn’t
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I’ve been doing a lot of baking lately. As danger goes, baking is a pretty safe hobby — unless we’re talking about your waistline. In an effort to not gain a million pounds in a couple of months, I’ve started taking steps toward making healthier baked goods (sometimes; nothing can curb my cupcake experimentation, though…).
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I don’t often make posts that are single-serving dishes, but today, I ended up cooking for myself and, well, here we are! Usually, when it’s just me, I make soup or a sandwich (or a bag of popcorn) and call it dinner. Other times, I go shopping in my mom’s freezer and head home with some extra
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These cookies were actually a failed experiment. I meant to make cutout-style cookies, but when I rolled out this dough, it all stuck to my counter top. They boyfriend, however, urged that I not throw out the recipe because the resulting round cookies were still really good. I wasn’t too happy about it, since the
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