Sometimes the best Christmas presents are the ones we give ourselves. So this year I bought myself a new cookbook. I nearly swooned over the promise of full page, full color photographs of every recipe, …
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Mushroom Bourguignon–don’t have to pronounce it, just eat it
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Pancakes for one, please!
In the house I grew up in, making pancakes for 1 person was unfathomable. With up to 9 people bustling about on a typical Saturday morning, mom was making triple and occasionally quadruple batches of …
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I wouldn’t call it procrastination
I wouldn’t call it procrastination because I’m in denial about it. I mean really, what else should you do 3 1/2 days before you are moving across 3 states? You should make pumpkin chocolate chip …
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Hot, Cold, or in the Fridge 3 Days Old?
I think I remember my mom cooking split pea soup sometimes. I remember spinning past the split peas and lentils in the lazy susan cupboard on my way to the chocolate chips. So if we …
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Stuffed and Roasted Acorn Squash
Necessity is the mother of all invention. And this week, our necessity is clearing out all the food from our apartment. As mentioned previously in this blog, my husband and I are doing a pantry …
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A Tale of Three Cookies
It’s unfortunate that I started the pantry challenge with nearly two full boxes of butter. A shame, really. If you’ve been following the challenge, you know that two sticks of butter were already sacrificed to …
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How to make seitan from skeletons
We all have skeletons in our closets. And by closets I mean pantries. And by skeletons I mean forgotten, weird ingredients we bought for one recipe and then shoved out of sight. One of my …
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These aren’t mom’s pancakes
Weekend mornings are made for pancakes! Growing up, Saturday mornings were the one day of the week that we might have pancakes or cream dried beef on toast. These were special breakfasts that took longer than …
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Double Chocolate Mackinac Island Fudge Cookies
Husband leaves for business trip–I make cookies! That seems fair. Part of the deal in cleaning out the pantry is that the chocolate chips, butter, and sugar have to go, too. Aw, shucks. There was …
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A Roasted Veggie Salad out of the Pantry
It makes my vegetarian heart happy to start a pantry eating challenge with a fridge full of fresh veggies. And it makes me worry about 2 weeks from now when there will not be so …
For the Love 