March 10, 2015

Irish Soda Bread

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Irish Soda Bread

St. Patty’s Day. A day to eat corned beef and cabbage, where green, drink green beer and party like you were actually Irish! Every year for as long as I can remember, my mom made a special meal of corned beef and cabbage with boiled potatoes and rye bread every St. Patty’s Day. I love making a huge sandwich full of meat, cabbage and potatoes and eating it all together. I’m weird, but seriously, give it a try. SO good, especially if you toss some yellow mustard on it. It wasn’t until a couple years ago that my sister started making…

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March 4, 2015

{Sunday Dinner} Stuffed Shells with Homemade Sauce

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{Sunday Dinner} Stuffed Shells with Homemade Sauce

Grab your favorite bottle of wine, pour yourself a glass and let’s start cooking, pisan’s! I love me some good old fashioned Italian Sunday dinners. Lasagna, spaghetti and meatballs, some nice brasciole, maddone! I was brought up in a home with a old school first generation Italian father and an Italian New Yorker (Brooklyn) mother so I am no stranger to the Sunday dinner. Every weekend I would wake up on Sunday’s to the delicious smell of garlic and by 3 p.m. we would be sitting down for dinner. That’s how they did it growing up and by damn, that’s how…

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February 24, 2015

Roasted Sauerkraut Pork Loin

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Roasted Sauerkraut Pork Loin

I have three words for you: Easiest.Recipe.Ever. For just about $12, you can put a delicious home cooked meal on your table that will take you less than an hour. I promise I am not screwing around, this Roasted Sauerkraut Pork Loin is so easy and there will literally be no leftovers. So make 2 if you want some for the next day. My sister has been making this for years and it’s the go-to meal when we really don’t feel like cooking. Whip up some mashed potatoes (or faux mashed, if you are watching the lbs) and some red…

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February 17, 2015

{Kid Approved} Jennie-O Deli Turkey Skewers

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{Kid Approved} Jennie-O Deli Turkey Skewers

My husband got the wild idea of having a Super Bowl party…..the day before the Super Bowl. Wasn’t that sweet of him? So of course the party planning was on my shoulders while he confirmed guests. I wanted to do some bites that wouldn’t be too much effort and still be delicious. I decided to whip up some appetizers that we could just pop in our mouth while watching the game. I have always been wanting to make some kind of toothpick skewered appetizer and vowed the next time we had guests, I’d do it. I had some Jennie-O Deli Turkey…

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February 10, 2015

Breakfast for 2: Hash Brown Egg Muffins

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Breakfast for 2: Hash Brown Egg Muffins

Breakfast may be one of my favorite meals to eat. I love eggs, bacon, hash browns, fruit, waffles, pancakes – I could go on for days. Thing is, I typically do NOT like to cook it. I don’t know why, but I just don’t. So it was a bit of a shock to both my husband and I when I decided to surprised him with Hash Brown Egg Muffins the other morning. I’m pretty sure he thought he was still drunk from the night before and dreaming of this but I reassured him hell had indeed frozen over and I made a…

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February 3, 2015

Bouchon-Inspired Herb Goat Cheese Salad

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Bouchon-Inspired Herb Goat Cheese Salad

On a recent trip to Napa, after spending the morning winery hopping, we headed for a light lunch at Bouchon Bistro. This is one of Thomas Keller’s phenomenal restaurants in the Napa area (His others are Ad Hoc, The French Laundry & Bouchon Bakery) and the perfect spot to enjoy a delicious and memorable meal. We devoured some in-house made bread from the Bouchon Bakery next door and a gigantic seafood tower full of clams, oysters, shrimp, lobster & mussels. Next came out the most deliciously simple warm herb goat cheese salad I have ever had the pleasure of enjoying! The…

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January 27, 2015

The Greek Dip Recipe – Chobani #DeliciousBowl

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The Greek Dip Recipe – Chobani #DeliciousBowl

We be dippin’. Greek dippin’. Since neither of our families teams are in the Super Bowl this year, it is just another Sunday Funday for us. Of course we will still watch, we will still party, and we will still eat like champions! Although this year I am a little more excited about another bowl – the Delicious Bowl. That’s right, Chobani is having a Delicious Bowl showdown of the best, healthiest and most delicious dips their fans have to offer up for this years Super Bowl, starring Chobani as the main ingredient. Chobani wants us all to put down the phones, tablets, computers, games and…

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January 13, 2015

Homemade Spinach Mac and Cheese

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Homemade Spinach Mac and Cheese

  It is no secret that my kids are obsessed with pasta. Mac and cheese to be exact, but they do not discriminate when it comes to pasta. They will eat it anyway, shape or form. I have tried to make it a bit more nutritious like when I add cauliflower to the boxed kind but decided to push the envelope this week and try homemade spinach mac n’ cheese. Success! 1 out 2 enjoyed it thoroughly. A great way to add some iron and pump up plain mac and cheese. I will continue to try and push this on the…

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December 23, 2014

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Typically, we don’t do a ton of baking in our household. We leave that up to my mom who has it mastered down to a science. I sometimes may give off the vibe that I do not bake, but there is not one Christmas that goes by that I don’t make cookies! I recently started making Chocolate Crinkle Cookies because they were my absolute favorite cookie growing up. I used to love to help my mom bake and these were ones she would let me take the reigns on. Now that I have two daughters of my own, I like…

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December 17, 2014

Hanukkah Round Up

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Hanukkah Round Up

Hanukkah is officially here! For the next 8 days and nights, The Festival of Light is upon us. That means some great east, lots of candles, presents and of course, family! My husband is Jewish but coincidentally never really celebrated Hanukkah. After we got married, I thought we should start celebrating Hanukkah for our kids sake. So there I was, 6 months pregnant planning my very first Hanukkah dinner. I made matzoh ball soup, stuffed cabbage and latkes (aka potato pancakes). We lit the menorah, ate like champs and exchanged little presents. It was everything a non-Jewish girl thought it…

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