Candied Bacon

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Candied bacon?  Candied what?? Oh, yes you did say bacon. That was my first thought when a guy passing out trays with tidbits of bacon, crystallized with brown sugar, stopped and offered the tray to me.  We were at an event at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth.  It’s something on their menu for [...]

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Get Your Pretty Aprons Ready… Cooking Club!

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so.  super. excited.  !!!!! Well everyone, we are moving to Fort Worth this week!!  And yes, I’m finally going to have my own kitchen again after 4 years (wow!)  Of course this means lots more cooking, pictures of food and cooking posts… aka Bella Pop Kitchen.  I’m soooooo excited to be closer to my BFFs [...]

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Chicken with Herbed Goat Cheese

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For Valentine’s Day I cooked a new meal for the family.. and it was delicious.  And yeah, I pulled most of these recipes from my favorite Barefoot Contessa cookbooks (I promise, I really do have a slew of other cookbooks and I’ll cook from one of those soon!! LOL)  Anyway, here was the lineup for [...]

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Great Grandma’s Sugar Cookies

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She would dip the cookies and I would do the sprinkles.  Frosting.  Sprinkles.  Frosting.  Sprinkles.  Sprinkles everywhere.  Because I was a little kid the bottle was kinda big.  There would be sprinkles all over the kitchen.  Sprinkles would be all over the floor, rolling under the fridge, hiding in drawers.  And I was having the [...]

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Perfect Roast Chicken

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Happy Monday!  Ok, is this weather amazing or what?  Ah, I soooooooo did a happy dance when I did the “crack open the door stick your arm out the window what will I wear weather check” procedure yesterday.  Yes, I could just look at the weather on my phone but it’s more fun that way! [...]

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