Grow This: The Survivors (AKA I kinda Killed My Plants)

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Say heyyyyyy!!  Lots of people have been wondering how our little garden project was going.  So here’s the thing: it was going pretty good.  But then I kinda got a little water happy.  Eeek!  Now before you feel bad, there are a few survivors.  Ha ha!  But I did end up doing some work on [...]

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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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Cooking For Two – Contest!

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Ok, so I’m not sure how to say this: but I can’t taste food right now. Seriously, this is SO SAD. What the heck?! you might be thinking? Yeah me too. Well it all started last Monday (yes, it’s been a week now) and I was happily munching on some cheesy poofs. Suddenly this metallic, [...]

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