Happy one month to the blog! If you haven’t been here since the beginning, go and check out my first recipe for Old Fashioned Chocolate Chip Cookies and stay tuned because February is looking like a sweet month! Now for one of my favorite anniversaries. Five years ago today, I was talking to my boyfriend as I drove home from work on a Friday night. When I opened the door to my apartment, there he was! He’d flown from Pennsylvania to South Carolina to surprise me and was all dressed up and standing in the middle of my living room. He asked me to marry him…and I said yes! The last five years have been…
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Pepperoni Pizza Muffins
One of the things I learned when I married my husband was that pizza is considered a food group all it’s own and can be eaten multiple times in a week or even in the same day! While we love traditional pizza around here, sometimes it’s nice to change it up a little. Today I have another great recipe for your Super Bowl party. These Pepperoni Pizza Muffins are pretty much perfect, no fussy ingredients needed and they can be made ahead of time and frozen until party time. Here’s to not being stuck in the kitchen doing last minute prep while the party is going on! I found this diced pepperoni at the…
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Loaded Baked Potato Dip
It’s no secret around our house that my favorite part of the Super Bowl is the food! I must say though that since being married to my sports loving husband, I’ve come to enjoy more of the game too. To help you get ready for game day, I’m going to share some yummy options that are perfect for game day or any party. First up is Loaded Baked Potato Dip. This is a recipe that is often requested by my husband and while being incredibly simple always gets compliments when I take it to a party. This recipe has 3 simple ingredients. Yep, you read that right, only 3 ingredients. You’re…
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Hot Chocolate for One
When it’s cold outside what’s better than snuggling up under a blanket with a large steaming mug of hot chocolate! Thanks to winter storm Jonas I was snowed in this weekend and had plenty of time to enjoy hot chocolate and work on new recipes for the blog. I love chocolate. I love chocolate candy, cookies, brownies, cake, mochas…I think you get the picture here. When it’s snowing or any cold winter night, I love a nice mug of hot chocolate! I’m always on the lookout for a great recipe that I can whip up in a couple minutes when the craving strikes. This recipe is just what I was looking for, it has 3 main ingredients…
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Chicken Pot Pie with Cheddar Biscuit Topping
While I would love to eat sweets all day long, sometimes you need vegetables and today’s recipe is filled with them! These cold winter days put me in the mood for comfort food and this recipe definitely fits the bill. Chicken and vegetables in a flavorful broth and covered in cheddar biscuits. Yum! One of the things I love about this recipe is you can get a head start on the dinner clean up while it is baking . This recipe fills a 9×9 inch pan, like completely full and almost overflowing. To catch any stray drips, I usually put a rimmed baking sheet on the rack below. Also, this recipe has a very high…
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Baked Oatmeal
Winter has arrived and it’s cold out there! There’s nothing fun about eating a bowl of cold cereal before walking outside in the below freezing temps to your frozen car. Since I can’t do anything about the temperature outside, I’m going to stick with breakfast. This oatmeal is delicious any day, but there is something very comforting about hot oatmeal on a cold morning. This makes this recipe perfect for the mornings we’ve had this week with temperatures in the teens. Brr! Even if I get up early enough to make a big breakfast before work, I never plan time to clean it up. Let’s be honest here, I rarely get up early…
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Old Fashioned Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
If there is one cookie I associate with my childhood, it’s this one. Every time we wanted to bake cookies my mom would pull out her stained recipe card for Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chip Cookies. While the original is still classically delicious, over the years I’ve made a couple of updates. One of the most noticeable updates was to cut the recipe in half. My favorite part of these chocolate chip cookies is definitely the cinnamon. Cinnamon is one of those spices that I buy in bulk. I also like to mix it up and add multiple types of chocolate chips. I always use semi-sweet and dark, but for the third kind I use…
