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Showing 26 results for the author: Katie.
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The other night I felt like grazing...no heavy meal needed. We had gone out to lunch, so I wanted something light and easy for dinner. I made shrimp scampi for my some, a variety plate for my daughter with all her favorites, and crostini and a ratatouille-type dish for my husband and myself. It was different and fun. Everyone was happy and it wasn't much work. ...
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My pictures don't do this pizza justice. I love polenta, but topping it and baking it make it even better!! We liked the idea so much that we have made three or four versions of this pizza. The original was our favorite but the others were very tasty. I think I would like almost anything on this polenta! ...
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Gabe had been talking about his birthday party 6 months ahead of time. He knew he wanted all of his friends to come over. He knew he wanted it to be at our house. He knew he wanted to have "lots of things to eat" and he knew exactly what he wanted his cake to look like.Somehow he came up ...
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My oldest turned four last weekend. How time flies! He was sure he wanted a big birthday bash with all of his friends and lots of cake and decorations...so I set to work! I had an easy time deciding on decorations and entertainment, it was the food that I spent the most time worrying about. I wanted something pleasing to the kids as well as the adults, but nothing too simple or boring. After a few trial runs and much ...
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These make a great appetizer...or light entree. I made these along with another appetizer for the four of us and it was a perfect dinner with enough leftover for lunch the following day. Again the recipe is just a guide...I did it by feel...don't be afraid to try a bit of this or a bit of that.Asian Chicken Wraps2 Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts, cubed1 small onion, halved and sliced thinly1 large carrot, julienned1/2 ...
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I must confess that I'm really skeptical when I try new chocolate chip cookie recipes. They all claim to be the best and often they are not. They don't live up to expectations...so we were thrilled when we took our first bites of these tasty cookies. They were big and beautiful. They looked like bakery cookies. They tasted better than bakery cookies. Between bites I heard "Best cookies ever." You should ...
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The three little raspberry "roots" that we planted two years ago exploded this summer. Now we have a deck surrounded by brambles...but we love it. We don't love the amount of bees that like to hang around the deck now, but I guess we'll deal with them if it means we get raspberries like this. It has been wonderful this year. The kids love, I mean love, to pick the berries. It is hard to save any to cook with ...
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These chicken gyros really hit the spot the other night. They were full of flavor and all the components work together really well. Warm, cool, soft, crisp. Yum! We liked them so much that I actually served them for a get together I hosted this week. This recipe has a few steps, but everything can be done ahead and assembled just before serving. I actually had everything on platters and everyone just helped themselves which ...
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Tonight we tried out a couple of new recipes and both were big successes. The main course tonight was this layered black bean pie. It is pretty rare for us to have a vegetarian entree for dinner, but to tell the truth I didn't even miss the meat in this tasty pie. Everyone really seemed to enjoy it and I liked the quick and easy prep. I assembled this a few hours before dinner and then baked it at the ...
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This is another recipe adapted from Ina Garten. I love her style, her recipes, and cookbooks. They all have such honest, good food. The only thing is that some of her recipes call for much more fat (butter, usually) than I want to use. So, I normally cut it by quite a bit, and amazingly, the recipes still work and the food is still great. This chowder was the best, it beat all the chowder that we ate in Key ...
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We had a wonderful Valentine's Dinner tonight. I ended up making this tasty grilled vegetable "sandwich" for our appetizer and then we had a wonderful Sea Bass for our main course. Tonight I wanted to tell you about this appetizer and I'll post the Sea Bass recipe another time. The "sandwich" was scrumptious...it took a few steps, but it was worth it. The grilled bread was so crunchy and delicious and a great backdrop for the tender, slightly sweet, ...
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The other night Joseph and I headed out for our own little date night. We made it to a little theater production put on by our local college and then we went to a wonderful Italian place for a drink and some pasta. We had a terrific mushroom linguini with a light veal sauce. It was very tasty. Memorable enough that I was already trying to recreate it this week. I ...
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The other night I made this chicken with smoky paprika and it was delicious. It was a little bit smoky and a little bit spicy from the paprika. It was also very tender and juicy since it all cooks evenly throughout. It was also pretty easy to prepare once you have the chicken processed. Taking the backbone out can be tricky unless you have a good knife or kitchen shears. Once you do have the bone out and ...
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It's that time of year...the time when I search for the best sugar cookie recipe I can find. This year I found a keeper. I really love this recipe because you don't have to wait for the butter to come to room temperature. That is key because I never plan ahead enough for that to happen. I always work on the fly...if the kids are happy and my hands are free then I bake. Today my hands were free ...
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It's been a busy time around our house lately. We've still been cooking up a storm, but we've gone back to home-style classics that are easy to prepare, yet still super tasty. We've made these chicken fingers twice in the past few weeks and they turned out terrific each time. The first time I made them with chicken thighs and last night I made them with breast meat. I have to say that I preferred the tender juicy ...
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Pumpkin carving means pumpkin seeds available for roasting. We carved our pumpkins last night and we roasted our seeds to ways. We did a simple salt version and then we did a sweet sugar, pumpkin pie spice, and extra cinnamon version. My husband loved the salted ones and my son and I really got into the sweet version. Try some, they're addictive....
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A few weeks ago I received a package in the mail containing a sample of a local companies' all purpose sauce to try in my own home. I gave it a whirl in some sloppy joes I made and liked it, but I didn't think that I could review it very accurately because the sauce was intermingled with too many other flavors. So, I decided to try using the sauce as the main flavor agent. Last night ...
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This is a terrific and easy recipe for soft pretzels. Gabe and I made them twice in the past two weeks. We doubled the recipe the second time and we cut them like bagels to make pretzel bread sandwiches, yummy!! They even stayed fresh and moist the second day so we ate them with a cup of soup.Perfect Soft Pretzelsdough:1 tsp active dry yeastpinch of sugar1/3 cup warm water1 1/4 cups flour...
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These Asian inspired short ribs were so flavorful and tender we were wishing we had bought more than a pound and a half to split for dinner. We will definitely be having these again and again, I may even switch to doing my pot roast with these Asian flavors as well. The ginger, soy sauce, and orange juice actually mellowed and melded together during the long cooking process to create a super flavorful sauce to use for the meat, starch, and vegetable ...
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These petite baked eggs are so simple and easy you'll be kicking yourself for not discovering them sooner. They are so impressive for the amount of effort required that you'll want to have a brunch party just to serve them to guests. Try them, you'll be glad you did.Baked Egg Cups Make as few or many as you like. This morning ...
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I have an urge to grow things. I think it stemmed from growing up on a farm and watching my own parents grow and create things where nothing stood before. I have good (hmm, and some bad, come to think of it!) memories of helping out around the farm. Picking berries and eating cucumbers straight off the vine are a couple of my fondest. So it only seems natural to grow things around my house, wherever I can find a plot of ...
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This fresh corn soup is a great way to make use of all that sweet corn on the cob from the farmers' market or roadside stand. I came home with a dozen beauties the other day and needed to use them up in two days' time. Last night we had half for dinner and the rest were shucked for this tasty soup. We made it into a meal by topping it with a few shrimp and a little extra corn ...
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Neither Joseph nor I normally choose to eat burgers consisting of anything but beef, however, we're both feeling a little too "bulky" right now. I have a good excuse...I still haven't gone for my six week check up since having Grace (it's tomorrow!) so I haven't been given the green light to exercise. (After tomorrow I don't know what excuse I'll use.) As for Joseph, well, he just eats too much and eats out too often at work. So, we're trying to find some ...
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We didn't have any big plans for our Fourth of July this year but I still wanted our day to feel festive so I put together a little barbecue for my husband and son. With barely more than an hour to get things ready I quickly threw some boneless skinless chicken thighs in a lemony marinade. As that worked I got a little corn on the cob, watermelon, and lemonade ready for the table. At the last minute I threaded the ...
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I picked up Donna Hay's Off the Shelf cookbook a few months ago and I haven't had much of a chance to explore it. I've been up to my neck in baby...which has been absolutely wonderful. We've been busy enjoying Grace and all of her firsts...first trip to the grocery store, first bath, first outing to church, first time to get pooped on - you know all the wonderful things that we've been waiting for since last August.So, with company gone and the ...
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Nothing could be easier than making sandwiches. We have our fair share of sandwiches around here, but I love to dress up our plain ham and cheese and make it something special. Sometimes we grill them, add special sauces, or extra veggies. Today, however, I went to the grocery store and picked up a loaf of foccacia bread to go with our sandwich fixings. I didn't think much of it, I just figured it would make our dinner a little more ...
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