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Slow Cooker Deconstructed Lasagna

It’s funny with cooking how you can be so fastidious with some things and so lazy with others. Do you know what I’m saying? As in I will spend an hour in the kitchen on a quiche or pie, but I’ve never in my life made lasagna because it seems like too much work. But […]

Chocolate Olive Oil Cake

    I was talking to my mom the other day about how we agree that good cake needs no icing. Not that I’m one to deny myself icing, but I really love cakes that can be eaten on their own and shine on their own. I feel this way about scones, too. I rarely ever […]

Simple Saturday: Caramelized Onions

I don’t know if you are like me, but I’ve just never gotten caramelized onions right. I go in thinking that they’re going to come out sweet and completely caramel-colored (like they do on TV) and they end up just being fajita-style onions slices with a little char. I used to look at blog posts […]

Kale, Goat Cheese & Bacon Quiche

Last week, I had a work-from-home day and was blessed with a little extra time to cook my dinner. And I had a little time to watch Netflix. My mom recommended that I watch Haute Cuisine, a lovely French movie about a woman who was a private chef for the president of France for two […]

Tomato Orzo Soup

Well, I’m back on the soup train…and actually I never really got off. No matter the season or weather, you can almost bet that at least one day a week I’ll be eating a Pyrex bowl of soup on my lunch break. And if I don’t spill half of the soup on the floor and […]