Maple-Roasted Carrot Salad

Maple-Roasted Carrot Salad – Hello, favorite new salad! I love roasted vegetables and especially love roasted carrots. Roasting concentrates the flavor of vegetables and in carrots makes them even sweeter and more delicious. I’ve made

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Easy & Juicy Pork Chops

Easy & Juicy Pork Chops! The key word here is JUICY! We’ve all had them…the leathery, pan cooked or grilled chops. We start with such good intentions and then no matter what we do, how

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Hearty Sausage & Pumpkin Pasta

Happy New Year! We’re back with what might seem like an odd combination – sausage & pumpkin, but one that has quickly become one of my favorite, easy pasta sauces:  Hearty Sausage & Pumpkin Pasta.

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Happy Holidays!

  Happy Holidays! If you’re like me, and addicted to watching Bing Crosby movies every year at Christmas, you just read Happy Holidaaaaays in the song version from the movie Holiday Inn. We’ve been on

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Apple Cranberry Crisp

I’m getting in right under the Thanksgiving wire with a suggestion for those of you who don’t have the full meal already all planned out or need just one more item for your feast.  Apple

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How to Use a Potato Ricer

Just in time for Thanksgiving, I have a gadget that you need to know about… How to Use a Potato Ricer! I am something of a kitchen gadget queen, although with my limited storage, (no

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Honey Roasted Acorn Squash

Honey Roasted Acorn Squash! We have less than two weeks until Thanksgiving and something happened overnight with our weather and it’s finally fall in Florida. It always feels pretty weird to heat up the oven

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TBT – Chicken with Poblano Cream Sauce

Hi! Remember me, your long lost recipe posting friend? Sorry things have been rather light around here lately. The orchestra season started with a bang and everything seems to be happening all at once. But

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Quick Shrimp Scampi

Quick Shrimp Scampi! Definitely a Weeknight Wonder but why should Monday through Friday get all the buttery, garlic-y goodness? This is a super fast, super simple recipe – BIG flavors that you can have on

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White Port Cocktail “The Greet”

It’s cocktail time and I’ve made you something unusual and delicious… Meet “The Greet” – a White Port Cocktail! I’d never had white port before going to my friend Roz’s house for a holiday party

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Rosemary Chicken Salad

I’ll be honest here….lunch is not my favorite meal of the day. I’m often running here and there during lunch time and end up throwing some leftovers together, making a salad, or eating the oh

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Pasta with Shrimp & Fresh Tomatoes

I can’t believe I’ve never posted the recipe for Pasta with Shrimp & Fresh Tomatoes! This has long been one of my favorite dishes to make but I often fiddle around with the recipe adding

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Asian Noodle Salad with Shrimp

Asian Noodle Salad with Shrimp – Perfect for hot summer weather! This is an incredibly versatile salad. It can be made ahead and refrigerated or made when you’re ready to eat and served at room

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How To Raise Butterflies

We’re taking a little break from recipes so I can share my latest obsession with you… Today we’re talking about How To Raise Butterflies! This summer when I was in Minneapolis for the opera, my

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