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Baked Mac & Cheese with a Crunchy Sourdough Topping is the ultimate comfort food when you need a hug. Creamy, rich and scrumptious, each bite is a little bit of heaven. Okay, I’ll confess right now. Even though this baked mac and cheese recipe is from scratch, it’s made with Velveeta cheese. Shoot me now! But, here’s the thing and a…
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Sweetheart Strawberry Crostini is very easy to make. But, you do have to have a few special ingredients on hand. For example, Mascarpone cheese. You really need to use Mascarpone cheese! Why not substitute cream cheese? While almost the same consistency as cream cheese, Mascarpone is more delicate in flavor. To me, it tastes like a thicker version of English Devon…
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Fresh string beans seasoned with bacon and garlic – can you think of a better way to eat your veggies? I can’t. The secret is to not overcook the string beans. If you cross over into that zone, the twilight zone of overcooked string beans, then you’ll have cooked-to-death green beans, which is a whole different recipe! I can’t tell…
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650+ Kitchen Essentials – really? You read that right, but it does seem a bit excessive, doesn’t it? I’ve created a list of kitchen essentials that covers just about every tool, gadget, utensil, and piece of equipment one could ever need! Guess what? You can get it for FREE! Sign-up below and it will arrive in your email today –…
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What are the 5 time-tested things I wish I’d done from the beginning on my blog? Hindsight is often a dangerous game, but it can provide you with much-needed perspective. We can’t change the past, so focusing and dwelling on the road not taken can lead to a paralysis of a sort. Instead of moving forward, we end up playing the…
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Heart pounding, I stared at the email in disbelief. A fire alert from our local power company stared back at me. Is this real? It can’t be real. Can it? A few minutes earlier our house landline rang. Charlie, in our living room, picked up the phone and a few seconds later hung up. “Who was on the phone?” I…
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