vegetables

Homemade Minestrone Soup

November 2, 2011 0 comments

I wanted to make a small batch of fresh soup yesterday so I pulled out this saved minestrone recipe and decided to give it a test. Whoa, I ended up with way more than a small batch! This minestrone soup recipe is a great one to make if you like freezing meals for later use. You’ll get at least two separate dinners out of it. I shared a large container of it with my parents, [...]

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Simple Garlic Roasted Broccoli and Carrots

August 17, 2011 2 comments

I love fresh broccoli and it’s one of the few vegetables that hubs will actually eat without any fuss. But just cooking them with salt and pepper can get a little boring after a while. So I decided to try my hand at some roasted broccoli with a handful of baby carrots thrown in. This unique recipe caught my eye because it calls for a nice variety of spices as well as grated cheese and [...]

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Homemade Salsa

August 12, 2011 0 comments

The past couple of years I have had zero luck in growing my own tomatoes. So this year, I said the heck with it. But I do miss the taste of fresh from the vine warm tomatoes. While I was grinding away on this homemade salsa I kept thinking “this isn’t gonna be the same with canned tomatoes”. But I was quite wrong. The garlic, onion and fresh cilantro give it enough of a “fresh” [...]

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Smokey Chipotle Baked Beans

August 2, 2011 2 comments

Best baked beans EVER!!! In case you can’t tell, hubs and I really liked these smokey baked beans. I was really worried that I wouldn’t like them since the recipe calls for a wee bit of beer. Being someone who hates beer, I thought these beans weren’t gonna be my cup of tea. And even though I could still smell the beer after they baked, you couldn’t taste it at all. There is just something [...]

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Homemade Baked Onion Rings

July 21, 2011 4 comments

It’s been one of those weeks this week. Yes, it’s gone by super quick but not exactly without a hitch. I’d say it all started early Tuesday morning when I was startled awake at 6am by the water authority. Monday evening the Pittsburgh area got pummeled by horrendous storms. Luckily all the bad rain missed the area where we live but parts of Pittsburgh experienced bad flooding. And apparently our local water authority lost power [...]

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Chicken and Zucchini Pasta

February 4, 2011 1 comment

The sun has finally peeked out from behind the clouds for the first time here in a long while. Thanks goodness. The gloomy days get so exhausting especially when you work from home. They drag on and seem never ending. It’s so cold outside that I just don’t want to leave the house either which makes it even worse. So I’m sitting here at my desk looking out the window and longing for spring. I [...]

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Hearty Tomato Minestrone Soup

November 4, 2010 0 comments

Yesterday I made another one pot wonder for dinner. It was cold and rainy and I couldn’t think of anything more fitting than a hot bowl of soup. This minestrone soup recipe was recently published in Rachael Ray’s magazine. It’s quick and easy to throw together and went perfectly with grilled cheese sandwiches. I loved the flavors and will add this into my regular rotation of repeat recipes. Plus I’ve got plenty of leftovers for [...]

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