Recipes
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Spaghetti Western Steak Rub
It’s food swap time again, which means time to get creative with my swapping stuff. As I was perusing Pinterest, I came across a couple of different steak rub recipes that – things being what they are – I didn’t have all the ingredients for. No worries, I took the basic idea and came up with my own. I call it a Spaghetti Western Steak Rub because I added fennel, which wasn’t an ingredient in any, but a substitution for a substitution of (did that make sense? X can be a substitute for Y. Y is a substitute for Z, therefore, X is a substitute for Z… or vice versa).…
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Crème fraîche and Pork Al Latte Review
YouTube – I could get lost for hours in the food videos there. And, actually, I have. It started innocently enough – a video for homemade crème fraîche. Which, by the way, is super easy and tastes way better than sour cream. And by super easy, I mean this: I didn’t stop at the crème fraîche, though. I kept watching videos. Eventually I came across this one: Chef John is amazingly funny. I know because I’ve watched about a zillion of his videos. This one uses crème fraîche – which is amazing since I have a jar in my fridge. I made this for dinner last night and it is AMAZING.…
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Cake in a Mug
I generally don’t keep ready-made sweets in the house because when I do, they just get eaten and I no longer have ready-made sweets in the house. It’s a vicious cycle. However, I do get cravings, as does the man-child, and I need a quick fix for that. We’ve played around off and on with the brownie in a mug cakes. I recently purchased a product called “Mugging” at the grocery store – which works, but is a bit high for my budget. Duncan Hines to the rescue! This is super, super easy, people. Just mix together a box of cake mix of your choice (I currently have yellow and…
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Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Super quick, super easy, and super sweet. That’s what these strawberries amount to. Chocolate covered strawberries are probably my most favorite dessert. There’s something just so… decadent about them. Seriously, though, they are soooo easy to make! Really! Make a bunch for the sweet people in you’re life. They’ll know how much you really love them. 🙂
