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Prosciutto Arugula Pizza
Thanks for the Top 9 on my Tuna Salad Melt everyone! So glad everyone enjoyed it 🙂 Guess where I am going this week? Chicago! Any of you foodies from Chicago and know good places to eat? 😉 Patrick’s sister, Kari, is graduating from Northwestern (yea Big Ten!). Their whole family is bunch of smartiepants’. <–totally not a word She is graduating as an electrical engineer, smart girlie! Congrats to you Kari, we are all so proud of you 🙂 From what Patrick has said, she has all sorts of things planned for us so that will be good. I always love checking out cities I am not familiar with.…
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Tomato & Mozzarella Bites
Well hello everyone! How are you doing today on this Thursday morning? It has been a weeee bit chilly this week. Yesterday morning we had a high of about 5ºF. Just a tad chilly. I am ready for snow! I am getting frustrated with this no snow thing. I love to snowboard and this no snow thing is REALLY cramping my style. Grrrrrr! Every year my parents throw a party of some sort. Ever since I can remember my family has been putting on parties with TONS of people. When we lived in Kansas City, their Christmas parties were epic. When I say epic…I mean, 100+ people fitting into a…
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Caprese Wraps
Whenever things are rough in my life I really try and focus on the good. That is all you can do right? If all you do is focus on the negative (which I am guilty of sometimes, I’ll admit) you will end up feeling hopeless and completely powerless to do anything to make the negative go away. So that is what I have been trying to do for the past few days, focus on the POSITIVE! I have a fantastic boyfriend (score) I have a family who loves me <3 I have a the cutest darn bunny who has the best personality (come on, how cute is he?) I have…
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Peach and Feta Chicken Pizza
Hello my foodie friends! How are you this Thursday morning? I am certainly doing better than I was yesterday. I dropped my car off at a shop to get repaired after my accident that I had this week. What a bummer! I am glad that my car will be getting fixed though. I pretty much love my car (2008 Ford Escape XLT V6, vroom vroom!) so having it get fixed is going to be the highlight of my week next week. It is always so hard to not have a car you know? I am lucky that I have an extra car that I can drive around. I had a…
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Dinner with Mom & Dad
Sheesh what a week this has been already! Busy busy! I woke up this morning to the pitter patter of rain on my windows and I just did NOT want to get out of bed. It has been a stressful week at work which made we want to stay in bed even more, haha. One of my co-workers retired last week and that has made for some additional work on my plate. I am hoping that things will even out in the coming months, but for now it does not seem to be slowing down. This past weekend I spent some time with my parents and of course you know…
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Success! Homemade Ravioli
Yes! I did it! I finally made the leap and made my very own homemade pasta! I have always heard how people say that pasta made from scratch is so much better than store bought. However, I was never brave enough or frankly had enough time to make homemade pasta. Well, this weekend while I was sick and curled up in my blanket reading my book (Blood Men), that I actually finished this weekend – it is amazing how much reading you can get done if you sit still for a while, I decided that I was going to attack my fear and just do it…MAKE THE PASTA! Pasta is…
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Broccoli Pasta
I have been in the mood for pasta lately. Do you ever get in moods like that? Sometimes I go through these phases where all I want is pasta. Honestly, there are SO many different meals you can make with pasta! It is so versatile! You can make it vegetarian or with meat, cold or hot, and there are so many different varieties! So, this dish below was just a dish that I came up with from the ingredients I have in my refrigerator. It was simple and easy and always the best part, pretty healthy as well! Ingredients for Broccoli Pasta: Angel Hair pasta 1 Broccoli head 1 Zucchini…
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Summer Bread
Ingredients for Bread: Loaf of Italian bread (can be a day old) 3-4 tomatoes 1 green bell pepper fresh mozzarella 6-7 basil leaves 2-3 cloves garlic Olive oil (2 tablespoons or so) Preheat oven to 350 ° Now that summer is coming to a close this is what I am going to miss from the summer the most. My garden….there is absolutely nothing better to me that fresh produce from your garden. Everything tastes better, it even feels better making it when it comes from your own garden/home. This bread is something that I really enjoy and I make often during the summer because it is so tasty and just…
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One of my favorites!
This is one of my most favorite recipes and it is quick, easy, and healthy! Roasted Tomatoes with Mozzarella! YUM! I went on a strange kick back when I was in college to go on a diet. I do believe my grandparents were having their 50th wedding anniversary in Florida…soooo, my mom and I decided that we needed to lose a couple of pounds each so that we looked our best. Well, we decided that the South Beach Diet was the way to go…. It definitely was NOT the way to go…at least not for me. I was so miserable on that diet…and I mean, m i s e r…