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When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste. ~Laiko Bahrs

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Recipe: Warm Pasta Salad with Shrimp

Great weeknight meal.  The dish would be just as good without one of the proteins.  The combination of the beans and shrimp are excellent…but over the top for those of you cost conscious consumers.  If you like, this dish is easily morphed into other flavor combinations.  I think some fresh oregano or fresh rosemary

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Pasta with Sage Brown Butter and Toasted Pumpkin Seeds

A simple dinner was the key tonight before the Oscars.  We wanted to have something healthy and quick.  Try this dish.  Just so happens to be good for you too!

Toast pumpkin seeds and remove from heat.  The seeds are toasted when they start moving around a bit on their own and a great,

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Quick Pre-Show Meal

Last night, we had tickets to see Kathy Griffin….Ms Potty-Mouth herself.  In an effort to be there on time so that we could enjoy the show without stress, I made a quick cooking dish for dinner.  This recipe comes from Cooking Light Magazine’s “The Enlightened Cook” series.  We were both quite pleased with the

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Meatless Monday – Pasta with Garbanzo Beans

I am not one to subscribe to meatless Mondays.  However, we had a meatless dish and it happened to be Monday.  Sorry if I’ve succumbed to the cliche!  This dish was a hit in our home.  It was quick, simple and really shows off the flavor of onion, garlic, tomato and cheese.  I was

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Nice finish to Thanksgiving weekend

Today marks the end of a beautiful four-day weekend.  It started out a bit rainy last Wednesday evening.  It turned out to be sunny and gorgeous.  For lunch, I pulled out some leftover rice and decided to make fried rice.  I diced carrot, celery, and onion.  In a non-stick frying pan, I heated some

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Great vegetarian pasta dish

Saturday was a long day for Dale and I.  We started by getting our yard back in order.  The lawn hadn’t been mown in over a week and the heavy rains and flooding from the past few weeks certainly wasn’t slowing down growth!

After tending to the lawn, doing some much needed weeding,

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Homemade pasta…on a weeknight?

Tonight is the first weeknight after daylight savings time began.  It was nice coming home to the sun beating into the house.  It reminded me that I don’t have to work from dusk to dawn all year long!  For dinner, I pulled out the other half of a homemade dinner I made several weeks

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