Pasta with Buttered Sour Cream and Bacon

December 10, 2013 by 4 Comments

Sometimes when you are contemplating the inside of your refrigerator wondering what to make for supper, wonderful things can happen.  This was the case when I was contemplating the inside of my own fridge, gazing at the remains of a container of sour cream, the last couple of scallions in the bunch, a stick of butter and of course, the package of bacon that is always in there.  What happened next was pasta with a buttered sour cream and bacon sauce that is going into permanent rotation in our house!
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Slow Cooker Chicken Barley Soup

December 8, 2013 by 4 Comments

This super-duper-easy recipe brings together a few of my favorite things, namely tender chicken, sweet veggies, good-for-you barley…and my beloved slow cooker.  It’s one of those recipes that is so ridiculously easy that it feels like magic when you toss everything in and it comes out of the slow cooker as a wonderful concoction of warm and wonderful soup.  It’s the perfect thing for chilly, busy winter days.
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Chai Spice Cookies

December 5, 2013 by 4 Comments

We are swinging right into the heart of Christmas cookie season, and one of the many many varieties that will be filling up the cookie jar in our house will be these sweet and spicy chai spice cookies.  Just like chai tea, when you take that first bite it will taste just like a wonderful, familiar sugar cookie.  But a few seconds later, you will get a teeny pop of heat – those are the mixture of spices that mixed together make up chai.  And if you think chai tea is delicious, wait until you taste it in a cookie!
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Rosemary Roasted Cauliflower

December 3, 2013 by 6 Comments

I am having a serious, serious love affair with cauliflower lately.  Up until now, my affection has expressed itself in soup form, from cauliflower blue cheese soup to cauliflower soup with lobster dumplings…it makes my heart go pitter-pat.  But lately I’ve been realizing that simply roasting it with some aromatic fresh rosemary and a few onions is just as marvelous, and is going to make whatever that night’s entree is taste even better just by association with the wonder that is cauliflower. 
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Shrimp Scampi Ravioli

December 1, 2013 by 8 Comments

I am usually helpless in the face of shrimp scampi on a restaurant menu.  Tender shrimp, spicy garlic, sparkling lemon, all whisked together with a lovely amount of melted butter – what’s not to love?  And usually shrimp scampi comes served with a mound of pasta…which got me to thinking.  What if I made shrimp scampi at home, but what if I made it not with linguine or angel hair or spaghetti.  What if I served it with…ravioli???  What if.  What if.
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Thanksgiving Casserole!

November 28, 2013 by 3 Comments

Right about now you are probably smack in the middle of a Thanksgiving whirlwind, or you know somebody who is.  The turkey is thawing or brining, the pumpkin pies are baking, you are searching for that cornbread stuffing you know you have somewhere, and you’re sending someone to the store to pick up the marshmallows you forgot to get for the top of the sweet potato casserole.
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