February 2012
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Cinnamon Baked French Toast
I’ve seen so many baked french toast recipes that I wanted to try but they all usually require a 9x13 baking dish, which is just WAY too much food for me and Jason. But I finally came across a recipe that fit beautifully in an 8x8 baking dish, which is still too much food but it’s less than the former so hooray for me!
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Now baked french toast has the same general concept of...
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Banana Crumb Muffins with Orange Glaze and...
Before I get into these amazing banana crumb muffins, I want to take a moment to celebrate Foodie Penpals Reveal Day. I was a first-timer in this wonderful program and it was such a fun experience.
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If you’ve never heard of this program, here’s how it works:
You send a box of goodies to your matched up penpal on the 15th of the month, in which there is a $15 spending...
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Chicken Salad with Dried Cherries and Pistachios
Because I like to focus on making dinner, I usually don’t cook during lunchtime. But now I’ve found a wonderfully quick and easy lunch dish that’s super light, healthy, and filling. The only cooking part involved in this dish is the chicken breast. That’s it. Once the chicken is fully cooked and diced into bite-sized pieces, everything else is added into one bowl, and...
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Thai Chicken with Rice Noodles
I think I found my true love. Okay my second true love (first one goes to Jason). Are you ready for it? It’s rice noodles. Yes, rice noodles. They are seriously the best noodles in the world. It’s just so wonderfully slippery and thin, and it tastes so much better than regular pasta noodles like spaghetti or penne. Plus, they’re gluten-free. Well, to be honest, I don’t...
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Cranberry Pistachio White Chocolate Chip Cookies...
Jason really wanted to take me out for my birthday yesterday but he’s been really swamped at school so I told him that we could just celebrate over the weekend. But he insisted that he at least take me to lunch so he rushed on home during his lunch break and took me to this food truck that I really wanted to go to.
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It’s called The Chairman, located in San Francisco, and...
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Strawberries and Cream Birthday Pie
It’s official. I am 24 years old today, just 1 year short of being in my mid-twenties. It’s amazing how fast time has gone by. I could still remember how much of a rush I was in to turn 21 just so I can legally buy a drink instead of begging the older kids to buy the cheap Smirnoff vodka when I was back in college. But now it’s been 3 years since I’ve passed the legal...
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Chocolate Chip Almond Butter Granola Bars
When it comes to eating, my biggest weakness is snacking. I could eat a bag of pretzels or wheat thins for hours on end, and it takes much willpower to stop. But I needed a new change on my snacks so I decided to make these granola bars. They were so unbelievably easy to make and it’s so customizable! I stuck to the recipe though because I really liked what Lindsey put in these: chocolate...
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Salmon with Balsamic Glaze
As you know, Jason and I could not spend Valentine’s Day together but I had the honor of spending Valentine’s Day with my best friend from high school, Danica. Her boyfriend is also going to school up north so instead of spending Valentine’s Day alone and being bitter that our boyfriends aren’t with us, we decided to have dinner together.
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I wanted to make some...
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Udon Noodles with Peanut Sauce
Quick, weeknight meals are much needed, like this udon noodles recipe. This is by far the quickest dinner I have put together and guess what. It tastes AH-MAZING. Seriously. The udon noodles are coated in this light peanut sauce along with your serving of veggies including broccoli, spinach, and carrots. (Feel free to play around with this recipe and add other kinds of veggies to your liking,...
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General Tso's Chicken
I love making Chinese food at home. It’s so much cheaper and healthier than take-out, and sometimes, it’s even faster to make it right in your own kitchen. Now I’ve made Lighter General Tso’s Chicken before but I wanted to make a legit version this time around. This version has much more of a creamy, thick sauce, which I definitely prefer over the lightened up version. I...
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Strawberry Spinach Salad with Poppy Seed...
I’m really not the biggest fan of making salads. It can get a bit costly and time-consuming if you decide to make a fancy schmancy salad packed with all kinds of ingredients. But this particular salad is the quickest, simplest, yet tastiest salad I’ve ever had. It requires very few ingredients - spinach, strawberries, goat cheese, and pecans - and takes just minutes to whip up...
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Chocolate Buttermilk Donut Muffins with Strawberry...
When Jason came into my life 3 years ago, I finally had someone to spend Valentine’s Day with. It’s a tortuous holiday when you’re single but when you have that special someone in your life, it becomes a holiday where you have an excuse to buy each other presents and to have a night out on the town. I remember our first Valentine’s Day like it was yesterday - we made...
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Muffin Monday: Double Chocolate Muffins with...
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and what’s a better way to celebrate than with decadent chocolate muffins with a cheesecake filling oozing out of the center along with miniature chocolate chips? They are quick and simple to make, and you can dress them up with Valentine’s Day themed props like red muffin liners and toothpick hearts (I found these at my local arts and...
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Bacon Fat Chicken Alfredo
I absolutely love alfredo sauce. It’s so creamy and rich and probably quite fattening but if you make them at home, you can control the fat content a bit and use fat-free evaporated milk and/or reduced milk as well. It saves you some calories and you won’t notice a difference, especially with this recipe. It’s packed with all kinds of goodies, starting with the chicken breasts...
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Peach Champagne Cupcakes with Sweet Champagne...
These cupcakes were quite different than the usual cupcakes I make as it required a secret ingredient: egg whites. I love incorporating egg whites into any baked good because it creates such an amazing, pillow-cloud-like-fluffiness that just melts in your mouth and puts you in heaven for 2 seconds. Yeah, it’s that good. The batter also incorporates a little bit of champagne. Feel free to...
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Fried Garlic Cheddar Mashed Potato Balls
So technically, these fried garlic cheddar mashed potato balls are called “croquettes,” but in all honesty, it just doesn’t sound as good as a FRIED potato ball, right? I mean, I didn’t even know what a croquette was for the longest time. It just sounds way too sophisticated for a food item that is deep-fried and clogs your arteries, so let’s just call them for what...
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Pork Bulgogi and Kimchi Spring Rolls
For someone who loves spring rolls just as much as I do, it’s definitely not made enough in our house. I keep thinking that it’s just too much prep work but it’s actually one of the simplest dinners you could make. All that really needs to be done is to set up the ingredients as an assembly line and then assemble the spring rolls. Simple enough, right?
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Spicy Citrus Steamed Drumsticks with Cilantro...
I know I’ve been posting a lot of wings recipe but I only thought it was suitable to post another one as Superbowl Sunday is right around the corner. Now this recipe was originally a wings recipe but during my grocery run, Trader Joe’s had run out of wings (bizzare, right?), and I was in no mood to go to another grocery store so I had to settle with drumsticks. I was initially...
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Roasted Shrimp Salad
I bought the Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That cookbook several weeks ago and I absolutely love it. It’s amazing how Ina Garten takes gourmet dishes and turns them into simple, easy dishes, making life a little bit easier on those busy weeknights. This roasted shrimp salad is one of the recipes from her cookbook, and other than the peeling and deveining of the shrimp, this was an...
