May 2012
23 posts
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Teriyaki Salmon with Sriracha Cream Sauce
Ever since I started food blogging 13 months ago, I’ve rarely repeated any recipes. I definitely have some favorites that I’d like to try again here and there but I love trying new things, and I like to use the opportunity to post something new for the blog.
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Baked Brown Sugar Chicken Wings with Roasted Red...
Having a day off of a 5-day workweek sounds like a mini-vacation but I actually spent the entire day cooking and doing some major cleaning around the house. Ever since I started working, there is just no time to clean! But seeing that I had some down time, I busted out the vacuum, the swifter, and the 409. It’s seriously baffling as to how dust accumulates so quickly! No matter how often I...
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Muffin Monday: Coffee Hazelnut Muffins with...
I hope everyone is having a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. I cannot even begin to tell you how happy I am that I don’t have to work today. I don’t need to wake up at 4:45 AM and then sit in traffic for an hour going to and from work. Instead, I will be spending the day with Jason, cooking throughout the day, possibly going to Ikea, and watching the Eastern conference finals game 1...
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Green Chili Bacon Cheeseburger Sliders...
I’m happy to say that I’ve joined my fellow bloggers in #SundaySupper. I’ve seen this hash tag for quite some time now and I’ve always wondered what this all was. When I found out that it was a group of food bloggers coming together to “break bread” on Sundays, preparing a special menu around the family table for Sunday supper, I couldn’t wait to join,...
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Jalapeño Popper Pizza
I have a confession to make. I bought this awesome pizza pan at Williams & Sonoma with the giftcard that I won from the wonderful Amy over at Fearless Homemaker back in December, and I just used it for the first time last week. I’m really not sure how we got from December to May, almost June actually. All I know is that I finally inaugurated Mr. Pizza Stone with this fantastic jalapeño...
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Buffalo Ranch Fries
Jason’s aunt used to own one of the Charley’s Grilled Subs franchises so he spent many of his summers working there to make some extra cash. During his time there he managed to try almost every single menu item, and what he liked most was the buffalo ranch fries. I’ve actually tried them myself and they’re pretty darn good.
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So when Jason moved back home about 3...
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Brown Butter White Chocolate Rice Krispie Treats
This brown butter rice krispie treats recipe has been my go-to recipe for quite awhile now but this time, I thought I’d change it up and add some white chocolate chips. I was definitely a bit concerned as to how these white chocolate chips would turn out since this is a no-bake recipe but amazingly enough, they all melted from the residual heat, which in turn created such an amazing...
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Muffin Monday: Blueberry Orange Oatmeal Muffins
Okay guys. I have some major news. No, I’m not pregnant but I do have a new baby to welcome to the blog. His name is Mr. Reginald, but you can call him Reggie for short. We’re all friends here, right?
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So if you’ve been following me on Instagram and/or Twitter, then you’ve probably seen me talk about my new baby. I’ve been wanting to upgrade to a dslr for...
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Bolognese Sauce with Cloves and Cinnamon
Did you guys catch the season finale of Grey’s Anatomy last night? 17 minutes into the finale, I was seriously bawling my eyes out. That was quickly followed by anger, annoyance, and frustration. I won’t really get into the details of it since I know there are some people who haven’t watched it yet but let’s just say that this episode was quite a shocker. It wasn’t...
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Chocolate Brownie Cookies with White Chocolate...
This week has been absolute hell. Work is exhausting, people are crazy, the traffic has taken a toll for the worst, and the week is going by extremely slowly. I just can’t believe it’s only Thursday. I actually thought last night was Thursday and I had my tv all set to go for the season finale of Grey’s Anatomy and then when Modern Family came on, I finally came to the...
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Slow Cooker Honey Sesame Chicken
Guys, I have a huge confession to make. Here goes. I have fallen in love with my slow-cooker. I just can’t hide my love for it anymore. I love it so much that I’ve even named him Bert. Bert has become so important in my cooking life, especially since I just started a full-time job.
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Throughout the week, I’m usually up by 4:45 AM and I don’t come home until 7 PM....
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Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies
Jason has been home for less than a week and I’m already eating a tamale pie filled with three different kinds of pork - chorizo, bacon, and ground pork, topped with lots and lots of ooey gooey cheddar cheese. This was all eaten at 9:30PM, and I usually don’t eat after 6PM.
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I seriously don’t know what it is - I just can’t stop eating when I’m around...
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Mother's Day Chocolate Cupcakes with Fresh...
I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend. Jason and I have been so crazed and we completely forgot to buy his mom a gift so we decided to treat her out to one of her favorite lunch places. I was thinking about baking a bundt cake to bring along with me but knowing that we were providing lunch, I decided to take the day off on Saturday night.
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But then on Sunday...
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Baked Oatmeal with Blueberries
I was never an oatmeal person growing up. Breakfast for me usually involved cereal or buttered toast or even a bagel on my lucky days, but never any oatmeal. I don’t even think my mom knew what oatmeal was but either way, I never really understood the appeal in the mushy bowl of warm oatmeal that everyone else seemed to be eating.
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Tuna Pesto Pasta Salad with Avocado and Sundried...
I recently learned that you’re supposed to consume 12-ounces, about 2 average meals, per week of different kinds of fish and shellfish that are lower in mercury. This came as a bit of a shock to me because as much as I try do clean-eating, I really wasn’t incorporating any kind of fish into my diet. So in a panic, I bought a bunch of good quality caned tuna in hopes of trying to meet...
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Apple Pie Muffins
Jason, whom I haven’t seen in over 6 weeks, is finally coming home today! I’m so antsy I can’t even sit still. It’ll be amazing if I ever get through this post. That being said, I’ll have to keep this nice and short.
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Now this is probably the gazillionth muffin recipe on Damn Delicious but I can’t help muffinizing everything! Muffins are just so easy...
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California Eggs Benedict
Remember when I made the Poached Egg on Roasted Asparagus with Hollandaise? Well I had a ton of hollandaise sauce leftover so I decided to make some eggs benedict. But instead of using canadian bacon like traditional eggs benedict, I decided to go the meatless route with some fresh tomatoes and sliced avocado.
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These were an absolute cinch to whip up and served as one of my favorite...
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Muffin Monday: Jalapeno Cheddar Parmesan Cornbread...
Just about a year ago, I was the type of the person who cooked by following each recipe line by line. I made no adaptations nor any substitutions. I don’t know what it was. I think I was just scared to experiment and have it go south to a complete disaster and waste food. But now, I’ve been having such a blast taking the base of someone else’s recipe and adding my own personal...
Ingredient Substitutes to Use When You're in a...
Whether cooking for a swanky party, a class in your culinary arts program (such as these) or simply for friends, you might run out of that crucial ingredient for you signature dish and not have enough time to run to the store. Here are a few quick and easy tips for recipe revision to suit your busy schedule and your dinner guests.
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Sugar and Honey (keep in mind that honey is a wet...
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Holiday Recipe Club: Soy Chorizo Quinoa Salad
I know we just celebrated Buddha’s birthday last week for the Holiday Recipe Club but you know we couldn’t pass up Cinco de Mayo. Now the required ingredients for this installment were dulce de leche, tomatoes, and chorizo, but since I’m trying to be extra-healthy these days, I decided to make a fun Mexican quinoa salad with chorizo, black beans, corn, tomatoes, cilantro, and...
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Honey Cornbread Donuts and Mini Muffins with Lemon...
Ah, donuts. My favorite snack ever. I could seriously eat donuts and only donuts for the rest of my life. I mean you could have it glazed, sugared, cream-filled, jelly-filled… the possibilities are endless!
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With that said, here we have some honey cornbread, in the form of a donut. Awesome, right? Now if you’re a cornbread lover like me, you will LOOVE these donuts....
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Ginger Vegetable Stir Fry with Rice Noodles
Jason is moving back home in about a week, which I’m absolutely thrilled about, but I’m trying to do as much “clean-eating” as possible before he gets back because once he’s home, we’ll be surrounded by jalapeno poppers, nachos, fries, burgers, tacos, and pretty much every other kind of artery-clogging type of food.
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But until he comes home, I give...
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Poached Egg on Roasted Asparagus with Hollandaise
Homemade hollandaise sauce has been on my bucket list since forever, but since I didn’t have a blender other than the magic bullet, I was out of luck to give it a try. But I recently made an investment on a gorgeous looking blender so I immediately went searching for hollandaise sauce recipes.
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This one is particularly easy, and requires only 5 ingredients, ingredients that you...
