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Twice Baked Potatoes & Arugula Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing
I’ve seen several recipes for salads with a warm bacon dressing, and I have to admit, I was intrigued. I’ve been wanting to try it out for some time now and finally got a chance to last night. I was in the midst of making some other food for the week to come and bacon…
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When Life Gives You Apples…Make Hard Cider!
When we first moved into our house 5 years ago, I noticed that we had a crabapple tree in our side yard. Some years it has bloomed beautifully and produced a good amount of apples; other years, it hasn’t done much. The deer frequently come up to munch on the dropped apples or eat them…
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Cast-Iron Skillet Blueberry Cobbler
This post may surprise some of you who know that I am not typically a fan of cooked fruit. However, after some conversations about Blueberry Cobbler at work last week, I decided I wanted to give it a try. I had made a Blackberry Cobbler once before after picking fresh wild blackberries with my mom…
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Brew Blog: Grand Rapids Brewing Company
After an unexcusably long hiatus, it’s time to get back to the Brew Blog! We took some time off of our brewery tour as the weather got nice last year, but we’ve knocked off several new places this winter that I have not gotten around to posting yet. First places first, we’ll start with the…
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Appetizer Plate: Garlic Goat Cheese Spread, Roasted Red Pepper Spread, Caponata
After going out with Tom for drinks and appetizers a few weeks back — and the appetizer plate not coming as specified on the menu — I had been wanting to make my own appetizer platter as a fun and different dinner. I wanted to do a set of spreads that I could put over…
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Croissant French Toast
I wanted to make a special Christmas breakfast this year. I was perusing Pinterest and saw a recipe for Cranberry French Toast Casserole (which sounded pretty good), when an even better idea hit me. There’s a restaurant in downtown Northville (Rebecca’s) that Tom and I love and used to frequent. Every time we went for…
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Cheese & Tomato Pasta Roll-Ups
I made up another new recipe for dinner tonight. I had several late season tomatoes sitting in my kitchen that were just begging to be made into some sort of sauce. At least, I think that’s what I heard them saying. I thought of doing goat cheese ravioli made with wonton wrappers and putting a…
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Spinach Dip Wonton Appetizer
As I was making up a list of things I wanted to make for this year’s Halloween party, I though about making these mini quiches that I made last year. They were a lot of work, though. One of my friends recommended a similar appetizer, but made with wonton wrappers. What a great idea! I…
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Fall Gardening & Yellow Salsa
My best Brandywine tomato of the year – just harvested! Now that it’s fall, I feel like my garden should be winding down; but, in fact, I have quite a bit still coming in. In part, this is due to the fact that my tomatoes did not begin to ripen until very late in the…
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Mayo-Free Chicken Salad
I had chicken salad at a friend’s house a while back. I normally don’t eat chicken salad, because it’s typically slathered in mayonnaise, which I despise. The recipe my friend made didn’t have a strong mayo taste, and it was actually really good! I decided that I should try making it sometime, but I would…
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