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Salted Caramel Pear Bread With Streusel Topping

Salted Caramel Pear Bread with Steusel Topping

They say necessity is the mother of all inventions. Not that I invented pear breads but I did however have to come up with something easy, delicious and “pear involve” since my pear tree was overflowing. I do not have the time nor the patience at this point to can or freeze 30 some pounds of pears. So I shared with friends and kept a good amount…

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Kale and Meatball Soup

I am at the end of my rope with my kale. Matt keeps mentioning blanching, freezing, saving for the end of the world…. I have enough in my freezer at this point to last us until we have grand children…WHICH WON’T BE ANYTIME SOON! So, what’s a resourceful girl like me to do? Make soup. In August. This happens a lot at our house, seasons don’t dictate our menu. Need and…

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Banana Zucchini Bread

I haven’t made a “new” bread at my house in quite sometime. I have to be honest I have been playing with/obsessing over new essential oils for my peeps….yup going all earthy on you guys! ;) Well, I am only half kidding. I mean this whole idea of less chemicals and less medicine is really something I am aiming for. Nothing against it but I am not a big fan of popping a…

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Birthdays Galore....

Birthdays Galore….

August is a crazy Birthday month for us.

Aug. 1 KP the mostest rad girl ;)

Aug. 3 sister in law & one and only neighbor

Aug. 9 Jeff (the bff’s husband) but it’s a whole week..or month or year birthday at this point! (some people really like to milk their birthdays)

Aug. 10 my little Bear

Aug. 11 my Wild Nephew

Aug. 12 My bro

Aug. 14 my loving Sunshine

Aug. 15 awesome two-some in-law twins

Aug.…

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Grilled Nectarines & Goat Cheese Crostinis

Grilled Nectarines and Goat Cheese Crostinis

I love Goat Cheese. Really any and all goat cheeses rock my world! It’s creaminess, it’s the fact that it’s cheese, it’s from a goat (such cuties), it’s easy to use, it’s versatile and it’s healthy. All around a win-win situation!

I almost called these bruschettas and I actually had to go figure out what’s the difference between a bruschetta and a…

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Grilled Maque Choux and Shrimp

Maque choux /’ma:kju:/ is a traditional dish of southern Louisinana. It is thought to be an amalgam of Acadian French (Cajun) and American Indian cultural influence, and the name is likely to derive from the French interpretation of the Native American name.

Thank you Wikipedia

This dish is often a side dish but I’ve had it as a main course and it was a perfectly…

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Dulce De Leche Frozen Yogurt

I decided to make this delicious combination because the other night my lovely husband treated me to a yummy dinner at Zydeco’s and then a frozen treat at Sub Zero. First off Zydeco’s Cajun Restaurant : DELICIOUS, FUN AND GREAT SERVICE! Win! It was featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Divesa few years back and I see the owner quite often at my part-time job (not the…

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Waiting....

Waiting…. http://wp.me/s1gW82-waiting

waiting

Yes…waiting that’s what our little Cooper has been doing, waiting for his big brother Riley. I see him wondering where the big guy is. It is heartbreaking to see him go out first thing in the morning and sit or lay on the patio waiting for his brother to finish his breakfast….but Riley isn’t eating his breakfast, he isn’t coming out, he isn’t home anymore and I don’t know how you tell a…

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Goodbye Old Friend

Yesterday we had to say Goodbye to our wonderful lab Riley. Riley has been with us since the girls were 3 and 5. They are now 15 and 17. 12 years of friendship from a dog who’s only fault was to love us unconditionally.

This was by far one of the hardest things we have had to do as a family.

We spent the day together and had pizza for lunch; Riley’s favorite: DiGiorno…he was a simple man,…

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Stuffed Poblano Peppers with Manchego Sauce

Stuffed Poblano Peppers with Manchego Cheese Sauce

This year when we planned our pepper garden I had one goal in mind: poblano peppers to make this recipe with my own poblanos… I didn’t want to use store bought, I wanted the freshest most delicious peppers I could get.

I love this recipe. In fact everyone at my house loves this recipe. I found the original idea on one of Rachael Ray‘s shows…

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Roasted Tomatillos Salsa

It took a big leap of faith on my part to not make my usual Salsa Verde . It’s Matt and I’s absolute favorite salsa. I use it for so much more than just chips and dip. I won’t bore you with all the details (go see recipes: here and here and here )….my brain can only handle so much information so let’s just talk about why a new tomatillos salsa?

It’s ROASTED which means…

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Summertime Salads

Here’s a little compilation of my favorite summertime salads.

I was talking to the lovely and gorgeous Beth the other day at my cousin McKenna’s open house (yay! done with high school…on to more schooling! HA! Life…). We talked about the “famous” Wild Rice Salad. To which my friend Jenny (from Jenny’s Famous Chicken Salad) said she was very much expecting me to show up with this particular…

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Lessons I Learned About Running

Running…love it or hate it… I am making it this Fantastic Friday’s topic ;)

All this started after I read my friend HaeWon’s post about the start of her experience while helping her friend John do an Ultra…as in Ultra Marathon = 100 miles….yep. 100 long crazy fool miles! Luckily HaeWon is only running the last 20 miles with him….hmmmm hahaha last 20 miles…that’s more than a MINI!

But I don’t…

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Pasta with Roasted Broccoli and Toasted Breadcrumbs

It’s the same old story: PASTA. I love pasta. There is no other way to say it. I think I have only heard maybe once or twice in my lifetime someone say they didn’t like pasta. Honestly my first thought was: “we can’t be friends, who doesn’t like pasta?!!!”. Sad but true….that’s me making friends through food since 1969! :/

So here I am…

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The Slumdog Martini

I am not going to lie to you, I really just grabbed this cookbook: Indian Cooking Unfoldedfrom my library because I needed something to read while my kids had appointments. I fell in love. It is filled with lovely recipes using TONS of spices and herbs….oh my! Inspirational! I have so many recipes I want to try but let’s first help ourselves to a lovely cocktail before the…

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Nicole's Fresh Strawberry and Spinach Salad

Nicole’s Fresh Strawberry and Spinach Salad

Fresh Strawberry and Spinach Salad

Nicole is one of our Lacrosse parents. We had a lovely end of the season Award “pitch-in” dinner. Nicole showed up with this AMAZING salad. So in good Isabelle fashion I asked for the recipe….not in a subtle quiet way but a direct reply to all email that I was looking for the recipe….unless it was top-secret (but we all know I wasn’t about to back down that…

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Pasta with Raw Tomato Sauce and Homemade Ricotta

When I started typing this I was actually sitting at school subbing on the very last day of school. Some people might call me crazy but I am happy to be here. While the kids finished up their finals and turned in every books that weight down their famous backpack, I was reading “Delancey” by Molly Wizenberg. Molly also wrote: “A Homemade Life“. …

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