Environmental Scientist Finding her Niche

Hi, my name is Dina! I am a plant mom, I have been experimenting with sourdough, and I absolutely love cooking! I wanted to create a virtual cookbook of recipes and share tips and tricks so we can learn together!

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Homemade eggplant parm! Next layer is the mozzarella 👌🏻 do you prefer to bake or fry your eggplant for eggplant parm?

I fried them for the first time and it was pretty tasty!

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We finalllly got around to trying ‘DJs Clam Shack’ on Long Island. we have been seeing so many people rave about it. We went for one hot and one cold and split them to compare. I have always loved cold lobster rolls but so many people rave about the hot ones.

The verdict is in: I loved the cold one and my fiancé loved the hot one! However they are both so good that you can’t really make a wrong decision🤤

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We got a new WOK! I’ve never cooked using a wok before. Last week I made a vegetable Thai curry and loved using this wok. I doubled the recipe and there was so much room for all the ingredients. What is your favorite recipe that uses a wok?

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This weekend was my bridal shower. I am so thankful for all love my family and friends showered me with. My mom planned the whole thing and of course the theme had to do with cooking 😊

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Has anyone tried making rice pudding? I’ve heard there are two ways to make it, boiling vs baking. I tried my great grandmothers recipe last night and it came out really good. I think I could’ve used a little less rice but still tasty. This recipe called for baking the rice pudding. Any opinions on which way is better?

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One of our favorite places, the Irish cottage, closed due to the pandemic. Last night we were walking to get pizza and passed by the former Irish Cottage and were SO HAPPY to see them re-open as “The Cottage”! We decided to eat there instead of grabbing pizza to support them 🤤

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Mexican chicken bowls! This was an easy and cheap meal prep. I tossed the chicken in 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil and taco seasoning and used our new air fryer. The chicken came out tender, juicy, and declicious! Used Spanish rice, corn, black beans, lettuce, salsa, gauc, red bell pepper, and threw the chicken on top. Yummm

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Went camping a few weekends ago. I was worried about sleeping at night, I’ve never been camping in the summer. It was lovely! Hot and sunny during the day so we rented tubes and floated/swam in the water all day and it was cool at night. Truely a Perfect weekend. I am already trying to plan our next camping weekend!

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Homemade quesadillas! Super easy vegetarian southwestern quesadillas packed with veggies and tastes delicious. Simply stir-fry some onions, peppers, mushrooms, black beans, and corn with some olive oil, salt, pepper, chili powder, and cumin. Once all those veggies get soft, heat a clean pan with some butter and put a tortilla on the pan, cheese, a layer of the cooked veggies, some more cheese, and top with another tortilla. After a few minutes, flip the quesadilla and then serve hot and melty and delicious! I added some sour cream and salsa

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Chicken broccoli mushroom pasta bake! At first glance this recipe seemed to be more complex than I wanted for a weekly dinner recipe but it was pretty simple and super tasty! This is a good recipe if you want to make large portions and is super filling.

This recipe calls for milk to make a mushroom cream sauce, since I am lactose intolerant i substituted with lactaid milk and it worked great! I also added some cubes of mozzarella mixed into the pasta, highly recommend.

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Happy places

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Garlic Rosemary balsamic roasted pork tenderloin ! That title is a mouthful, this recipe was packed with flavor and only with a few fresh ingredients. I should’ve roasted the potatoes a bit longer but the pork cake out so tender and not dry at all! Check out the recipe here

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You can say that again!

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Cheese tortellini baked with spinach, sundried tomatoes, and mozzarella! This was a super easy quick recipe I made for our lunches this week. Partially boil the tortellini and layer it with sauce/mozzarella/sun dried tomatoes/spinach then bake it in the oven for 20minutes. I recommended using plenty of suace!

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OVEN FRIED CHICKEN WITH BROCCOLI + HONEY GARLIC SAUCE

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This looks like a good one to try!

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Cinnamon raisin sourdough! This recipe was super easy and is hands down my best sourdough yet! I used this recipe, which has clear instructions especially for beginners.