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Pasta with Sausage and Peppers

July 20, 2022 by Lindsay 5 Comments

Easy pasta with sausage and peppers in a creamy sauce. Delicious for a weeknight or weekend entertaining, this is a quick pasta recipe that everyone loves! To add on, a quick green salad and no-knead bread made earlier in the day are really nice.

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In college, I sang in an a cappella group.

It was pretty cool, and now I work in a cappella. (cool in the eye of the beholder, obviously)

ANYWAY, one of my group's friends from another school was from an Italian family, and he and his friends (correctly) thought that it was super cool and grown up to cook for singing folks that traveled to their college for concerts.

And that is how I learned this somewhat untraditional, Italian-American twist on Pasta with Sausage and Peppers.

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22 Super Bowl Snack Ideas for 2022

January 26, 2022 by Lindsay 5 Comments

More than 22 DELICIOUS, easy Super Bowl 2022 Recipe Ideas! Whether you're doing a few cheese and cracker types of things or a full chili bar, here's all the best Super Bowl recipes in one place.

Gray plate of guacamole topped with cucumber relish and crushed peanuts.

...because otherwise tbh football is a waste of damn time. (don't. it's fine.)

So! Let's plan our party snacks for Super Bowl Sunday. I love a theme sometimes, like tacos with tons of toppings, pasta, or chili with ALSO ton of toppings, but I also love making a few really good snack foods that don't necessarily go together.

I mainly like Super Bowl recipes that can be made in advance and can be eaten at room temperature or warm-ish. Nothing that has to be straight out of the oven, although there are a few dips and chilis in this list that are great kept warm in the slow cooker.

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Cheddar Jalapeno Cornbread (Jiffy!)

January 24, 2022 by Lindsay 13 Comments

It's a box of Jiffy, a few pantry flavor ingredients, and suuuuper elevated jalapeno cornbread in just 30 minutes! I love these for dunking with no bean beef chili or vegan chipotle sweet potato chili.

close up jalapeno corn muffin on wire rack.

Years and years ago, I made chili on a weekend to eat throughout the week, and one night Jay made these delicious corn muffins to go with it. How's THAT for a succinct "everyone hates food blog stories" story?

The mix is regular old less-than-a-dollar Jiffy, but the add-ins are what makes it really special! You can add almost anything you like to a baking mix like this to change it up and make it your own!

Boxed cornbread mix is so convenient to keep around: homemade cornbread is so special and delicious, but there are definitely times where we need cornbread FAST without a lot of thinking. Enter: Jiffy.

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Whole30 Beef Stew

September 27, 2021 by Lindsay 8 Comments

This easy beef stew is whole30 compliant, gluten free, and DELICIOUS. One of the most delicious beef recipes for dinner, make a big batch of this and serve it all week for a delicious meal prep dinner! If you AREN'T avoiding gluten, a batch of no-knead Dutch oven bread should be in the plans as well!

white bowl with beef stew, potatoes, and carrots in front of a yellow dutch oven.

OK, here's your plan for the next snow day, sick day, chilly day, comfort-needing day:

This beef stew works with all of those situations and then some, why don't we have more beef stew on Christmas Eve? For Halloween dinner right before or right after trick-or-treating? I adore it; the simplicity of the flavors with the "well, yeah, I simmered it for awhile" satisfaction that makes it feel slightly fancy but totally unpretentious.

The method is simple: sear a bunch of beef chunks until they're really crispy on the outside. Toss some veggies in those drippings, then everything goes back into the pot together with tomato paste, garlic, spices. Broth makes it soupy, then it simmers covered for a bit, then uncovered to finish the dish and thicken the sauce.

The potato here breaks down a bit to thicken the sauce (so we don't need flour), and the end result is just SO delicious. I adore super soft cooked veggies in dishes like this, soaked in the broth mixture and just YES. Someone please make this for me asap, I think I feel a sore throat coming on (not really just want food brought to me).

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Easy Crockpot Butter Chicken

May 12, 2021 by Lindsay 14 Comments

Indian butter chicken in a slow cooker! This super delicious crockpot chicken curry has just 10 ingredients and no searing or extra chopping. The end result is luscious, creamy, delicious butter chicken with hardly any effort.

Hello, HELLO. I have been dying to tell you about this, 90s-sitcom-drama style.

The thing about Indian curry dishes is that they are not known for their ease of making. The really good ones have lots of ingredients, whole spices, hours of simmering, and generally lots of things that making cooking really fun, in my opinion.

BUT. Sometimes we want curry tonight. Now. Fast. Not a lot of fuss. The crockpot is an ideal cooking vessel for long-cooked stuff that needs time to develop flavors, and I love it because it can (probably, mostly) be left on while we leave the house or wander off to do other things. No checking, stirring, adjusting liquid levels, just easy crockpot chicken curry with 10 ingredients.

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