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Satisfy your comfort food cravings

Satisfy your comfort food cravings

After a long day, digging into a hearty pasta dish or a piping hot bowl of soup can fill you with warmth and coziness - especially on those chilly days. The good news is that comfort foods don't have to be unhealthy or take a lot of time to make. We can still enjoy the rich, flavorful options that feed your cravings with easy-to-make dishes that incorporate wholesome, nutritious ingredients (some taken directly from your grocery store's chilled foods section). Here are some h

The Best Christmas Sugar Cookies Ever

The Best Christmas Sugar Cookies Ever

If you’ve been searching for the best sugar cookie recipe to bake for your holiday gifts and parties then your search is over. This sugar cookie recipe produces the fluffiest, tastiest and easiest to decorate cookies you’ve ever made. You will never go back to your old recipe again. This recipe has been passed down in our family since the early 1900’s. Back then no woman worth her salt used measuring cups or teaspoons to make a recipe, she did a pinch of this and a handful

Quick & easy slow cooker dinners

Quick & easy slow cooker dinners

Stressing over dinner is a waste of time; you should be enjoying time with your family instead. Prepare the ingredients needed for your meal ahead of time and let your slow cooker do the work for you instead of worrying about what to make when you get home. Get started with the three delicious dinner recipes below. These recipes are simple to prepare and made with easy-to-find ingredients. Hamburger Stew 2 potatoes, cubed 3 carrots, sliced 1 onion, sliced 1 cup celery, sli

Would you like some pickled onions?

Would you like some pickled onions?

At America's restaurants, you may have noticed more appetizers and entrees draped with pickled onions in the last couple of years. You may have been adventurous enough to try them, learning how their tartness coupled with onion flavor kick every dish up a notch, bringing tired flavors into a new era. Pickling has been around some 4,000 years as a way to preserve vegetables. It became popular in 18th century England as a way to preserve food, according to savoringthepast.net,

Quick and creative ways to use up bananas

Quick and creative ways to use up bananas

If you’ve ever watched the bananas in your fruit bowl overripen by the day, promising yourself you’ll make banana bread, until you finally give in and toss them in the compost, then this is the post for you. Read on for five quick, delicious and (mostly) healthy ways to use up your bananas. The best part? None of them resemble banana bread! 1. Chop into oatmeal Soft bananas make the perfect natural sweetener for a steaming bowl of oatmeal. Immediately after adding the oats

How can you go wrong with chocolate, bourbon and pecans?

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