Tag: food
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Chicken Carbonara Pasta Bake
Carbonara is one of my favorite pasta dishes. When I visited Italy years ago, I kept trying to convince myself to try different dishes at restaurants but the carbonara always called to me! The eggs and melted cheese made such a creamy sauce…and really, how can anything involving bacon and bacon grease be disappointing? I…
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One Pan Chicken & Rice Dinner
Easy, quick, and only one pan to wash at the end. This rendition of the Campbell’s 15 Minute Chicken and Rice Dinner that my mom made often when I was young is a great recipe for a weeknight family dinner. Easy ingredients and a quick cook time make this an all-in-one meal that your whole…
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Chocolate Protein Nut-Free Granola
Crunchy. Chewy. Chocolatey. Contains fiber, protein, antioxidants, and more. This, my friends, is the best granola I have ever tasted. As I have said before, I love granola but have a difficult time finding delicious types that don’t have tree nuts or coconut – I have an allergy. Learning to make my own has cleared up that struggle, and now I am trying out…
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Easy Lasagna for Beginner Cooks
I was never much of a cook until I was a few years into my marriage. Growing up, my mom always had delicious, healthy, home cooked meals on the table most nights of the week. We almost always sat down to eat as a family, though sometimes on the fly as we ran in and out from…
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Delicious Homemade Fish Fry Breading Mix
Walleye. Northern Pike. Crappie. These are some of our favorite fish to catch in our area to have a fish fry with. While we love many different species of fish cooked in all kinds of ways, a big fish fry with fish we caught and cleaned is our favorite! Fishing is a big part of…
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Bread Machine Mini Sourdough Blueberry Bagels
My family LOVES bagels. We buy and eat them bags at a time. I am on a mission to try making our bread and snacks myself to cut out unnecessary ingredients and be more cost effective, and bagels are next on my list. My hope is that I can get into a groove with bagels…
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Chicken & Pasta with Lemon Garlic Sauce
Chicken and Pasta with Lemon Garlic Sauce Once in a while, I really like to get my “chef” juices flowing and create a meal from scratch without a recipe. Once you get comfortable making a few basics in the kitchen, this comes with repetition and practice. This lemon garlic sauce served over chicken and pasta…
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Delicious Family Recipe: Wild Game Bird Oven Bake
This family recipe for cooking game bird is not one to overlook. It is simple and delicious. I have yet to meet a person who didn’t love it after trying it. My favorite time of year is fall, and when partridge season opens we always hit the trails and back roads as a family looking…
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Easy Venison Marinades: Enhance Your Game Meat Cooking
Venison Marinades Learning to cook venison to make delicious, healthy meals for my family is a skill I have been trying to perfect over the last few years. It can be a tricky meat to prepare, and often gets a bad reputation of tasting too “gamey” or being too tough. After researching about cooking wild…
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Easy and Delicious Breaded Venison Chops
Growing up, Shake and Bake breaded pork chops with macaroni and cheese (spiral shapes, of course!) was one of my favorite meals. It is one of those meals that shoots me back to evenings around my parents’ dining room table for suppertime. I am not a big fan of pork chops as they can get…
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