August 2010

Garlic Chicken & Spinach Gnocchi

25 August 2010
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I started a new job last week which I’m absolutely loving. Problem is, I forgot how exhausting a new job is — Having your mind ON constantly to absorb everything, meeting a million new people and trying to remember their names, figuring out what in the world you’re doing. Throw in the fact that in [...]

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Corn Muffins | Project Pastry Queen

22 August 2010
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Hubby is a flight instructor which means he’s always got a flow of students coming & going. Most are local but sometimes he gets international students. Recently, he had two students from France who were here for six weeks. We gladly took the opportunity to show them some good old Texas / Southern cuisine, which [...]

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Watermelon Lemonade | Project Pastry Queen

15 August 2010
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This week was my turn to host Project Pastry Queen. Its hard choosing a recipe from a cookbook where every recipe looks and sounds fantastic, especially as we continue to try more recipes and learn that Rebecca’s recipes are in fact just as tasty as they look and sound! There are some caramel brownies in [...]

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Frito Pie

12 August 2010
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This recipe comes to you courtesy of my friend, Jill of Baby Rabies. She just got back from BlogHer; But back when she first started planning for BlogHer she found a restaurant in NY that she really wanted to go to for the purpose of Frito Pie. I told her it was a shame that [...]

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Orange Cream Sherbet

10 August 2010
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Its really hot this summer. Technically its not as hot as it was last summer, but somehow it seems worse this year or I’m becoming a bigger and bigger wimp. You’d think that being born & raised in Texas would mean that I have some sort of tolerance from the heat but no! One of [...]

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