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Lucky Bread: Onions, provolone, and smoked paprika butter

Onion, smoked paprika, and provolone baked bread

It’s still cold as hell out, which means the comfort food is going to keep on coming!  Today I’m sharing with you a classic family recipe: Lucky Bread.  Why do we call it Lucky Bread?  Who the hell knows.  I’m pretty confident that this came from a PTA cookbook from…

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Savory Olive and Rosemary Quickbread Muffins

Have I mentioned like 1,000 times that I’m behind on my Christmas party prep?  Well finally after this weekend I’m a little bit less panicked.  About half of my savory bite-sized items were prepared so now I can breathe a little.  One of the new recipes I came up with…

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Crock Pot Tortilla “Breakfast” Casserole

Hey, y’all.  So I feel like I’m still not getting the whole Crock Pot/Slow Cooker thing the way others do.  It seems like an awesome thing to come home and find dinner waiting for you, but I definitely don’t feel like going to the kitchen in the morning.  I’m an…

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Creamy Slow Cooker Gnocchi Soup

It’s definitely fall here in Virginia.  We’ve had two real freezes so it’s time for comfort food!  And for me, comfort food definitely means soup.  I’ve been making a variation of this Chicken and Gnocci Soup for a while now, and it is so damn delicious!  Given how much I’ve…

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Smoky butternut squash risotto

I’m really surprised to find that I haven’t posted a risotto recipe.  It’s kind of my go-to comfort food.  And I distinctly remember making a dish really similar to this a couple month ago because one of my coworkers started drooling at the smell of my leftovers at lunch time. …

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First Tomato Sauce of the Year!

It seems that the image most people have of making tomato sauce is grandmas stirring all day over these giant pots that they can’t even lift.  Not so in my kitchen.  I make tomato sauce a couple times a week from late June through September, and it’s really a pretty…

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