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At my nephew Reed’s bris, the caterer suggested adding olive bread to the menu. It was a last minute addition, but it was such a good add. I didn’t get his recipe, but I guessed at the ingredients and made some adjustments so it became my own: First, make an olive tapenade. Start by finely…
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Three things that are going well this week
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Since my beau was out with friends last night, I decided to take advantage of the opportunity to try a new recipe that, because it was meat-free, I knew wouldn’t be up his alley. Now, hearing that a supper is vegetarian is almost enough to scare me away, too, but this quinoa bowl is pretty…
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Quinn is a 20-something still trying to get her life together. She hates her job but doesn’t know what else to do, she’s still getting drunk and bringing home strange men, and she subsists on frozen pizza because she doesn’t know how to cook a proper meal. But when her roommate and best friend, Esther, is…
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My go-to shrimp accompaniment is pasta. But I’m trying to be healthy on weeknights (ugh, kill me) and I’d already had pasta the night before so I felt I’d hit my quota and needed to slow my roll. Instead, I made a salad, but I jacked it up with lots of Southwestern flava so I…
Read MoreWeekends are for weddings! If you’re like me, with 9 weddings each year, the weekends are, quite literally, for weddings (attending them, that is). Also if you’re like me, the weekend is a time to think about planning your own wedding. Lots of people carve out a certain time each week for to wedding planning…
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The high and low from the week of 5/2
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Are you into these one-pot meals that are popping up all over Pinterest? I am. One pot to cook, more importantly, means one pot to clean. It’s called motivation, people. I decided my one pot meal should be orzo based because it’s cuter than regular pasta. Then I just picked some chicken sausage and random…
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3 things making me happy this week
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Part of the fun of enjoying a meal is dressing for it. The right outfit sets the mood. I think the food just tastes better when I’m dressed appropriately for the occation. My ensemble for a night out with the girls is very different from the one I would wear to a Sunday boozy brunch.…
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Peaches to Apples 