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Recipe: Sliders and Sweet Potato Fries

I am a huge hamburger fan. The only trouble with living in the Chicago area in Winter is the cold weather that inevitably appears and makes it virtually impossible grill. I recently started reading the blog “Panini Happy” and stumbled across this post in the archives. I was inspired to make sliders [...]

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Pumpkin Time!

We got a Pumpkin in the last CSA box of the year.  In doing a little research, I decided I was going to cook it and make fresh Pumpkin puree.  I mean, that has to be better than the canned stuff right? I also ended up making Roasted Pumpkin Seeds.  I figured, why waste it!  [...]

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Recipe: All-American Mini Meatloaves

I made these totally awesome Meatloaves the other night. I wanted to try the recipe because it claimed that you could have meatloaf in 30 minutes and that greatly intrigued me. Most recipes I’ve seen take an hour or more to put together and bake. I haven’t eaten meatloaf in a great [...]

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How I Cook

Before I post my first recipe to the site, I thought I’d expain a little bit about my methods. I’ve got 2 things I generally keep in mind when I cook.

First, the recipe has to be fairly simple (especially if it’s a weeknight). This means that it has to have simple instructions and [...]

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