Tag: recipes
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Dirty Martini Chicken Meatballs with Creamy Blue Cheese Orzo
Dirty Martini Pesto was one of my more unhinged Can It Pesto? recipes to date. It proved itself as an excellent burger topping, but I wanted to try something different—something that would allow the olive and blue cheese flavors to really shine. And so, these Dirty Martini Chicken Meatballs were born. Paired with deliciously creamy,…
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Cilantro Pesto Recipe (Can It Pesto? Series)
I had other intentions for the fourth edition of Can It Pesto?, but then two things happened—and this cilantro pesto recipe was born. First, I spent six worthwhile hours making the quesabirria tacos from the ArnieTex cookbook. Second, I had a full-on forest of cilantro growing in the top spot of my Gardyn (my indoor…
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Dirty Martini Pesto (Can It Pesto? Series)
For the third edition of Can It Pesto?, I decided to abandon leafy greens as the main ingredient and lean into something a little unexpected. Inspired by the bold, briny flavors of a dirty martini, this pesto swaps the usual greens and parmesan for olives, blue cheese, and a splash of martini energy — and…
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Turkey Tetrazzini with Poultry Herb Pesto
Turkey Tetrazzini with Poultry Herb Pesto is a total leftover-dump recipe — and I mean that in the best possible way. My husband makes the best smoked turkey on his enormous, 500-lb, wood-guzzling smoker, and because he loves the process so much, he tends to make… a lot of it. I can only make so…
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The Five Best Things I Made in January
January was a bit of a strange month this year. There was crazy cold weather all across the country (even in Florida and Texas), my husband was out of town for work for most of the month, and I did some traveling of my own as well. For all of these reasons, I cooked a…
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Gardyn-Fresh Salad with my Go-To Salad Dressing Recipe
I am about 60 days into my hydroponic Gardyn-growing journey, and I am happy to report that I’ve already been able to enjoy multiple super-fresh salads from the greens I’m growing right in my house. Today, I harvested five different kinds of greens and dressed them with my go-to salad dressing for an easy, delicious…
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Poultry Herb Pesto Recipe (Can it Pesto? Series)
This is the second installment in my Can It Pesto? series, where I take ingredients that are very much not basil and see whether they can, in fact, pesto. This time, I’m working with a classic poultry herb blend — the kind you usually associate with roast chicken, stuffing, or Thanksgiving — and turning it…
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Cookbook Roulette: Making Croque Madame from Matty Matheson’s Cookbook
I collect cookbooks, and in an effort to actually use them more, I decided to let a spinning wheel choose what I make for dinner. First, I added eight of my cookbooks to an online randomizer and hit “spin.” Then, I used a second wheel to randomly select a page number. The result? Page 205…
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Arugula Pesto Recipe (Can It Pesto? Series)
Pesto doesn’t always have to be about basil — in fact, with the right combination of ingredients, you can turn almost anything green (and maybe even a few things that aren’t) into a version of pesto. In this series, I’ll be testing all kinds of ingredients in pesto form to see: can it pesto? Or…
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5 Peppers I Grow Every Year for Homemade Hot Sauce (and more!)
I am by no means a pro gardener. For the last three years, I’ve mostly been winging it and doing cartwheels over every successful harvest. I got into gardening because I love to cook, and peppers and tomatoes are some of my favorite ingredients to work with in the kitchen. Hot peppers have been my…