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Enchilada casserole from Cooking Light…  Also a Mexican cabbage salad (which I made up), corn on the cob and a chipotle sauce for the corn, also from Cooking Light. Cabbage salad: CabbageWhite distilled vinegarRed Wine vinegarSugar (about a tbl)Lime juiceVegetable … Continue reading →

I just don’t think to photograph my dinners often, perhaps because they never look appetizing in a picture. But they are! Here is one I did remember: From my new Cooking Light cookbook: oven-fried buttermilk chicken and corn fritter casserole … Continue reading →

I referenced these little beauties from my weekend post, and here is some more detail. These are chocolate chip cookie-vanilla cupcakes from Martha Stewart Living (July 2011 issue) The recipes themselves are fantastic; worth buying the issue for! She starts … Continue reading →

 Calla lilies from our yard  Delicious 5-cheese pasta from Barefoot Contessa.  Table set and ready to eat  My mom made this delicious and very different salad of endive, fennel, apples, blue cheese, candied walnuts, and a champagne vinaigrette  Garlic roasted chicken … Continue reading →

Another Hungry Girl 1, 2, 3 Recipe that turned out wonderfully… I couldn’t find light Thai peanut dressing, as called out in the recipe, so I made my own using natural unsalted peanut butter, rice vinegar, cilantro, lime juice, and … Continue reading →

If you read yesterday, you know that the onion soup I made exploded all over me. So I do not have a picture of the soup, but believe me, it wasn’t very exciting to look at. These awful and disgusting … Continue reading →

Need a quick dinner idea? Try paninis and salad with green goddess dressing!  It looks like green play doh, but it’s delicious and healthy!  Mmmm paninis with pesto, mozarella, tomatoes, and basil  Green goddess ingredients, minus the green onions and … Continue reading →

Another successful football night dinner that I thought I’d share–and it was 99% completed by the time I walked out the door in the morning: Healthy Half-Veggie Chili Bread Bowls! It did require an exclamation point because it was delish! … Continue reading →

Two weekends ago I made the best chocolate cake ever. Seriously. It all started with a Williams-Sonoma cake mix given to me by the lovely Christina (I suppose her husband was involved as well). I made some chocolate buttercream from … Continue reading →

Yeah so I know it’s Tuesday, but these are some Monday happenings I wanted to write about. To start my day, it was already like 150 degrees outside which was gross. Then I get a message from my brother asking … Continue reading →