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Simple and Delicious Sweet Potato Mac and Cheese
Like most moms, I am always looking for ways to get more veggies into the kiddos. This is an awesome recipe to get some sweet potatoes into them. It uses their absolute favorite food vehicle, Mac and cheese. Which they could live on breakfast, lunch and dinner if I let them. This recipe comes together super quickly and easily and my girls gobbled it up. It was also yummy enough that I would also eat it any day of the week! The kids can make this one with you or for the little bit older ones, they can make this for you. We do the sweet potato in the microwave, so just be…
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Quick and Simple Apple Topping
Today it definitely started feeling like Fall weather outside. Fall for sure means Pumpkins, warn spices, and APPLES!! Yep, apples are the best in the Fall. Especially if you go apple picking and get them fresh from the tree. I know that we are all looking for fun and easy ways to use up all of those yummy Fall apples and this recipe is super simple and easy. We put it on top of pancakes, Emoji pancakes to be specific! That is all that I am allowed to make in my house these days! Yet, they are perfect on any pancake, french toast, waffle or even on ice cream. This would be incredible…
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White Bean Ragout
I absolutely love Fall food and flavors for so many reasons. The biggest reason is though that they are so bold and hearty and stew and braise and simmer for hours. This creates amazing complex flavors in so many ways. It was a rainy chilly day here in Chicago land and so it was the perfect day for some hearty, bold flavors and this white bean ragout was the absolute perfect thing. You can pair this with meats, sausage would be amazing with this. I paired it with some perfect filets of Chilean Sea Bass. The recipe for the Chilean Sea Bass is below and it was a match made in heaven. To…
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Blueberry Peach Crumble
This was the perfect end of Summer dessert. I made this dessert for a Labor Day party that we went to today and it was a huge hit. I have made countless crumbles between work and home. This was definitely a keeper recipe. I did something slightly different than I normally do in the topping. Instead of adding chunks of butter or even just straight melted butter… I used brown butter in this crumble. I also used brown sugar in the topping versus regular sugar. The nutty addition of the brown butter and the slight molasses flavor in the brown sugar both complimented the fruit perfectly. I always say to use recipes as…
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Homemade Peach Pie
One of my favorite things about Summer is in season stone fruit. I absolutely love peaches, nectarines and plums. I love to just eat them whole. I also really love them cooked. Whether it be grilled, baked in a pie, in a crumble or just baked on their own and served with vanilla ice cream. So, you can only imagine how excited I was to learn when I started dating my now husband, that his parents grow peaches in the back yard!! What?? Home grown stone fruit for Summer… YAAAASSSS!!!!! It was like I hit the mother load! I always enjoy the peaches that they send home for us, but this year was…
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3 Ingredient Popsicles
Summer time is the best time for cold treats!! Who doesn’t love a Popsicle? My daughters looooove them some popsicles! They call them popals!! There are some amazing store bought varieties BUT, I love controlling how much sugar they have. So, making them allows me to do that and to know what is going into them. These are the simplest and tastiest popsicles and you can change them up super easily. You can just swap out the fruit that you use. In these I used peaches, but we have also done this recipe with berries and pineapple! The sky is the limit with whatever fruit you have available. In these I used frozen…
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Summer Seafood
So, here is Illinois, we are obviously land locked. However, that does not mean that we cannot have and make some amazing seafood! We are so lucky today to be able to get wonderful, fresh seafood anywhere in the country. Now that the weather is warming up it is awesome to eat lighter and fresher than ever! Seafood is a great way to do that. Also, right now, you may not be able to get to your Summer vacation because of what is happening in the world. It’s ok, you can bring the sea and the seafood to your backyard! These are three of my favorite Summer seafood dishes. The first one is…
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Beef and Pepper Stir Fry
I love Chinese take out and this was like we ordered Chinese in!! You will not miss the delivery when you make this! It is so simple and takes just like your favorite! I used the little sweet bell peppers in this dish, but you can use the regular sized bell peppers as well. Whatever you have on hand or can grab at the store. Just use slightly less if you use the large ones. I love the addition of the other veggies her as they add to the flavor and cut through the sauce nicely. I served this with plain white rice and crispy rice noodles and it was awesome. You can…
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Unicorn Cookies
I am always on the look out for fun new things to use in the kitchen with the girls! A few months back I found Frozen chips and we made cookies with those! Well, I was at our local grocery store and I found Unicorn chips! As a girl mom, I HAD to get them! My oldest daughter, who is almost 3 years old, was especially excited for these! So is all about unicorns and rainbows and anything colorful and girly! My younger daughter, 20 months, was excited because her sister was excited! HAHAHA! https://www.facebook.com/stephanie.kuti.3/videos/10220916279589587/ Cookies, Brownies or Cupcakes I was trying to decide if we should make cookies, brownies or cupcakes with…
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Tomato Basil Cream Sauce
We go to a lot of big Italian family parties, (well, pre-Covid we did)! These parties are for baptisms, first birthdays, weddings, baby showers… you know, the BIG events! Being that we are a BIG Italian family we usually have some sort of pasta course at these events. More often than not, it will be vodka sauce, which I love!! My hubs always just wants marinara.. but the girls have grown to really enjoy the vodka sauce,(alcohol cooks out!!)! I normally don’t make other sauces at home because my the hubby doesn’t like the cream sauces. Well, about a month ago we celebrated our wedding anniversary and my mom sent us dinner in…
