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    Printable Recipes!

    Some changes are happening around here – sorry for the recent lack of posting! I’m in the process of changing some of the formatting of the blog (mostly boring html site stuff which no one, including me, understands). But one fantastic new feature available in this change is PRINTABLE RECIPES! At the bottom of every [...]

    Chicken Meatballs with Coconut Curry

    I’ve been watching cookies get photographed at work all week. This, inevitably meant that I ate cookies all week. A lot of cookies. So when Matt mentioned curry as a dinner option this week, it had never sounded better. We make our curry with coconut milk which gives it a silky, smooth texture but it’s [...]

    Caramelized Onion Soup

    I am a major onion eater. I don’t care about the consequences, I could eat them like apples – even if it meant driving everyone around me far, far away. I love this onion soup because it’s easy and I always have everything I need for it right on hand. I don’t call it “French [...]