
Beef Tallow
I’m going to show you how to make “Liquid Gold” today otherwise known as beef tallow. If you’re the type of person who has ever saved your leftover bacon grease (or at least remember your mom and grandma doing that) and know how much flavor that adds when you cook with it – you’re going…

Lemon Ginger & Garlic Vinaigrette
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I normally don’t post salad dressing recipes independently, usually it’s a part of the flavor profile of whatever salad I am making and I like to keep them together. But this Lemon Ginger & Garlic Vinaigrette quickly became a versatile new favorite of ours. I first made it last summer when I spent a week…

Instant Pot Chicken Udon Noodle Soup
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Over the winter, Tory & I got together when we both had a Monday off and planned to look through a box of Nana’s recipes we’d received when she moved I had only recently received my Instant Pot and I was just itching to make some kind of soup with it. Via text conversations we…

Steakhouse Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing
What do you do when you plan to make Bacon Wrapped Blue Cheese Stuffed Dates for the first time and have absolutely no idea how much blue cheese you’ll need so you buy the double package at Costco and end up with one full container and then some leftover? Well if you’re me, you decide…

Pepperoni Rolls
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Last fall, Derek & I took a trip to Western Maryland and toured some civil war battlefields. Along the way at a small family owned bakery we picked up donuts for breakfast and some Pepperoni Rolls for a snack later in the day. They were just the ticket when we found ourselves wrapping up a…

Lemon Cod with Crispy Potatoes
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I may have posted about this before, but my close friends and family definitely know that I have a slight cookbook addiction. I love collecting cookbooks. Usually you can find on my coffee table the current cookbook I am ‘reading’ just like a novel, but I also have enough of a collection that I can…

Carrot Cake Cookies
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So you know you’ve stumbled on a good cookie recipe when you bring it to duck camp and your sister arrives 5 days after you, tastes the cookie and mentions how great they – after 5 days. Carrot cake is such a classic Easter dessert to me, but our Easter celebrations are kind of casual…