I love summer time. I love the heat, the summer showers, the smell of sunscreen. I love watching my boys play in the pool and get dirty in the yard.…
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Crawfish Etouffee Cornbread Bites with Honey Mustard Sauce
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Fried Shrimp Po-boy with Jalapeno Lime Ailoi
Recipe Featured on Yummly! Check it Out! Fried shrimp. It is nothing extraordinary but if your from the South or live in the South you know what I mean when…
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Salted Caramel Cane Oatmeal Cookies
A few weeks ago my sister-in-law posted this picture on facebook with this simple caption “Savoring my last salted caramel oatmeal cookie from #magpiesbakery in #Knoxville! That place won my…
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Caprese Open Face Sandwich
Is it just me or are tomatoes just everywhere. I am finding little mom and pop stands on every street corner selling them, they have graced the cover of every…
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Mexican Chicken HandPies with Buttery Vodka Dough
Hand Pies are kind of the bomb. You can serve them as an appetizer or an entree or even a dessert. You can stuff them with chicken, pork, beef, or…
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Shrimp, Zucchini and Pesto Gnocchi
One of my favorite things about the spring is having an abundance of basil- which in turn means I have an abundance of pesto. You would be hard-pressed to find…
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Pulled Mexican Lime Chicken
Tacos! We are taco loving people in this house. I grew up eating tacos just about every week at some point or another and I also had to grow up…
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Sweet and Salty Bacon Topped Quiche
I wanted breakfast but I did NOT want to have 3 dishes going on at once- frying bacon, cutting biscuit dough and scrambling eggs. So I thought it was about…
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Parmesan Garlic Spaghetti Squash with Roasted Broccoli & Baby Peas
What is the next best thing to a bowl of pasta? A bowl of spaghetti squash! I have always always adored spaghetti squash. For one it is so easy to…
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Simply Delicious Falafel
I have a love hate relationship with falafels. The addition of too many extra ingredients and spices can leave it almost unrecognizable but the absence of them can cause it…
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Banana’s Foster Upside Down Cake
The very first dessert I ever shared with my husband was the famous banana’s foster at Commander’s Palace in New Orleans. It was a dessert worth remembering. Rich, buttery, decadent…
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Orzo with Lemon Artichoke Pesto, Roasted Garlic, Corn and Cherry Tomatoes
I am a big fan of one pot meals. I like having one dish to clean. I like plopping the one pot down in the center of the table and saying dig…
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Tie-Dyed Swirls- St. Patrick’s Day Cookies
St Patrick’s day is right around the corner and these adorable retro tie-dyed sugar cookies are the best way to celebrate! I originally got the idea from a store bought…
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Golden Girl Granola
I adore granola. I have plenty of granola recipes on this blog and although I am obviously an advocate of all things homemade, I am also a fan of not…
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Green Powerhouse Salad with Lemon Peppercorn Dressing
We have had a lot of king cake and candy consumption in this house for the past few weeks. Celebrating Mardi Gras and then Valentine’s Day has given us our…
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