Food Gifts: Made With Love

For personal reasons, I wasn’t much in the Christmas spirit this year.  I didn’t send out Christmas cards, didn’t really do much Christmas shopping (just for the kids) or even put up lights outside the house.  I just didn’t feel like celebrating though I did keep up a few of our family traditions. As Christmas [...]

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A New Tradition: Korean BBQ Short Ribs

I don’t know about you but I get all turkey’d out over the holidays.  So when I passed one of the local restaurants when I was Christmas shopping and recalled the yummy dinner that my friend had the last time we dined there, I knew what I’d be making for dinner on the eve of [...]

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Gnocchi Verdi: An Accidental Chef Christmas Eve Tradition

This is the first Christmas Eve in recent memory where I will have the entire day to prepare dinner.  The past few years, Christmas Eve has fallen during the work week and I’ve had to rush through dinner prep in a few hours (which isn’t easy when you’re planning for 20!).  Luckily, I work from [...]

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25 Clever Ideas To Make Life Easier

You may have seen this email hit your inbox in the past few weeks. My sister-in-law forwarded it to me last week and as I read through the different tips, I was amazed by how clever some of them were (hello… storing linens in their pillow cases… brilliant!). I can’t tell you how many times [...]

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Tomato and Zucchini Soup

I love soup. I honestly think I could live on soup alone (and probably did my first few years of University). Here is one of my favorite soups. I usually make it in the fall when zucchinis and tomatoes are overflowing in the garden. But the tomatoes looked particularly beautiful at the grocery store today [...]

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Wrap Me A Chicken

I was in the mood for something a little different tonight for dinner so I opened my fridge and stared at the contents and put my Accidental Chef hat on.  I had some leftover chicken and some rice as well as some new gluten-free wraps that I wanted to try so I decided to make [...]

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No Bake Peanut Butter Fudge Cookies

I was at the grocery store last week and saw some Peanut Butter Fudge Cookies so I picked some up for my honey man.  A quick look at the ingredients and I could see that there were oats in it.  I’m gluten intolerant so always need to check labels before I eat something or I’m [...]

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Some Like It Hot Chili

I love chili!  I don’t know what it is about chili that just makes my tummy go yum!  I don’t tend to eat to much of it in the Spring and Summer but come the colder temperatures, you can find me eating chili at least three or four times a month.  This year I tried [...]

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Ricotta and Spinach Stuffed Chicken

Do you ever have days when you realize you’re in a rut… or at least your dinner table is in a rut?  That’s how I felt today when I opened the fridge to grab some chicken and make dinner.  Was planning to make breaded chicken which is a favorite with the honey man (I usually [...]

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LaRocca Caramel Crunch Cake

I’ll be the first to admit that I have yet to perfect this recipe but I am getting much better at it.  I’ll also be the first to admit how pleasantly surprised I am that the original cake itself is gluten-free so I didn’t have to experiment in order to make a gluten-free variation.  My [...]

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