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Sweet Home Risotto…

October 27, 2008

Tonight I cooked Sweet Potato Risotto from the November issue of Real Simple. It was awesome – previously, I’ve cooked a tomato and sausage risotto that I saw on We Are Not Martha last year. It turned out good, but it was a bit heavy. All in all a really easy recipe, I did realize [...]

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Be Like that….

July 6, 2008

You know…like that. I dunno. I’ve kind of been in a bloggy slump lately. Seriously, like i remember the next day that I needed to blog. I remember, after four hours of hard core bedroom cleaning, selling items on Ebay (Yes! I’m selling clothes on Ebay! If you want the link…ask ), and cooking a [...]

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Here’s to the Red White and Blue..

July 4, 2008

Happy Fourth everyone… Today, instead of a real post, I’m going to post something awesome. Last year, at some point in the summer, I had a flag cake. I don’t know if that’s what they’re actually called but that’s what I’m going to call mine. I got the idea this morning watching the Food Network [...]

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And a Happy St. Pattys to you too…

March 16, 2008

So today…well tonight, in honor of St. Patricks Day, despite the fact that boyfriend and I didn’t do anything significant for the holiday – and by significant I mean going out and getting wrecked – I wanted to be festive. So we picked up a case of Guinness tonight and I made cupcakes. Yes you [...]

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Help for Susie Homemaker (in training)

March 11, 2008

Since i love love you bloggers…I need help. I hijack a lot of cooking ideas from you gals…specifically the girls over at wearenotmartha, julieq, and RA mostly. But for others of you who cook…where do you get your recipes? what are your favorite food/recipe blogs? To share…for your Irish/St.Pattys Day (early) pleasure…since I hijack from [...]

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Risotto rocks for the win!!!

February 24, 2008

Tonight was the big night…with my inspiration being the girls at WeAreNotMartha, I cooked Risotto. “Ladies have promised me Risotto, but none have delivered. You have delivered.” That’s…because I rock…observe… Tonight I made the Tomato and Sausage Risotto. Oh my god. Sooo good. So so very very good. I was a little worried because it [...]

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Susie Homemaker in action part 3

February 23, 2008

So tonight I made this for dinner…I saw it somewhere on a blog, got the recipe from What’s for dindin and decided it looked easy enough. I used a pinot grigio for the white wine, and it turned out delicious. I was a little uncertain whether the sauce was supposed to be thicker but it [...]

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Cooking with Heidi Part 2

February 1, 2008

So I decided to cook again last night. It was not nearly as messy as my attempt to bake and cook at the same time like the other night. This time I made the lighter chicken pot pie from Martha Stewart’s website as inspired by the awesome ladies at wearenotmartha who made this very meal [...]

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Betty Crocker’s Evil Twin

January 27, 2008

So a while ago, i saw a couple great recipes on the blogosphere for Banananananana bread and chicken enchiladas. So while I make my own enchilada’s i added some new spices today. It’s going to be a bit different since I forgot the enchilada sauce, but m’eh. I’m getting good at improv. So my banananana [...]

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