Our new house has a beautiful kitchen...but I don't know how to cook. Mike dared me to whip up one meal a week, and I accepted the challenge. Armed with my Gramma's handwritten recipes, I plan to learn how to cook - and win Mike's dare.

Shamrock Beach

March 16, 2012

I tended bar on one St. Patrick’s Day, and it was as crazy as you might expect. One of the more veteran bartenders warned me that the guys would all ask for Guinness, and the girls would all ask for, “something tasty and green, hee hee hee!” I whipped up an easy drink for this [...]

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Cereal Cookies

March 9, 2012

My Gramma made all sorts of cookies when we were growing up, but nothing went over as wildly as her Cereal Cookies. They were famous in our neighborhood. Lots of my friends have the recipe now and make the cookies for their kids, which I know would make my gram so happy. Cereal Cookies You [...]

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Crock Pot Tri Tip With Homemade BBQ Sauce

March 2, 2012

My friend Leslie makes the most delicious barbecue tri tip sandwiches. Mike drools over them. I think they are great, but I can keep it in check, jeez Mike. I asked her for the recipe, and it was so easy – two pounds of tri tip roast and a bottle of BBQ sauce thrown into [...]

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Chicken Tomato Pasta

February 24, 2012

I’m not going to lie, this is so ridiculously easy that it really should be called, “Chicken Tomato DUH Pasta.” The ingredients are obvious…well, except to me, because my brain doesn’t work like that. And I know there are probably a billion recipes exactly like this because DUH but I am still proud of myself [...]

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Heavenly Hash

February 17, 2012

My favorite comfort food is something my Gramma used to make called Heavenly Hash. When I had a rough day or was sick, my Gram would make Heavenly Hash to make me feel better. During both my pregnancies, my mom would make it for me as it was one of the few things I could [...]

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Cherry Cream Cheese Pie

February 10, 2012

My Gramma wrote down most of her recipes, but she made some of our favorites so often that the only “recipe” she had was a scrap of paper with some scrawled-out ingredients. My mom and aunts were able to figure out the instructions for most of these recipes, but the family favorite Cherry Cream Cheese [...]

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