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Simple Brined Turkey Breast My simple brined turkey breast is so easy and there are just a couple tricks to make it perfect. Unless you have lots of $$ to spend to buy a fresh turkey, you’ll buy it frozen. Please, pretty pretty please don’t try to defrost on your counter.  It takes a little planning.  Mine that I got at Mariano’s was 8.5 pounds...

This black bean and sausage stew is so delicious and it’s crazy how flavorful it is with only 20 minutes in an instant pot. I was watching Somebody Feed Phil on Netflix.  He was in Brazil and he was eating a dish called feijoada.  It’s a classic dish from Brazil and typically uses, let’s say, less used ingredients like pigs ears and feet. I went...

Butternut squash twice baked potatoes are so good!  A little sweet, a little spicy and would be the perfect side dish to your Thanksgiving table. Best part is these butternut squash twice baked potatoes can be made ahead. Simply stuff the potatoes and then right before broiling, add the cheddar cheese.  Now is not the time to use fat free cheese, please and thank you....

 This roasted broccoli cheddar soup is better than Panera.  Yep – I said it! For some reason I had a taste for broccoli cheddar soup and I knew once upon a time I made one.  I did.  You can find the shitty food photography here. Back then though, I really tried to get the LOWEST points on every single recipe.  I’d add the recipe into...

This black pepper stir fry sauce was so good.  If you love cracked pepper as much as I do, this sauce is for you. I am a self-proclaimed condiment whore.  If you are too, then you probably already have everything to make this sauce. The best part of this sauce was the fresh cracked pepper.  It has a nice warm feeling without being too spicy....

This movie theater popcorn chicken is next level.  Who knew you could use buttered popcorn spray on chicken?! I wish I was one of those food bloggers who had that act together who prepped food way in advance. Most food bloggers are already working on Christmas and January recipes.  Me? I realized I had a chicken breast that was about to go bad and needed...

Black bean soup is one of my favorite soups.  But I normally use dried beans and it takes hours to make.  Enter Instant Pot Black Bean Soup with canned black beans!  My daughter Hannah reminds me all the time of a black bean soup I made pre-blog and never wrote down.  She declared it the best soup I ever made – Hannah, I think this...

A week ago I had never even heard of vegan pakora.

  If you haven’t tried pumpkin bisque, you are really missing out. It screams fall! I bought a small pie pumpkin, called a sugar pumpkin and had a small butternut squash and decided to use both in this soup. Can you roast vegetables in an air fryer? Yep! This is the best part of this recipe, you just air fry the pumpkin and butternut squash...

 When my husband was alive, our Friday night conversations went like this:  Me: “Hey honey, I am meal planning.  What do you feel like having this week?”  Hubs: “I don’t care.”  Me: “Really?  You don’t have a taste for anything?”  Hubs: “Nope, whatever you make is fine.”  While I loved that conversation because that meant I could fix whatever I wanted, when it came time...