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Classics, Entertaining

Cheat Meals (and Magic Sauce)

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Cheat Meals (and Magic Sauce)

Cheat Meals and I are friends. Really close friends. If a Cheat Meal were a person, we would hang out at the pool and drink wine all the time-which would be a lot, since Cheat Meals are big on keeping you out of the kitchen. No, this type of “Cheat Meal” is not the bad dining choice you made on your dieting day off. This is a throw together in 15 minutes, forget about it for a few hours, and come home to absolute dining perfection-which will taste like you worked for hours. See. You want to hang out and have wine with Cheat Meals too. Continue reading “Cheat Meals (and Magic Sauce)” →

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Playground Dinner (and Spinach Pasta Sauce)

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Playground Dinner (and Spinach Pasta Sauce)

A full bag of spinach, a few cloves of garlic, a little cream, a handful of Parmesan cheese take you across the dinner finish line. The only thing making it better is having your kids eat it somewhere where you won’t have to scrub down a high chair.

I despise my highchair. In a first-time-parent snafu, I opted for cushy, modern and white! How naive I was to think it would stay that color. I tried though; I would spend an unacceptable amount of time scrubbing every nook and cranny, trying to rid it of whatever remnant of dinner clung to it’s leathery, upholstered surface. Needless to say, that plastic, no nooks, no crannies, once over, wipe-down, $20, Ikea highchair made it’s way into our home when my younger one hit 18 months. Experience at its finest.

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Dessert, Fave

Best Ever Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Best Ever Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

Even better than the ones you remember.

Yep, you read me right, I’m calling these what they are: the BEST ever gluten free chocolate chip cookies. I know all you non-gluten eaters out there have long been dreaming about the days you could indulge. You remember them like yesterday: the soft center and the slightly crisp edges. I’ve worked on this recipe for years. It’s tried and true and better than the ones you remember. So today’s your day, let’s pre-heat some ovens and get the glasses of milk ready. We’re having REAL cookies!

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