I felt terribly last week when the best cookies ever didn't turn out to be, well, the best. What's a girl to do? I had no choice but to pull out my tried and true chocolate chip cookies. I have modified this recipe so many times, first for altitude {we are in Colorado after all} and more recently vegan. So, I pretty much follow this except for switching out the butter for earth balance and eggs are egg replacers {I use ever-g brand}. I cream the earth balance and sugar together first and then add the rest of the ingredients {minus the flour and chocolate chips} one at a time until incorporated

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While I pondering recipe ideas for today's in the oven, I decided to ask the kids what they wanted to make. Thomas jumped at the opportunity... "We should make the BEST COOKIES EVER!!" Okay, I'm game... "What's in these cookies?" "Oh, flour, butter... CHEESE!"... "Cheese? In a cookie?"... "Oh yes!!" So, off to google I went and found just that... Cheddar Cheese Cookies! It surprisingly called for those exact three ingredients... Off we went on our quest to make the BEST COOKIES EVER! The kids also decided that instead of making balls as the recipe calls for, we'd

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Today I'm mixing it up a bit and instead of trying out a new recipe, I'm showing you all my tried and true one. Meatballs... so totally NOT vegan, but soo good. {You gotta throw in some meat sometimes, right?} I am loosely calling this a recipe as there is much more an art to making meatballs than science. I start out with some good ground beef, in the 80-85% lean variety. I add an egg and a small handful of romano/parmesan cheese {dairy free? I have been known to use nutritional yeast instead with great success}, toast a piece of bread and then crumble it up and pour a bit of milk {you can

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I had planned to blog about dinner this evening, but Molly woke up and asked for quesadillas. I figured, why not? So off to google I went for a flour tortilla recipe and came across this lovely number over on AllRecipes.com. I made two changes; I used earth balance instead of the called for lard, and I cut it into 12 pieces instead of 24. I can't imagine how tiny these would be I made 24! So the process went a little something like this: Roll out a tortilla. {Squint hard and pretend it's round.} Put in a medium heat cast iron pan. Set timer to 1 minute 30 seconds. While that

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I’m starting a new 365. Well… more like a couple 52s.

Every Tuesday for the year of 2012 I will cook/bake something new. This week, as part of my pre-52 trial run, I added some dinner rolls to our menu tonight of Lemon Chicken Piccata with rice and sugar snap peas.

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