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Impromptu Family Dinner with CAVA

I think I've mentioned once or twice on here that every week—Wednesday for us—I have a family dinner night with my mom and sisters. They'll come over and I'll make dinner and we all just catch up on the past week. It's a great way to spend some much needed quality time with the women that raised me, and I look forward to it every week. I highly recommend that everyone give it a shot for yourselves. It doesn't have to be every single week like with my family, but maybe once every other week or ...

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Chicken Meatball Tikka Masala

As someone who is constantly and consistently surrounded by food day in and day out, I often get asked what my favorite dish is, or what's the cuisine I can't live without? I've always hated answering this question because it's one of life's hardest questions to answer; Spoiler Alert: I don't think I can ever truthfully answer. It's very hard to pinpoint one dish or cuisine to call my all-time favorite because I happen to have an ongoing love affair with food. I don't want to say that everything ...

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Cheers to the Weekend: Roasted Sheet Pan Lomo Saltado

It's time for another installment of my favorite ongoing series on the blog, Cheers to the Weekend! A) because it's the weekend (finally) and B) because it's been a while since the last one went up and that just won't do. It's also time for another much needed sheet pan dinner recipe. If you recall, some of the other sheet pan wonders have been this very first Mediterranean chicken thigh situation, this sausage and peppers number and let us not forget that yes, you most definitely can make ...

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The Classics: Loaded Beef Nachos

I love me some nachos. I’ll rephrase that though and say that I love me some really good nachos. You might think I don’t have much to say about the subject—because how much can a person really talk about chips loaded with cheese and topped with everything—but you’d be surprised. I have many opinions when it comes to this dish. I’d like to think they are very valid opinions, mostly about what it takes to make a really good nacho. There are multiple components that must be checked off in order to ...

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Breakfasts To Start Your Day

Shakshuka Bread Bowls

I just recently got into making (and eating) shakshuka. I’ve been seeing it all over the internets and social medias for a while now, and definitely all of last year, and yet I never tried it because I’m the type of person that goes against the things that seem like they’re being pushed down my…

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The Classics: Sour Cream Coffee Cake

My thought is that you can never have too many coffee cake recipes. It’s that ultimate breakfast cake that you can get away with eating first thing in the morning. It always reminds me of elementary school. Getting a giant square slice of crumb cake with a carton of milk. It’s what dreams are made…

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BLT Eggs Benedict

BLT Eggs Benedict is what you get when you want brunch but also lunch, which is basically what brunch is I guess, but still, you know what I mean. It’s when you want a sandwich, but an open-faced sandwich. When you can’t decide between a Breakfast BLT or eggs benedict first thing in the morning….

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Sausage Egg and Cheese English Muffins

When I was a kid, I would BEG my mother for a sausage egg mcmuffin (from you know where) because they were, and I’m sure still are if we’re honest with ourselves, very delicious. Every now and then she’d give in and let me have one and I swear I never wanted it to end….

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Cuban Sandwich Dutch Baby

Forget everything you think you know about Dutch Babies and throw it out the window. You won’t need it here. This isn’t your ordinary Dutch Baby. A large sweet pancake topped with berries and sweetened cream is nowhere to be found today. That’s because I’ve turned the classic Dutch Baby on it’s head and converted…

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Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches

I’m creeping out from my spot under the air conditioning, where I’ve been camping out for the good part of the past couple of weeks. It’s been extremely hot in Los Angeles, and I’m sure it’s hot everywhere else, but for us Angelenos we are melting away into nothing. The only way I think we…

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Chocolate Oatmeal Cookie S’mores

Homemade chewy oatmeal cookies—sans raisins and with chocolate chips instead because I’m no monster—are one hundred times better when they’re sandwiched together with a heaping amount of Nutella and toasted marshmallows. I couldn’t let another 4th of July go by without making sure I got you covered in the dessert department. These Chocolate Oatmeal Cookie…

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Cheers to the Weekend: Toasted Meringue Banana Pudding

Banana pudding is one of those desserts that I will never tire of. It’s nostalgic, incredibly easy to make and yet it still manages to be a show-stopping dessert that takes people’s breath away (or at least mine). Over the years, I’ve shared a few banana pudding inspired recipes on the blog, and I hold…

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Banana Bread Biscotti

I’m very particular when it comes to eating a banana. They have to be bright yellow with a little green still at the top, but absolutely no black spots at all. I can’t eat a banana once it has begun to ripen, not even in the slightest because their sweetness is just too much by…

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Fluffernutter Cookie Bars

I ate a lot of fluffernutters as a kid—almost an alarming amount—and so I like to consider myself a fluffernutter connoisseur of sorts. It was my mom’s favorite thing to make me because it literally requires no baking whatsoever, and if you’ve been following along for a while you’ll know that my mom isn’t a…

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Torta della Nonna

So I’m still on this Italian kick, and I can’t seem to shake it off. Last week I shared a recipe for a classic and simple Tiramisu, and if you read that post and felt like you just needed some more traditional Italian treats in your life, then you’re in luck. In that post I also…

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Let’s Cheers to the Weekend!

Cheers to the Weekend: One Skillet Cuban Chicken and Rice

Do you know how sometimes you just really don’t feel like washing dishes? Mostly because you’ve been working all day, but also because you’ve just slaved away for hours cooking dinner, and so the last thing you want to do is stand in front of the sink scrubbing away at the mess you just made….

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Cheers to the Weekend: Caramel Apple Slab Pie

The last slab pie I made on the blog, S’mores Slab Pie, was such a big hit that I decided I needed to try my hand on another variation. It just had to be done (but I’m most definitely not complaining about it). If there’s one thing I’ve learned through the years of blogging, it’s…

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Cheers to the Weekend: Cinnamon Roll Coffee Cake

I’m always so adamant and a firm believer that we all need a weekend cooking and/or baking project that’s a bit more labor intensive. Something that we wouldn’t really try during the week because we don’t have the time or patience after a long day’s work. The weekend is for trying out those new recipes…

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Cheers to the Weekend: No-Bake Orange Creamsicle Bars

One of my mamma’s all time favorite treats has been, and will always be a fifty-fifty bar, or as some of you might know it as an orange creamsicle. It’s basically a vanilla ice cream popsicle center with an orange ice cream covering it. Hence a 50/50 popsicle. My sisters and I had them a…

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Cheers to the Weekend: Mini S’mores Galettes

Do you know how sometimes your eyes are bigger than your stomach? You just buy a bunch of stuff at the grocery store because you think to yourself, “Oh I’m totally going to eat all of this. In one sitting no less.” Then when it comes time to show off your all you can eat…

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Cheers to the Weekend: S’mores Slab Pie

The way I look at it, the sole purpose of making a slab pie is to either A). feed a crowd or B). have an excuse to eat a giant pie all by yourself. Let’s be honest though, If I was given the option, I would definitely choose the latter because when it comes to…

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