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Chocolate Berry Cream Pie
In the last six months, I've made quite a collection of melty, gooey, rich chocolaty desserts. But explain to me how somehow, the one dessert that features fruit, not chocolate, gets a standing ovation...
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Cilantro Turkey Burgers with Chipotle Ketchup
What you're looking at is one of the best burgers I've ever had. Now, I know what you're thinking. "But, Rachel! There's no cheese. No bacon. No special sauce. Not even any beef, for goodness sakes!"I...
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Bacon & Chipotle Twice-Baked Potatoes
While I may not have the well traveled taste buds of a true food connoisseur, I like to think I have pretty good taste when it comes to one particular class of cuisine. Bar food. Wings dripping in hot...
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Nathan's Lemon Cake
When one thinks of cake, "refreshing" is probably not the first word that comes to mind. Usually, what makes cake, well, cake, a good drenching in buttery frosting, an uber-sweet filling, and a hefty...
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Loaded Baked Potato Soup
You say potato... I say creamy potato soup loaded with bacon, cheddar and green onion. After the bacon & chipotle twice-baked potatoes left me with a tempting surplus of cheddar, bacon and russets,...
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Crunchy-Chewy Sesame Cookies
If I were allergic to peanuts...(And just let me take this time to thank God that I am in fact not allergic, because a life without Reese's peanut butter cups, chocolate-peanut butter ice cream and...
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Rosemary Chicken Salad
While some kids grew up fearing dusty, cobweb-laden attics filled with looming shadows and stinky mothballs, the attic that I remember paints quite a different image. Aside from being keeper of the...
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Old-Fashioned Strawberry Shortcake
Sometimes I think everything is just better in its old-fashioned form. Old-fashioned phones didn't cause car accidents or stunt teenagers' vocabulary to three-letter words. Old-fashioned clothes...
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Coconut Shrimp with Fiery Mango Sauce & Coconut-Cilantro Rice
Lately, you could say my presence in the blogosphere has been a little MIA. I've gone AWOL. Rogue. But not by my own doing, I assure you. See, I was seduced. The cloudless days. The shimmering pool....
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Lemon Cornmeal Cookies
My name is Rachel and I'm addicted to crunchies.What are crunchies? They're the tidbits of burnt cheese left on the pan after you bake a pizza. The fried-to-a-crisp fries that sneak their way into the...
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Grilled Jalapeño Poppers with Goat Cheese
A fair warning: This recipe is not intended for fickle stomachs, young taste buds or digestive tracks teetering the golden years. That being said…Are you the type to throw back raw chilis and shots of...
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Butter Crunch Lemon-Cheese Bars
As much as I love summer, and all the potlucks, picnics and family reunions that come standard, there’s one thing I believe should be banished forever, as it’s the true bane of bikini season...The...
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Ginger-Peanut Chicken Salad Wraps
As far as I’m concerned, this post could very well be titled “ginger peanut lime sauce.” Because one taste of this sauce – this amazing, Asian-inspired, creamy dreamy sauce – will cause you to forget...
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Fresh Fruit Salad with Honey, Ginger & Lime Sauce
Feel that? That crisp, chilly breeze that’s been swirling around us lately, filling our heads with the hope of golden-leafed, sweater-clad, apple-cinnamon-infused autumn days? Seems everyone is getting...
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Hot Crab Dip
If my husband ever had a reason to be jealous, it wouldn't be because of another man. But dip, now there's something to worry about. See, at some point in my life, I gave my heart to hummus, spinach...
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Chocolate Almond Cherry Crisps
Sometimes, you just want chocolate. But you don’t want to turn on the oven. You don’t want to crack eggs. You don’t want to sift flour...and cocoa...and sugar. And you certainly don't want to tie on an...
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Jamaican Jerk Beef Kebabs
I'll never forget the first time I tried Jamaican food. I was on a date. A very awkward first date.It remember that Tuesday afternoon like it was yesterday. My date and I were making nervous small talk...
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Tomato-Basil Salsa & Fresh Berry Daiquiris
I wish I could tell you that these super summery treats were meant to be posted in chilly October. That it was my purposeful plan to exclusively accommodate the parched Floridians and West Coasters, or...
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A Halloween’s Past
I miss being a kid in the fall.I miss drinking hot apple cider after a long day of leaf jumping in the chilly autumn air. I miss the crepe paper-draped school parties and the pumpkin-shaped sugar...
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Spicy Snack mix
I’m celebrating Halloween with The Secret’s in the Sauce for a chance to win a sweet camera. Today it's all about something we made for Halloween. Enjoy! -----------------------------------------------...
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