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How to make Fiscalini Cheese Risotto Stuffed Butternut Squash

Why is it that food we cook in the Fall tends to smell better than food we cook at any other time of the year? Fall has just begun, but those peanut butter pumpkin brownies smelled so scrumptious two days ago and the butternut squash I roasted today smelled so freakin‘ fantastic. The smell even woke Kyle up, …

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Caramelized Onion and Corn Quinoa: simple, healthy dinner

I think I am finally getting better at this ‘maintaining a healthy lifestyle’ thing. I no longer drive past Sonic drooling over coconut cream pie slushes, I no longer crave the double decker taco at Taco Bell, and I can finally have chocolate chips in the pantry without eating them all in one sitting (no really, a whole bag, it’s happened). …

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How to make BBQ Chicken stuffed in a loaded baked Sweet Potato

So it’s that time of the year. TX/OU weekend. It’s when the crazy Oklahomans come down to Dallas for the Red River Shootout (a.k.a. when University of Texas plays Oklahoma University.) Close to 100,000 people attend the game at the ‘Cotton Bowl’ (which is located in Fair Park, remember when I went there recently for the State Fair?) which is just a few miles …

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