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It’s Salad for Dinner! Warm Chicken Salad with Roasted Potatoes and Chives

September 4, 2015 By Katrina

It’s Salad for Dinner! Warm Chicken Salad with Roasted Potatoes and Chives

I love a good salad, but salad isn’t usually what comes to mind when I think of comfort food. Or super satisfying food. Or I’m-totes-craving-that food. This salad, though? Oh man, guys. This is the stuff. This warm chicken salad with roasted potatoes and chives has everything you’d want in a meal: fresh ingredients, a…

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Filed Under: Easy Weeknight Dinners, Fresh from the oven, Salads Tagged With: chicken, cooking, dinner, food, Food52, fresh from the oven, lunch, potatoes, roast chicken, rotisserie chicken, salad, side dishes, warm chicken salad

Dinner in a pinch, made to impress! Puff pastry with ham & Gruyère

October 17, 2014 By Katrina

Dinner in a pinch, made to impress! Puff pastry with ham & Gruyère

This time of year is so, so hectic (though we probably always feel like our lives are crazy busy, right?). When I think of an easy fall dinner, I often base its viability on a simple pre-trick-or-treating test. Basically, is it something that could be easily made and quickly served to a family (friends included!)…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Easy Weeknight Dinners, Fresh from the oven, Meat/Eggs, Pizza/Sandwiches Tagged With: appetizers, autumn, baking, brunch, cheese, dinner, easy recipes, fall, fall recipes, food, Gruyere, ham, ham and cheese, ham and Gruyere in puff pastry, lunch, puff pastry, recipes, side dishes, weeknight meal

Out of the rut: Barley risotto with spinach and sweet potatoes

April 5, 2013 By Katrina

Out of the rut: Barley risotto with spinach and sweet potatoes

New baked goods are a regular occurrence in our house, but when it comes to dinner, I get stuck in a rut so fast. Try as I might, I just don’t get as excited about savory dishes as I do about sugar. Or butter. Or whipped cream. You get the idea. I know, I know….

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Filed Under: Easy Weeknight Dinners, Fresh from the oven, Pasta/Rice/Grains, Vegetarian Tagged With: barley, barley risotto, dinner, easy recipes, food, lunch, risotto, side dishes, spinach, sweet potato risotto, sweet potatoes, vegetarian, weeknight meals

Spring, salad and photo shoots

March 15, 2013 By Katrina

Spring, salad and photo shoots

Except for a few sporadic drizzles, it’s been absolutely gorgeous here the past few weeks. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and our puppy and toddler are both filled with more energy than usual. Hooray for spring around the corner! I’m a winter girl through and through, but being a mom makes me…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Life, Pasta/Rice/Grains, Salads, Vegetarian Tagged With: easy recipes, easy salad recipes, family photo, food, fresh from the oven, life, orzo salad, Real Simple, salad, side dishes, spring, spring recipes, tomatoes, vegetarian, zucchini, zucchini orzo salad

Forget the French fries: Salt and vinegar potatoes

March 5, 2013 By Katrina

Forget the French fries: Salt and vinegar potatoes

I love recipes that take a bit of work to put together, the kind that use a ridiculous amount of kitchenware, loads of ingredients and a fair amount of time before they even reach the oven. There’s something so satisfying about all that work, both in the finished dishes you’ve created and the chaos they…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Fresh from the oven, Most Popular, Vegetarian Tagged With: baking, cooking, easy recipes, food, fresh from the oven, potatoes, rice vinegar, roasting, rosemary, salt and vinegar potatoes, side dishes, thyme, vegetarian

Food for a fairy tale: Wheatberry salad

August 24, 2012 By Katrina

Food for a fairy tale: Wheatberry salad

Don’t you just love when an ingredient sounds like it was invented in a fairy tale? Beneath the leaves of an unassuming bramble bush, in a wooded field not far from your backyard, the wild wheatberries lie. They’re the tiniest of berries, no larger than a flea, and none too impressive in appearance, but please…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Pasta/Rice/Grains, Salads, Vegetarian Tagged With: cooking, dinner, food, fresh from the oven, lunch, recipes, salad, side dishes, vegan, vegetarian, wheatberry, wheatberry salad

Fine dining à la home: Mushroom and spinach risotto

June 22, 2012 By Katrina

Fine dining à la home: Mushroom and spinach risotto

In every cook’s internal recipe box, there lies a slew of dishes that will never be made for company. Maybe it’s that casserole from your childhood days with one too many cans of mushroom soup involved or that gooey dessert you microwave in a coffee mug. For us, there are the glorious super burritos, which…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Pasta/Rice/Grains Tagged With: cooking, dinner, entertaining, food, fresh from the oven, lunch, mushrooms, recipes, risotto, side dishes, spinach, spinach and mushroom risotto, The Meatball Shop, vegetarian

A dinner shortcut — so good I feel guilty!

October 19, 2011 By Katrina

A dinner shortcut — so good I feel guilty!

As a fairly regular fixture in the kitchen, I’ve started to somewhat pride myself on the homemade-ness of our little family’s meals, snacks and baked goods. We don’t buy cookies in boxes or muffins from the grocery store. Our freezer is shockingly empty save for a few things I’ve made ahead and frozen for another…

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Filed Under: Easy Weeknight Dinners, Fresh from the oven, Pasta/Rice/Grains Tagged With: cooking, dinner, easy recipes, food, lunch, pasta, Real Simple, recipes, side dishes, vegetarian, zucchini

It’s not easy being cheesy

October 7, 2011 By Katrina

It’s not easy being cheesy

Yes, that is a cheesy title. No, this post is not about Cheetos (too bad, I know; they’re totally my secret guilty pleasure love o’ life). This happy Friday post is, however, about an equally cheese-infused bite that I never in my wildest dreams thought I’d bake and then so joyfully nosh. Today is all…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Muffins/Cakes/Custards Tagged With: baking, biscuits, cheddar, cheese, cheese biscuits, food, Food52, Merrill Stubbs, recipes, side dishes

Pasta + cheese = comfort

October 3, 2011 By Katrina

Pasta + cheese = comfort

Cooking can be a pretty mathematical process sometimes. For the mathletes among us, that’s probably reassuring. Knowing that spaghetti + sauce = dinner is likely just as comforting as knowing that 2 + 2 = 4. Simple cooking truths, just like simple math, are the building blocks of kitchen know-how, and though the real fun…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Pasta/Rice/Grains Tagged With: broccoli, comfort foods, cooking, dinner, food, lunch, macaroni and cheese, pasta, side dishes, vegetarian

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