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Cheeseburger Salad

Cheeseburger Salad

This cheeseburger salad is a great weeknight meal. This is originally taken from the Pioneer Woman and we have updated it slightly to include some of our modifications (which…

Black Forest Cake

Black Forest Cake

This black forest cake uses the Guinness cake as a base and adds in a sweet and tart mixture of cherries and cream.   …

Firecracker Pork Fusilli

Firecracker Pork Fusilli

When we lived in San Francisco, there was a restaurant in the Castro that served a firecracker pork fusilli.  This is our attempt at recreating this dish.  The pork…

Chicken Cacciatore

Chicken Cacciatore

This chicken cacciatore recipe is from Tim’s grandmother.  It is fairly easy to make and is rich in flavor.  This recipe makes quite a bit feel free to cut it …

Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

This is a quick and simple chocolate buttercream frosting.  It is extremely versatile and can be used on cakes, cupcakes, or any type of dessert. …

Overstuffed Chop Chicken Salad Sandwich

Overstuffed Chop Chicken Salad Sandwich

When we lived in Brooklyn, there was a bodega on the corner that made chicken salad sandwiches with deli meat.  You would choose your deli meat, cheese, and toppings which…

Bourbon Ginger Molasses Cookies

Bourbon Ginger Molasses Cookies

These cookies were born out of an invite to a cookie exchange party.  After looking at many different recipes for ginger cookies, we decided to create our own version. …

Maryland Crab Cake

Simple Maryland Crab Cake

This is a recipe for a true Maryland crab cake, in order to have that designation it has to be made with blue crab, have very little to no bread, and have chunks of crab in the cake itself. …

Brownies

Brownies

After looking at many different recipes for brownies and doing a lot of mixing and matching we were able to come up with this versatile fudgy brownie recipe. …

Salsa

Salsa

This is a super simple salsa recipe. We found this on the Midwest Foodie Blog and only made a few adjustments to the spice level and how the instructions were written. Works well…

Tartar Sauce

Tartar Sauce

This is a simple tartar sauce that we came up with using greek yogurt as the main base.  Works great with fish or any other seafood.  If you purchase the single-serve-sized…

Peanut Butter Mousse Pie

Peanut Butter Mousse Pie

We were watching a cooking show a while back and this was a quick segment which was very vague, no measurements or anything like that.  We knew most of the ingredients but …