Tortilla Soup

Tortilla Soup

  Recipe Updated May 8, 2017 Soup Soup Soup Soup is something I make quite often during the fall and winter months, but this likely would be hard to guess about me given I don’t post about soup very often. The last soup I shared was pumpkin soup, and that was easy to associate with our Halloween and Thanksgiving traditions, but the truth is, I think I’ve avoided posting about soup because there’s a significant reason why I...

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Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cookies

This week has been a really busy week so I’m going to keep this post short and sweet. When I first started my food blog, it was really a vehicle for me to archive our family’s recipes and create a life journal of sorts for my Bebe to one day enjoy. Out of my curiosity for good food, I joined a food blog community and I met a few really great people that I’ve mentioned on my blog in the past. One of my favorite food blogs is...

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Dried Cranberry & Yogurt Chip Cookies

Dried Cranberry & Yogurt Chip Cookies

This recipe post is related to my chocolate chip cookie post in that it uses the same Ghiradelli cookie dough recipe. I just substituted chocolate chips with dried cranberries and yogurt chips. Chocolate chips are occassionally processed on equipment which also processes peanuts or other tree nuts and I thought that using yogurt chips (which the label indicated were not processed on equipment associated with peanuts) would be a good alternative...

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Almond Jello for My Valentine

Almond Jello for My Valentine

This year, Valentine’s Day was quite fun as Bebe E and I enjoyed a number of arts and crafts together. We decorated the house with little paper hearts. Then she made mommy a Valentine’s Day card. Yes, I helped by tying two pieces of red card stock together with ribbon, making little cut-outs and buying some supplies at Michael’s half-off (yay!). I also helped to stamp the balloon images so that the ink would show up, but the...

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