Food

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    Tai Pei Microwave Meals Ranked

    If you are anything like us, you have really missed eating out. It’s not just the taste, or the ambience; it can sometimes just be the time saving convenience of not having to make something yourself. (not to mention all the clean up!) Specifically this week I had a hankering for some Chinese food and missed being patrons of our local establishment. Husband to the rescue! While perusing our local grocery store, my husband noticed a big sale on Tai Pei Frozen Microwave meals. Rather than prepare our own macaroni salad for lunch, he picked up a couple for us to try to get a taste of what we had…

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    Ooey Gooey Yummy Black Bean Brownies

    One thing I keep seeing pop up on my feed has been variations of black bean or zucchini brownies. Before the quarantines started my friend had a bake-off at work and the winner was actually black bean brownies. Knowing how delicious my friend’s treats were, and knowing that these could have overtook hers, I had to try them for myself. Since I was unable to get my hands on the recipe of the winner, I did a quick search through the recipes that I found online and they all seemed to point back to a blog, Chocolate Covered Katie. I found her particular recipe had almost 1500 reviews and a…

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    Simple Crusty Bread

    One of our family’s favorite things to do, especially with the little one is to make homemade bread. Especially in the winter months, we make this often, almost once a week. There are lots of different recipes out there, but really there is only one that we keep coming back to, over and over again. Despite the little one’s measuring and meddling, it never seems to fail to come out. At a time when everything seems complicated the recipe couldn’t be easier: 1 packet of .25 oz Yeast (We recommend Fleischmann’s Rapid Rise Instant Yeast) 2.5 cups of water, 120 degrees warm A literal pinch of brown sugar 5 cups…