Author: Tina

Indian Spiced Potato Chips With Garlic Yogurt Dip

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Football season means it’s time to eat lots of unhealthy foods, right?  Sometimes. I’m totally into the whole football scene.  I enjoy watching the games and I’m not just there for the food.  (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)  Give me a pizza and a beer during the game and I’m a happy girl.  It’s so cliché but it’s true. Snacks are a must for game time, too.  All the usual suspects, like nachos, fatty dips and chips, and greasy appetizers are of course awesome but I could take or leave them depending on my mood.  My husband feels the …

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Spicy Sausage And Pasta

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I’m talking about comfort foods 101 today. We all have an idea of what we consider to be our ideal comfort food so I’m not here to convince you that pasta and sauce is the best comfort food ever (even if is  😉 ).  The reality is that you’re probably like me and you have lots of favorite comfort foods, depending on the time of the year, time of day, or your mood at the moment. I’ve made a variety of Italian sauce recipes.  I love having variety, but my absolute favorite sauce is my Marinara Sauce and Italian Meat Sauce.  They are essentially …

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Pumpkin Cheesecake Muffins

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Crumb topping, pumpkin cake, and cheesecake…  Need I say more?  Oh, and it all comes packaged in nifty muffin.  Enough said. I haven’t baked muffins in eons.  There was a period of time when I was baking muffins every weekend.  I think I realized somewhere along the way that a muffin is essentially a cupcake without icing.  Cupcakes aren’t exactly healthy, especially not for breakfast.  Although cupcakes are perfectly healthy for dessert because I figure it’s like a small piece of cake, at least the way I cut cake.  😉 I’ve been dying to bake these Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies so I finally …

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Spaghetti Squash With Chickpeas And Kale

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I’ve been craving pizza lately.  So what else is new? Your eyes are not deceiving you.  There is no pizza going on here today.  Womp womp.  I ate so much food over Labor Day weekend so I thought I’d be really healthy this past weekend.  So I woke up Saturday morning and went to my kickboxing class and then I ate healthy all day, including this delicious spaghetti squash meal. Sunday was a different story.  I stayed in my pajamas all day and ate like crap.  I guess you win some and you lose some.   It’s a good thing that …

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

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These are THE softest and chewiest cookies that I’ve ever made… ever.  That’s saying a lot since I’ve made a bazillion cookies (give or take). Guys, if you make one pumpkin flavored dessert this Fall, this has to be it.  Pumpkin Pie excluded of course.  And pumpkin cheesecake, can’t forget that.  And pumpkin muffins…  Okay, just make pumpkin everything and make these too in the process. I brought these cookies to a family BBQ last weekend.  Does that sound weird to anyone?  Pumpkin… BBQ… that’s not how it normally goes.  Typically we bring pumpkin desserts to Thanksgiving or to a …

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