Pumpkin Snickerdoodle White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Are you guys sick of pumpkin foods yet?  I hope not because I’ve got another good one for you. I had two out of three failed recipes over the weekend.  That’s not good odds.  So what do I do?  I bake cookies.  The failures were probably a blessing in disguise because I need to start baking cookies for the holidays.  Yes, I start this early and freeze them.  I bake dozens and dozens of cookies and baking them ahead of time is really the only way to go (unless you want to bake for 9 days straight… all… day… long… not ideal). …

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Pumpkin Spice Latte

I’m celebrating Halloween week with pumpkin spice lattes and orange nail polish. Can you believe it’s almost Halloween?  It felt like just yesterday that I was in a bathing suit sipping a prickly pear margarita.  Okay, maybe not literally yesterday, but it was vacation and it was hot in Arizona, so it wasn’t so long ago that it could already be Halloween.  Could it? Pumpkin spice latte is THE coffee to have for Fall.  Just ask every doughnut shop in your area how they feel about it.  I happen to love it so I’d do what what any ordinary food blogger would …

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Chipotle Apple Sweet Potato Salad

Doesn’t this sound like the most perfect salad for Fall?! I have a confession to make.  I sort of a have a blog crush on Love and Lemons.  I’m obsessed with their photography and they have amazing recipes, like this one.  Chipotle… apple… sweet potato… salad… I love every word of that.  I could go all Guy Fieri on you and get into the nity gritty of why everything just works here, but who has that kind of time?  😉  Trust me when I say that this plate is an explosion of awesomeness. Can you believe it’s October already?  September …

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Grilled Eggplant and Zucchini Quinoa

No football food for you. I have this thing…  this unintentional need to play into clichés.  For example, if my husband and I are watching a game, then I like to eat game food, even if it’s just the two of us at home in our PJs.  It can totally be a low key thing like frozen pizza from the store and a bottle of Octoberfest.  It can even be healthy snacks that I play off as “healthy football food” (but let’s be real, healthy and football food is not really a thing). I must be slipping because this past …

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Chicken Fajita Pasta

Has the flavor of chicken changed? I had no issues eating chicken when I was a kid.  My dad was (and still is) picky about his chicken, claiming some chicken dishes tasted “too chicken-y.”  My sisters and I used to think that my dad was weird for thinking that. Karma is a kicker.  A few years ago, I was eating some kind of chicken dish and said (to myself or whoever was with me), “Wow, does this chicken taste chicken-y or what?”  (My husband piped up and said it was him that was there to hear that and that he …

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