Challah Bread

Holla for Challah! Challah Bread is uh-mazing.  Let’s see…  It’s a bread, it’s a tad sweet, and it looks gorgeous.  Yeah, it’s just freaking amazing. I have to admit that my husband and I had ulterior motives for making Challah.  It’s a secret… until you see it Friday’s post.  Any guesses?  Until then, don’d mind me if I take a slice or two and smear some butter on it.  Mmm carbs.  Mmm butter.  Heaven. My husband has made a lovely 3 strand braid Cardamom Bread.  In fact, he’s made it more times than I can count.  Challah bread usually comes in …

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National Parks and Canyons Vacation

Yo, yo, yo!  I’m back from vacation.  Did you miss me?  My husband and I went on a road trip out west to visit some of the national parks and canyons.  When I say road trip, I mean we did a lot of driving… 1,923 miles to be exact.  We had an amazing time and of course I’m sharing what we did.  This was a lot like our other road trips except we had to fly to the starting point this time.  It worked out way better than driving to the starting point. We flew into Las Vegas, Nevada and stayed …

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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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