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Our Cooking Challenge
About a week before Preston and I closed on our house, we agreed that with a new house and a new kitchen, we wanted to try out new recipes. We’ve both always enjoyed cooking, and when we were first...
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Wasabi Soy Grilled Salmon and Squash
Last week one of Preston’s coworkers offered us a handful of squash and zucchini that he had grown in his garden. Preston immediately took him up on his offer, and when Preston brought them home with...
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Grilled Zucchini and Tomato Salad
When Preston and I started our cooking challenge, we made it our goal to try out at least one new recipe per week. Two weeks ago we actually made two new recipes: the Wasabi Soy Grilled Salmon and...
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Szechuan Chicken with Oriental Noodles
This recipe wasn’t the next one I had originally planned on sharing with all of you this week, but after such an overwhelming response to my posted picture on Instagram, I decided to bump this recipe...
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Sausage and Zucchini Naan Pizza
This is the second naan bread pizza recipe that Preston and I have made. You may have noticed on Instagram a couple of weeks ago that we made our first naan bread pizza, a White Clam one. While it...
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White Clam Naan Pizza
Over the past month, Preston and I have made three different naan pizzas, all of which were inspired by recipes we’ve seen in the Wegman’s Summer Menu magazine. Last week I shared the recipe for a...
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Sweet Chili Sweet Potato Fries
I realized last night that its been almost a month since I last shared a recipe with all of you! My apologies for that, but I’ve also had a lot of running and race news to share with all of … Continue...
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Mussels and Chorizo in a Creamy Tomato Sauce
Last Friday, Preston and I decided to have a date night at home. Back in August when we went to Charlottesville for our anniversary, I had a mussels dish one night, and since then, I’ve been wanting...
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New England Clam Chowder
With the arrival of fall another season has arrived: soup season! I am a huge fan of soups, partly because of their convenience, but the problem with canned soups is that they’re very high in sodium....
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Friday Five – November 7th – Five Ways to Stay on Track During the Holidays
We’re nearing the time of year where staying on track with fitness goals is often difficult. Between family gatherings, holiday parties, and delicious holiday treats, it is often easy to sway away...
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Broccoli Bacon Cheese Soup
Its been quite awhile since I shared a recipe with all of you, let alone tried out a new recipe. Between Thanksgiving, Christmas, traveling, and life just being generally busy, its been difficult to...
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Chili-Pasta Skillet
Its winter and its cold, and thus, I’m usually on the hunt for warm, hearty, make you feel good recipes that will also hold well as leftovers that I can take to work for lunch. One day while I was …...
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Slow Cooker Chicken Marinara with Roasted Vegetables
Like many areas around the country, its still cold here, but now we’ve added snow to the mix. Preston and I spent yesterday morning cooking and food prepping. We made a batch of New England Clam...
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Pork Fried Rice
If you follow me on Instagram then you know that the past two evenings we’ve had Asian dishes for dinner. Preston and I are huge Asian food fans for many reasons. Many dishes are very healthy,...
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Sushi Bowl with Cooked Salmon
Its no secret that Preston and I are huge sushi fans. We love the taste and variety of flavors that eating sushi offers. So when I saw several Pinterest posts about sushi bowls, I knew this was...
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Friday Five – Favorite Summer Food and Recipes
Happy Memorial Day weekend everybody! With this weekend marking the unofficial start to summer, I’m excited that this week’s Friday Five theme with the DC Trifecta is related to summer, as its my...
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Super Easy Gazpacho Recipe
Now that its summer (okay, not officially until June 21st but it definitely feels like summer), its time to make one of my favorite summer recipes: Gazpacho. I grew up eating Gazpacho that my...
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Shrimp and Chorizo Kabobs Recipe
For me, kabobs is one of those recipes that I can’t imagine going an entire summer without making. There’s so many different variations of kabobs that can be made, and one of the great things about...
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Sweet and Sour Meatballs with Peppers and Onions Recipe
This week’s recipe that I’m sharing was another grocery store ad inspiration. I’m not going to lie, I’m all about saving money wherever I can, and try to base most of our weekly grocery shopping...
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Friday Five – Five Comfort Food Recipes
Now that the temperatures outside are really starting to drop and its feeling more like fall everyday, its about time that I break out the slow cooker. I always associate fall with warm, comfort...
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