The flavors of the Mediterranean come together in this chickpea nicoise salad – a vegetarian take on the French classic!

Disclosure: This post was sponsored by Pompeian. As always, my thoughts and opinions are my own. Thank you for supporting the brands that keep me inspired in the kitchen.
chickpea nicoise salad

This salad makes me want to be a better person.

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1. BREAKING NEWS: the mouse is STILL AT LARGE. I repeat, the mouse is STILL AT LARGE. Please stand by for further instructions.

2. To be honest, I’m not really sure if I’m more scared to come home and find the mouse dead…or not. I’m really going to have mixed feelings about this.

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Waking up to a warm breakfast isn’t hard to do when this baked raspberry oatmeal is on the menu! You can make it the night before and then reheat the next morning, served with a drizzle of brown butter.
baked raspberry oatmeal with brown butter drizzle

To think, I thought I would have nothing to write about today.

Then a mouse scurried across my apartment floor IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.

And now you get to hear about my vermin woes.

So lucky, you are.

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Spicy Thai curry and sweet winter squash pair together perfectly in this Thai tofu, butternut squash, and eggplant soup that will warm your belly from the inside out.
thai tofu, butternut squash, and eggplant soup

The.Boy and I have instituted a mandatory Friday date night.

Which really means that I try to push him out the door before he has a chance to change out of his work clothes, while he moans and groans the entire time about why he can’t just wear his basketball shorts everywhere.

If it were up to him, we would probably eat peanut butter and jelly every night and never leave our apartment.

Except to go out and purchase more peanut butter and jelly.

And that’s just really not my jam.

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Spiders aren’t scary when they’re chocolate peanut butter flavored! These scotcheroo spiders are a fun Halloween treat that will give smiles instead of scares.

Disclosure: As a Become a Better Baker Blog Ambassador, this post was sponsored by ACH Foods. As always, my thoughts and opinions are my own. Thank you so much for supporting the brands that keep me inspired in the kitchen!
scotcheroo spiders

That time I spent an entire morning whispering sweet nothings to a clan of spiders on my kitchen table.

Someone should probably take my temperature.

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Start your day with a little bit of excitement when these brown butter pumpkin chai waffles are on the menu! Full of vitamin A and warm spices they taste like every fall morning should.

Disclosure: This post was sponsored by Silk. As always, my thoughts and opinions are my own. Thank you for supporting the brands that keep me inspired in the kitchen!
brown butter pumpkin chai waffles

There are two more days left in this workweek and by golly are we going to power breakfast our way through them.

And by power breakfast, I mean pumpkin breakfast.

Because SAME THING.

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