This bucatini peperonata with toasted rosemary breadcrumbs is the perfect healthy weeeknight dinner. It comes together in under 30 minutes and is full of sweet pan-roasted bell peppers with rosemary breadcrumbs for a little bit of crunchy texture.
bucatini peperonata with toasted rosemary breadcrumbs

What happens when you sit down next to a bag of holiday mint M&M’s while watching the Kardashians on Superbowl Sunday.

Is that you eat them.

Like, so many of them.

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This red velvet cake with white chocolate cream cheese frosting is simple to throw together and decadently delicious.
red velvet cake with white chocolate cream cheese frosting

I’m feeling a little bad for red velvet these days.

Mostly because I swore for the past 26 years that it was going to be my wedding cake and then I up and left it for the first Pistachio Cake with Honey Buttercream Frosting that walked on by.

What! I’m a girl! I’m SUPPOSED to change my mind on a whim!

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These homemade broccoli and American cheese-stuffed mini quiches are the perfect from-scratch Superbowl party appetizer! This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Cooper Cheese for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
broccoli cheese mini quiches

You should probably back away from the refrigerator.

Oh, don’t think I didn’t see you rummaging around in your freezer making sure you had one of those weirdo artificial-ingredient-nightmare boxes of frozen appetizers in there for the Big Day this Sunday.

We are not (and I say that with a capital N-O-T) going the prepackaged route this Superbowl Weekend.

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appetizer lunch at the smith

1. You guys need to remind me that from now on, I probably want to only order off the appetizer menu when I go out to eat. That’s where all the fun stuff lives. Like, for instance, the artichoke chili flatbread and cheddar cheese SMOTHERED tomato soup seen above that I got when I went to The Smith with Heather, Bea, and Susan last week.

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For a soup that will warm you up, wake up your taste buds with it’s kick of peppery flavor, and keep you full for hours, this nine vegetable hot and sour soup just can’t be beat!
nine vegetable hot and sour soup

Code red, I repeat, CODE RED.

We have a soup identity crisis on our hands.

Of the worst(/best) kind.

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This Moroccan roasted vegetable pilaf with chickpeas is rich in warm flavors and some of the season’s best roasted root vegetables – it makes for a great ethnically inspired meal.

moroccan roasted vegetable pilaf with chickpeas

We need to get out of here.

Yesterday the distance I ran on my long run was approximately the same/possibly more than the “feels like” temperature outside.

And I refuse to accept it. Complacency is not my biggest virtue.

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