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A review of the 6 Quart Premium Cosori Pressure Cooker, and a delicious, easy, and quick recipe for Chicken Adobo in a pressure cooker, plus, a giveaway!

6 Quart Cosori Pressure Cooker Review & Chicken Adobo Recipe

I was sent a Cosori Premium 6 quart Pressure Cooker to review, and compensated for my time, but all opinions in this piece are my own. THE WINNER…

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Blue Ribbon Apple Pie

Apple Pie Recipe and the Winner of the Pie Crust Showdown

What if you knew you had a recipe for homemade apple pie that was totally excellent? A recipe that produced an apple pie that was perfect in its…

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Apple-Pear Salad with Maple Pecan Bacon and Cranberry Vinaigrette is the perfect salad or side to serve at Thanksgiving.

Apple-Pear Salad with Maple Pecan Bacon

This Apple-Pear Salad with Maple Pecan Bacon is the perfect salad for Thanksgiving. Apples, pears, grapes, salad greens, with Maple Pecan Bacon,…

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The closeup of the plate of enchiladas.

Best Ever Venison Enchiladas

Best Ever Venison Enchiladas are called that  simply because they ARE the best ever meat enchiladas I've ever had. I've had enchiladas made by…

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Best Roast Chicken in a Cast Iron Skillet has many innovative ideas, that take a simple Roast Chicken from Good, to GREAT. #chicken #roastchicken #oven #castiron

Best Roast Chicken Recipe

My Best Roast Chicken Recipe in a Cast Iron Skillet has several innovative ideas, that take a perfectly good roast chicken to the realm of…

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Women's KENZIE Vineyard Dream Apron

Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals on Flirty Aprons

  Before Thanksgiving, I had the opportunity to order the apron of my choice from Flirty Aprons, a company that makes adorable aprons that I…

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BLT Quiche

BLT Quiche: Bacon, Leek and Tomato Quiche

When Cabot Cheese told me they were partnering with King Arthur Flour in a #QuicheFeast, I knew I had to be a part, and what happened next was a BLT…

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Bourbon Pumpkin Cheesecake with Bourbon Sour Cream Glaze

Bourbon Pumpkin Cheesecake with Bourbon Sour Cream Glaze

This recipe for Bourbon Pumpkin Cheesecake with Bourbon Sour Cream Glaze is one of the most amazing Thanksgiving Desserts you'll ever…

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Buttermilk Biscuits with Chives and Black Pepper take a humble pot of soup, and turn it into a special meal. #biscuits #buttermilk #easy #homemade #fromscratch

Buttermilk Biscuits with Chives and Black Pepper

Buttermilk Biscuits with Chives and Black Pepper require no more skill to make than regular homemade biscuits. If you've never made biscuits before,…

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This fall recipe for roasted butternut squash with pine nuts, sage, and browned butter is the perfect comfort food for a cozy autumn evening.

Butternut Squash Pasta with Pine Nuts, Sage, and Browned Butter

This recipe for Pasta with Roasted Butternut Squash, Pine Nuts, Sage, and Browned Butter is the perfect comfort food for a cozy autumn evening. The…

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Caponata & Baguette

Caponata: A Delicious Appetizer You Can Make in Advance

Caponata is a traditional Italian appetizer you can make in advance of any event you're having. It is made of eggplant and lots of other summer…

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Upside-Down Caramelized Pear Tart Made in a Cast Iron Skillet

Caramelized Upside-Down Pear Tart

This recipe for Caramelized Upside-Down Pear Tart is as delicious as it is gorgeous to look at! It's a bit of a show-stopper, and the perfect dessert…

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Chop Chop Fun Cooking Magazine for Kids and a Cabot Cheese Giveaway

Chop Chop Magazine and Cabot Cheese Giveaway

You're here for the cheese giveaway, right? Mmmhmm. That's what I thought. Well, BEFORE I tell you how to enter to win said cheese, let me give…

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Seated in my Cool-Jams. Look at that menopausal glow!

Cool-jams for My Smokin’ Hot Bod

I'm in love with my new Cool-jams night gown. And I don't care who knows it. And clearly, I'm kidding about the smokin' hot bod. It's more like…

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What to do with leftover turkey: Creamy Smoked Turkey and Wild Rice Soup #leftoverturkey #turkeysoup #Thanksgiving

Creamy Smoked Turkey & Wild Rice Soup Recipe

Wondering what to do with leftover turkey? Creamy Smoked Turkey and Wild Rice Soup is just the ticket. It will help you make good DELICIOUS use of…

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Crispy Chewy Oatmeal Walnut Cookies #backtoschool #cookies #oatmeal #crispy #chewy #walnut #Bosch

Crispy Chewy Oatmeal Walnut Cookies

Make going back to school a little happier with this recipe for Crispy, Chewy Oatmeal Walnut Cookies! They're made with ingredients you probably have…

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Hit Play: Talk to Your Doctor About Treatment Options for Your Hip and Knee Pain

Don’t Be Stuck on “Pause”: Hit “Play” On Your Life

This post was sponsored by DePuy Synthes as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central, however all opinions expressed in my post…

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The Noble German Shepherd

Earn Amazon Gift Codes as an Honorary Advisor to Hills

This is a sponsored post. I received a promotional item as a thank you for participating.  I've had 5 dogs, in my lifetime. I cannot…

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A pot of Easy Cilantro Lime Rice with Cardamom Seeds

Easy Cilantro Lime Rice with Cardamom Seeds

I often serve rice as a side dish, but this recipe for Easy Cilantro Lime Rice with Cardamom Seeds is a real game changer for me. With just a couple…

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Easy Cranberry Orange Apple Walnut Relish is the easiest, quickest recipe you'll make for Thanksgiving or Christmas, but it's so delicious that it will become a family tradition.

Easy Cranberry-Orange-Apple-Walnut Relish

Refreshing and palate-pleasing, a bite of Easy Cranberry Orange Apple Walnut Relish is the divine soulmate to a bite of turkey. It's also the perfect…

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Five Ingredient Maple Dijon Chicken: Easy and Delicious

Five Ingredient Maple Dijon Chicken  is an easy and delicious weeknight recipe you can throw together in a flash.  What is a Desperation…

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Cold/Flu Season calls for Flu-Fighter Soup: Chicken Soup with Greens and Garlic.

Flu-Fighter Soup: Chicken Soup with Greens and Garlic

When cold and flu season strikes, Flu-Fighter Soup, Chicken Soup with Greens and Garlic will help you become a Flu-Fighter, by boosting your immune…

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Foodies Can Earn Amazon Gift Codes by Sharing Their Opinions

    This is a sponsored post. I received a promotional item as a thank you for participating. Do you love to share your thoughts…

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Fresh Apple and Toasted Walnut Cake with Warm Apple Cider and Brandy Sauce #recipe #fall #fallrecipe #falldessert #apple #applecake

Fresh Apple and Toasted Walnut Cake with Warm Apple Cider and Brandy Sauce

How about a dessert that celebrates the goodness of the fall harvest? This Fresh Apple Toasted Walnut Cake is so delicious it had me dreaming about…

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A Thanksgiving appetizer that's quick, easy, beautiful, and amazingly delicious! Goat Cheese with Sun-Dried Tomatoes, Garlic, and Rosemary on Crostini. Perfect for Christmas parties, too! #Thanksgiving #appetizer #holiday #cheese #chevre #goatcheese #cheeseball

Goat Cheese with Sun-Dried Tomatoes Holiday Appetizer 

This appetizer recipe for Goat Cheese with Sun-Dried Tomatoes is easy, creamy, tangy, crunchy, and goes great with a nice glass of wine. It's the…

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Just like Grandma used to make. More or less. Stove top, Southern Green Beans and Potatoes. #southern #potlikker #greenbeans #newpotatoes #potatoes

Green Beans and Potatoes

Made on the stove top, and Southern to their tips, this recipe for Green Beans and New Potatoes is just like Grandma used to make! (More or less.) In…

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Heavenly Havarti and Black Forest Ham with Apple Butter, and Aioli

Heavenly Havarti and Black Forest Ham Sandwich with Apple Butter, Aioli, and Arugula. It's melted cheese with ham...yes...but it's so much…

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Homemade Crescent Rolls are perfect for your holiday table.

Homemade Sesame Seed Crescent Rolls

 Homemade Sesame Seed Crescent Rolls will steal the show on your Holiday Table, be it Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Graduation, or any day…

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Honey Brined Grilled Turkey with Giblet Cream Gravy

This turkey recipe is a hybrid of a couple of recipes I collected at epicurious.com. They have a world of good turkey advice over there, so if you…

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Board Dressing for Steaks: Board Dressing for Steaks is an innovative way to serve steak. The grilled meat is enhanced by a dressing you prepare for it, right on the cutting board.

How to Make Board Dressing for Steaks

When I was a little girl, my Dad grilled steaks on Saturday nights in the summertime, and as I recall, those steaks always carried with them the…

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How to Make Creamy Homemade Polenta in a Pressure Cooker #creamy #cheesy #recipe #polenta #homemade #pressurecooker

How to Make Creamy Homemade Polenta in a Pressure Cooker

I've learned how to make creamy homemade polenta in my pressure cooker/multi-cooker, (for some of you, that's an Instant Pot) and I will never go…

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Easy Recipe for How to Make Homemade Chicken Stock or Broth

How to Make Homemade Chicken Stock

Chicken stock is one of those almost ubiquitous ingredients that efficient home cooks keep in stock (pardon my homonym). Smart cooks buy it by the…

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A first taste of the beautiful juice.

How To Make Homemade Wine with Video

How We Learned to Make Homemade Wine Has it ever crossed your mind to wonder how to make homemade wine? To be honest, it never crossed my mind,…

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How To Make Old-Fashioned Pecan Pie

How to Make Old-Fashioned Pecan Pie

This easy, southern, homemade, Old-Fashioned Pecan Pie Recipe is just like my mom, the best pie maker I ever knew, used to make. She taught me a…

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The lightest, fluffiest pumpkin pie you'll ever have, perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas! #easy #homemade #fromscratch #pumpkin #pumpkinpie

How to Make the Fluffiest Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin pie is typically dense, and heavy, but in this post, I'm going to teach you how to make the lightest, fluffiest pumpkin pie, ever. When I…

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How to Smoke Your Holiday Turkey…or…Deck the Hawrs with Boughs of Hawry

Last year, I gave you my recipe for how to cook your Thanksgiving Turkey. I went back and revisited that recipe, and I think I SHOULD give you a bit…

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kale, mushrooms, bacon, polenta

Kale, Mushrooms and Bacon over Grilled Polenta

This recipe for Kale, Mushrooms & Bacon Over Grilled Polenta not only offers a delicious way to serve kale, it also shows you how to make polenta…

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Mimosa Fried Chicken Biscuits with Sriracha Slaw an Sweet Potato Butter are the perfect meal to serve during a football game, perhaps with a glass of your favorite Highland Brewing Beer.

Mimosa Fried Chicken Biscuits with Sweet Potato Butter and Sriracha Slaw

There is a story behind this recipe for Mimosa Fried Chicken Biscuits, and it all started on my recent trip to  Asheville, NC . The…

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Morton Salt Next Door Chef Event Nashville

Morton Salt’s Next Door Chef: Nashville Event

This post was sponsored by Morton's Salt as part of  their Morton's Salt Next Door Chef Campaign.  All opinions are, of course, my…

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My Family’s Favorite Dish Video

Ever wondered what the actual voice of the writer sounds like? Here's a video that my friend Richard Chisum shot of our family, and of me, preparing…

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Rick and Alison at overlook

New Beginnings and Love that Endures

Back a few months ago, I wrote a post about one of the highlights of my summer: getting to attend my girlfriend, Alison's, wedding, and how I found…

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Sprinkling in the the Parmigiano Reggiano.

Nicole Kidman’s Pasta

Nicole Kidman's Pasta is a pasta that is unlike any other pasta dish I'd ever had before. It is a vegetarian dish: a pasta that is FRIED to a crispy…

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Off the Record Nashville

Off the Record Nashville: Fashion, Music, and Feeding the Hungry

This is the story of how I ended up going to the fanciest party I've ever been to. It was a fund raiser for Second Harvest of Middle TN, and a live…

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Snickerdoodles cooling on a rack

Old Fashioned Snickerdoodles

Sometimes, you NEED a comforting, meltingly delicious cookie, and there's just not much better, at such a time, as Good Old Fashioned Snickerdoodles.…

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Pasta Carbonara

Pasta Carbonara with Homemade Bread Crumbs

People often ask me for suggestions for meals that are quick, easy, delicious, and frugal, and Pasta Carbonara with Homemade Bread Crumbs is just…

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Pasta Perciatelli

Perciatelli all’Amatriciana: Best Pasta EVER

Perciatelli all'Amatriciana is the best pasta I have ever had in my life. BUT: I can hear you now, from clear over here, in the Boonies. A whole lot…

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Pumpkin Soup with Apple Cranberry Relish and Spicy Pepitas

Pumpkin Soup with Apple-Cranberry Relish and Spicy Pepitas

Pumpkin Soup with Apple Cranberry Relish, and Spicy Pepitas is a delicious recipe for fall or winter - especially for when your soul needs a little…

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Aunt Rene

Random Acts of Kindness for Caregivers

This is a sponsored post on behalf of Element Associates and Midlife Boulevard.    This is a picture of my wonderful Aunt Rene. She…

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Carnivor

Red Wines for Hearty Fall Meals

Those of you who’ve followed my blog for years will be familiar with my guest poster today. I am thankful to count Denny Jiosa, world class jazz…

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Roasted Butternut Squash and Leek Ricotta Béchamel Lasagna

Roasted Butternut Squash, Leek and Ricotta Lasagna with Pine Nuts

Roasted Butternut Squash, Leek, and Ricotta Lasagna with Pine Nuts is the best thing I've ever done with those butternut squashes that show up in our…

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Roasted Chicken Apple Sausages with Grapes

Roasted Chicken Apple Sausages with Grapes is a perfect fall recipe. Grapes come in season in fall, and this recipe uses those sweet grapes that in a…

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BEEFoundation & Lodge Cast Iron Seasoned & Seared Fundraiser

Seasoned & Seared: a Fundraiser for the BEEFoundation

A few days ago, I had the honor to attend a special evening entitled Seasoned and Seared, that served as a fundraiser for the BEEFoundation. The…

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Maple Thyme Glazed Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Seven Smart Tips for Roasted Sweet Potatoes

This post contains Seven Smart Tips for Roasted Sweet Potatoes, and the end result is Maple Thyme Glazed Roasted Sweet Potatoes. This type of recipe…

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Slow Cooker Apple Butter with biscuits!

Slow Cooker Apple Butter

This recipe for Slow Cooker Apple Butter is super easy to make, and unbelievably delicious!!! When September arrives, I am so impatient for…

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This easy crock pot recipe for Old Fashioned Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings produces dumplings that are light as a feather, in a rich and savory broth. And you get to brag that you made it from scratch!

Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings

This easy crock pot recipe for Old Fashioned Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings produces dumplings that are light as a feather, in a rich and savory…

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Smoky Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup #chicken #tortillasoup #soup #slowcooker #comfortfood

Slow Cooker Tortilla Soup

Slow Cooker Tortilla Soup, ladled over the tortilla chips, and garnished with queso fresco and cilantro, is amazing! A. Ma. Zing. This easy slow…

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Lentil Soup with Kielbasa is the perfect comfort food for a chilly fall or winter evening.

Soup for a Chilly Fall Evening: Lentil Soup with Kielbasa

Lentil Soup with Kielbasa is the perfect soup to warm up your heart, soul, and tummy on a chilly fall or winter evening. And it's easy,…

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The best Spaghetti and Meatball recipe ever, where the meat in the meatball, is venison.

Spaghetti and Venison Meatballs

The Venison Meatballs from this recipe of homemade Italian Spaghetti and Venison Meatballs are so delicious they're addictive. Once you've…

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Easy, Homemade Spiced Pumpkin Bread with Walnuts #pumpkin #pumpkinbread #walnuts #fallrecipe #recipe #homemade

Spiced Pumpkin Bread Recipe

This easy recipe for Spiced Pumpkin Bread has all the beautiful smells of the fall baking season! As the days grow shorter, and the nights grow…

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The fall dessert that *had* to happen: the UK's cherished childhood dessert, Sticky Toffee Pudding, meets the USA's pumpkin in the most luscious pumpkin dessert you'll ever have. The toffee sauce alone is enough to make the angels sing! #Thanksgivingdessert #falldessert #Thanksgivingrecipe #pumpkin #pumpkindessert

Sticky Toffee Pumpkin Pudding

This is the recipe that was waiting to happen: Sticky Toffee Pumpkin Pudding. It almost had to happen. It was destined to happen. What is…

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The Perfect Meat Sauce: Venison Bolognese

The Best Meat Sauce for Spaghetti: Venison Bolognese

This recipe for Venison Bolognese is so rich and full of flavor! You'll definitely be lining up for seconds. It's different than my Mama's meat…

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The Best Way to Smoke a Turkey: a platter full of proof.

The Best Way to Smoke a Turkey

Finally, I've figured out the best way to smoke a turkey, and I'm going to share all my tips and secrets with you. It's taken me a lot of…

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Tuscan Bread Stuffing with Goat Cheese,

Tuscan Bread Stuffing with Goat Cheese, Dried Cherries and Prosciutto

Tuscan Bread Stuffing with Goat Cheese, Dried Cherries and Prosciutto is, for me, the highlight of my Thanksgiving table, where I only serve the best…

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Tuscan Bread Stuffing with Prosciutto, Goat Cheese and Dried Cherries

First, a cautionary, heads up kind of word: If your turkey is frozen, you're going to want to go ahead and start thawing that thing. I usually start…

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Wild Turkey Tenders with Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce on a bed of arugula.

Wild Turkey Tenders with Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce

Wild Turkey Tenders with Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce are good enough to cause you to crave them, once you've tried them. And they're so easy, you can…

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