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Congratulations! Your life just became inexplicably better. I have a lot of recipes. Lots. (Look! They’re well-organized now!) I have spent hundreds and hundreds of hours researching, testing, photographing, and typing recipes and, needless to say, a lot of work goes into my recipes. I love every single one of my recipes. Every. single. one. [...]

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Dear everyone, I am launching a large-scale petition to make spring break a month longer. You should be receiving an email shortly. I’m not going to lie… I could totally get used to this not having eight hours everyday of this legally mandated school thing. I believe they call it an education.  Ugh*. Personal betterment. You [...]

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Dear woman with your girl scout daughters selling cookies (not nearly as good as these homemade healthy Samoas, FYI) outside the grocery store, Obviously you don’t have older daughters, because you clearly don’t know how to handle teenagers. Or adults. Or customers. Or people in general. I get it. You want your kid to win [...]

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Uh huh. Go ahead and try to pass up these homemade healthy trefoils. Believe me, I love the Girl Scouts! I’m not trying to steal their thunder. And if I didn’t love the Girl Scouts, would I have drawn up this nifty timeline? I think not. Life as it Relates to Girl Scout Cookies Majority [...]

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There will be no flying pigs here today. Only healthy mozzarella sticks. You have my word. Now I’m not going to lie, fried cheese is kind of up my ally. My seven-year old self is even nodding in profuse agreement. Cheese. Breading. Cheese. Greasy goodness. Cheese. It’s gluttony at its finest and it’s fantastic. I’ll [...]

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I have multiple healthy three musketeers in my belly. Nobody pinch me. I’m currently lying in a tranquil field of petunias, the gentle breeze caressing my cheek, with a healthy three musketeers bar in each hand as I watch this gorgeous unicorn trot down a rainbow toward the pot of gold. I’m not waking up [...]

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Good Lord. What’s happening to me? Sun dried tomato pesto? Really? Where are the COOKIES? This is an excellent question, my friend, and you obviously have your priorities straight. However, I know sun dried tomato pesto is not a cupcake. Where are the cupcakes? Who am I and what I have done with cookie dough [...]

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There are just some things you need in your life. Healthy caramel corn is one of them. Ehem, that means you. I know how you feel. Really, I do. It’s Wednesday in the second week of January. You just want the holidays to come back so you can hug your family and sing about chestnuts [...]

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Hey look! It’s a recipe! With food! On a food blog! You know food, right? That thing I haven’t talked about in forever? Yeah, it’s back. Darling, you have been missed. No wonder I love food so much. It sure knows how to make an entrance. I mean, have you seen this creamy tomato soup? [...]

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Words can do no justice. Do not be fooled. Your life changes now. Don’t let the unassuming nature of this recipe deceive you. These golden sticks of glory will come into your life (your mouth, to be more specific) and change everything everywhere for the better forever and ever. Amen. I do not exaggerate. Not [...]

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