Dinner

Happy Anniversary to B&B! Giveaway: Le Creuset French Oven in Dune

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May

Four years ago today, I posted for the first time to Bluebonnets & Brownies, this little blog o’ mine. I couldn’t know then the joy and knowledge it would bring to my life. Or the friendships. Back when I started B&B, I was more homesick than you could imagine. Two years into our move to [...]

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Sausage Vegetable Lasagna & Chinet Disposable Bakeware

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May

Lately I’ve become obsessed with Lasagna. Which is weird for me. Growing up, it was one of the few dishes that my nanny did not make well, so much so that it turned me off of it completely. I think it had something to do with the crunchy noodles where they got overcooked. Blech! Or [...]

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Grandma Mack’s Breakfast Delight

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May

James and I are huge fans of brinner. This hybrid of breakfast and dinner, brinner typically means we’re having bacon and eggs or breakfast tacos around 8 p.m. One of the highlights of brinner for me is that typically it takes little to no effort to accomplish, and we’re always left feeling happy and full. [...]

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Cheesecake Factory White Chicken Chili

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Apr

Are you a Big Bang Theory fan? If you are, you’ll get this post more than others. Recently, James’s best friend from high school, the fellow that introduced us to each other all those years ago, came for a visit. Mark brought with him his new bride, the lovely Heather, or as she’s affectionately known, [...]

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Baked Onion Soup

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Mar

There are few soups more comforting to me than savory, flavorful Baked Onion Soup. I think the first time I had it I was 5 or 6, and it was at this restaurant-bar-club spot called Gallagher’s. The special crock of bubbling, molten hot soup wafting its way towards me in the restaurant.. I can still [...]

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Lipton Superfruit Green Tea & Chicken Salad

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Feb

Puxatawney Phil may have predicted six more weeks of Winter, but down here in South Texas, it’s been bordering on shorts weather for a few weeks. Just yesterday my sister, niece and I went for a burrito, and actually considered sitting outside to eat them! For someone who has spent the last six years in [...]

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Octoberfest Beer Barbecue Sauce

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Nov

Not too long ago, James and I finally hit up this restaurant in our town, called the Stage House Tavern. Billed as the oldest restaurant in New Jersey (it’s been in operation since the 1700s), the place is pretty charming. The menu isn’t quite what I expected – I guess I was thinking along the [...]

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Thanksgiving Recipe Roundup

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Nov

Iâ€™ll let you in on a little Thanksgiving secret: Iâ€™m not cooking this year. I know, I know, this is a serious foodie sin. But hear me out. Weâ€™re staying in New Jersey for the holiday. And I just donâ€™t see the point of cooking a massive amount of food (because Iâ€™m sorry, I donâ€™t [...]

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Pork and Beer Skillet Stew & a Le Creuset Giveaway

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Nov

We love pork in this house. And beer. Two of the few things a Texan and a Brit might have in common from the very start, wouldn’t you say? A couple of weeks ago, James came home with a six pack of Sam Adam’s Octoberfest beer. Now, I’m not a beer drinker. But I loooooove [...]

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Turkey Burger Soup

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Nov

When I was a kid, many a weeknight dinner started with a jar of, as many of us Southerners term it, “Spaghetti Sauce”. It wasn’t until I moved to the East Coast that I learned a few things about my beloved Spaghetti Sauce. (Or as Davey and Ava like to call it, “Basketti Sauce”.) ‘Round [...]

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