~~posted by Jen Our friend Audra combined ideas from both Jen’s Practically Famous Chili and Nik’s Turkey and TVP Chili to come up with her own delectable version! Here’s how she made it, in her own words: “Hi Ladies: Thanks for your “cooking along” week for soups. I didn’t cook each day, but I was VERY inspired by your chili …
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Turkey Day Tips with Sugar Free Cranberry Sauce
~~posted by Jen It’s almost Turkey Day! What better time for the boys to decide we need to remodel my kitchen? I got home from Baltimore on Monday night to find the whole house in utter chaos. My camera is nowhere to be found, and I haven’t been able to get in my kitchen to cook all. week. long. This …
Read More »Low-Carb Corndog Bites
~by Nikki So…corndog bites. Why for, right? Well, if you’ve read this blog for a while, and have seen my forays with Thai Chicken and Banana Bon-Bons, you know that I have a certain affection for food on a stick. Well I’d been thinking lately that I need to add to my collection of stick food offerings on the blog …
Read More »Cook Along Contest: Amy’s Cabbage Kielbasa Soup
~~posted by Jen First, a shout out to everyone who cooked along during Soup Week a couple weeks ago and sent in their pictures and recipe modifications. We’ll be sharing the submissions all week. Amy made Nik’s Cabbage & Sausage Soup, and her only change to the original recipe was using Turkey Kielbasa instead of sausage. She said it smelled …
Read More »Jen’s Green Bean Casserole
~~posted by Jen This is the second of the select few recipes we’ll be sharing from the 2010 Holiday Preview. For those who’ve ordered the Portable Preview, you’ll be receiving the full recipe set shortly. For everyone else, it’s not too late to order yours! Yes, I actually have this bowl, don’t look so shocked! Everyone will receive …
Read More »Jen’s Mediterranean Tilapia
~~posted by Jen Here’s a little known fun fact about me: I adore trying a dish at a restaurant and then going home and re-creating the recipe. Nik loves to do that too, like her version of the “Mac Wrap.” Years ago my first husband Brian and I used to frequent this restaurant in Valdosta, Georgia (the name of which …
Read More »Recipe Remix: Jane’s Pot Roast with Mushroom Cream Sauce over Spaghetti Squash
~by Nikki We’ve gotten great reviews of our decision to start doing recipe remixes. And we’ve even got a reader submission–from our friend Jane! Now Jane totally saved my butt his week. I was scheduled to do a restaurant remix this week, but unfortunately life got in the way. You may not know this, but during the day I work …
Read More »Nik’s Big Bite: Southwest Tuna Melt Triangles
I’m so excited! And I just can’t hide it! I’m about to lose control…and I think I like it! (Dear Nik: the Pointer Sisters called and said, “cease and desist.” That is all.) So, if you are our fan on Facebook, you saw that I posted yesterday that I received my shipment of P-28 bread. After Jen’s review and delicious …
Read More »Jen’s MexiCali Meatloaf
~~posted by Jen Mini Meatloaf ready to eat! I was torturing y’all a couple weeks ago about my discovery of a non-carb binder for meatloaf, remember? I promised to tell you what it was, then Soup Week came along, and the meatloaf recipe got back-burnered. Well, it was pretty rude of me to leave y’all hanging like that, so I …
Read More »Recipe Remix: Dee’s Thai Shrimp
~~posted by Jen Dee’s Thai Shrimp Welcome to our very first “Recipe Remix” post. A recipe remix is exactly what it sounds like, we take an ingredient (in the case of this recipe it’s a sauce) or dish from a previous recipe and remix it into a whole different dish! This will help many of you who are faced with …
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