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I made this recipe as a treat to take to the first screening I attended of Star Wars IX: Rise of Skywalker , which I enjoyed far  more than I'd thought I would (translation: I loved it, shrieked several times with joy, laughed, and at the end, I sobbed because I'm just a hot mess sometimes, whaddya want).  I saw the movie with a bunch of coworkers, so of course I offered to share my snack with them, only to discover that New Englanders don't know what puppychow/dog food/muddy buddies  is.  Like ... how?   Did y'all never go to day camp in the summer?  Vacation Bible School?  4H? (The answer: no.  And if they did, this wasn't served.  I and all of my midwestern acquaintances are horrified , I tell you! Horrified.) I'm uploading this recipe because a) the original recipe  makes twice as much as will fit in my largest mixing bowl and y'all I don't need that much of this treat lying around my house; b) I really don't like having to do me...

Moonstruck  has been a fascinating cultural experience for me. I first saw it when I was in my early teens, maybe tweens, and I loved it (it's got Cher in it, how could I not  love it?). Six or so years later, I attended Thanksgiving with my long-suffering partner's extremely  Italian family, and I fell in love with Moonstruck  all over again because oh my god they weren't exaggerating anything in the movie Italian-Americans really are this amazing . Then four or five years after that, I visited New York City for the first time and got a taste of the city in which Moonstruck  is set (though 2010 NYC and 1986 NYC are vastly  different places), and finally had all the pieces I needed to truly enjoy Moonstruck  in its entirety. (I still love Cher, don't be confused, but Olympia Dukakis as Rose is absolutely 100% the best part  of that movie. "You've got a lovebite on your neck." I CAN'T.) Now fast-forward to October 2016. We'd gone to see a play,...

My partner and I went to a restaurant a few weeks back and for dessert, we got a slice of something called the "Imposible." It was advertised as "chocolate cake with custard drizzled with caramel." As it turns out, that's like telling someone about Niagara Falls by saying "It's some rocks with water falling off it." This thing was ACTUALLY chocolate cake made with cinnamon and cayenne pepper, topped with a thick vanilla custard, dusted over with cinnamon, and drizzled in rich warm caramel sauce. We each took a bite and melted a little because holy heavens it was good. "I know how to make this," I told my partner. "Really?" he said. "This is a thing?" "No," I said (around a mouthful of cake, I wasn't about to let conversation rob me of my fair half of the slice), "but I can make this." (Side-note: my other superpowers include being able to nap anywhere, diving way too deep way too fast in...

If hugs were an edible thing, I'm pretty sure what they would taste like. Shamelessly ganked from this lovely website and edited up because that's kinda what I do to stuff. You HAVE to have a veggie spiralizer Also, I've doubled the recipe so that it now fits in a 13x9" pan, because when I make it in a 9x9" pan, we eat the whole thing in one sitting. With a 13x9", we get 8 servings. I think this probably means that we're little piggies. NO REGRETS. Zuccquinoac 'n Cheese Ingredients 1 cup uncooked quinoa 2 cups water 4 zucchini (or "courgettes," a word with which I am currently hysterically obsessed) 5 1/2 oz cheddar cheese 5 1/2 oz monterrey jack cheese 5 1/2 oz pepper jack cheese Butter for your pan 3/4 cup Italian seasoned bread crumbs Instructions - In a small saucepan, heat water. You want it boiling, but it doesn't have to be at a boil when you put in the quinoa. - Rinse the quinoa, then put it into the wat...

It's been 10 years and 2 months since I married my hairy, nerdy, wonderful Italian partner. Fourteen years and nine months since I started dating said Italian. And in all that time, I have never once managed to make an Italian dish that fell anywhere on the spectrum above "that was pretty nice" (minestrone), and most of them were more along the lines of "well, that won't kill us, at least." I'm French/German, I think, and Appalachian 100%. I don't do Italian food (and Italian food doesn't do me - except to do me in, why pasta feels the need to expand and make me ill every time I eat it is a mystery to modern man). That all changed today. I've decided to go low-carb for the month of July this year, just because we eat a) way too much bread and b) waaaaaaaaay too many sweets. I'm trying to get us away from that. So far, I've been mostly successful (though the second week was the hardest - I think this happened when I experimented ...

I ate it for breakfast anyway. And then I was sick. It's just so delicious , is all, and David made it for me before our breakfast smoothies so I was hungry and then I ate like two dishes of pudding and  my smoothie and now I'm uploading the recipe to my blog whilst curled up  on the sofa in a ball of very happy regret. Make the pudding after breakfast, is all I'm saying. And double the recipe next time, David. I ate so much of this stuff (he had a serving, too) that now we only have one serving left! ;A; (This is a fabulous way to get rid of leftover rice, by the way. Make a cup of rice, eat a quarter cup of it for lunch, whine that you don't want rice for lunch anymore, the leftover rice'll get nice and hard and  inedible as straight-up rice, and then boom! Pudding!) :} Rice Pudding is NOT a Breakfast Food Ingredients 3/4 cup uncooked rice, which you will cook 1/3 cup raisins 1/4 cup milk (I use soy) 1 tbsp Irish cream 2 cups milk (I use soy) 1/4 ...

These cinnamon rolls are not good for you. In fact, they are actively bad for you. But they're cinnamon rolls, so they're SUPPOSED to be wicked awful for your health. Makes it so that you won't make them terribly often, which you wouldn't anyway because honestly this recipe is pretty long and kind of a pain in the neck (for all that it's not all that difficult). You can easily double the recipe for more cinnamon rolls, and if you do so, just use a 13x9" pan. Yes, this makes a casserole dish-size serving if doubled. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go DDR off all the cinnamon rolls I'm about to eat. /caloric guilt Rolling in the Deep Dish Cinnamon Rolls Ingredients Total butter needed : 8 tbsp (1 stick) Total sugar needed : 8 1/2 tsp (or 2 tbsp 2 1/2 tsp) Total cinnamon needed : 1 1/4 tsp Total time needed : 2 hours Total yield : 24 cinnamon rolls 1 cup warm water 1 1/8 tsp yeast  2 tsp white sugar 1 1/2 cups flour, added se...