Nicole, For the Love of Food
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Rose & Orange Butter and Rose & Schallot Butter - recipes
I made these 2 rose butter recipes for my birthday party last year and they were a big hit. It really was so simple to make. Instead of making an entire stick of butter into one rose butter recipe, I decided to deviate for the recipe that Gisela Kadegge shared with me for the second half.
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Homemade Chocolate Chips - recipe
As many of you know by now, I can't eat sugar unless it's in the form of fructose. This makes making chocolate chip cookies very challenging.
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Tropical Rice
When I came across this recipe for Tropical Rice on Jaden's Steamy Kitchen blog, I was really really excited!
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General Tso’s Chicken
My husband came across a great-looking General Tso's Chicken recipe by Joanne Lutynec from Slash Food. He sent me an email that had the link and a subject line of "want". It was pretty clear.
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Kiwi Roll from Sushi Day
What's the first thing that comes to mind when you see a sea of sliced kiwi fruit? For me it's desert. It must be some sort of cake or yummy tart. But, in this case, it's actually sushi! Wild, huh? I don't believe I would have ever thought to combine kiwi with sushi, but hey, life would be dull if w
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Tropical Maki from SushiDay
A long long time ago I came across this great blog with some even more enticing pictures! I book marked it, as we all do with so many of the delicious blogs we find out there, and kept going. In the mood for sushi one day, I looked through my dusty bookmarks to see what I could find. And, there was
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Homemade Garlic Roll Goodness - recipe
By the time Friday got here and I was getting ready to cook my homemade tomato soup, I realized that I had lost my friends garlic roll recipe. I emailed her, but since she's in NZ (10 hours ahead) she didn't get my email until the next day. Turns out, anyways, that she left it in the US.
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Fake-Scream - Creamless Ice Cream - recipe
I had been craving a custard-based ice cream for quite some time now. But, since I can't eat sugar, I can't just walk down to my local ice cream parlor and get myself a cone…I have to make it myself. This is actually quite fun when everything goes according to plan. I made the custard in the eveni
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Chicken-Lime Soup - recipe
This is a really great, simple, and super quick soup that I came up with. It is my take on a favorite Ramen noodle dish that contains MSG and lots of other really "healthy" preservatives. This is my homemade version.
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BLT Steak - recipe
That's right - Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato on a nice juicy Steak! And, you don't even have to have a grill!
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Homemade Chicken Nuggets (mcdonald’s-style) - recipe
Last Fall I was stuck in bed with the flu. While I was dozing off, my husband was stumbling. He happened to stumble upon a cooking video site called I'm Cooked - it's similar to YouTube in that anyone can submit their video footage, but way different in that it's only for cooking videos. Don't check
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"Spring is in the Air" Pasta Salad - recipe
I came up with this delicious salad last May, and it was a big hit with friends! Eat it by itself, with a grilled chicken breast, cold, or room temperature - it doesn't matter - it's excellent any way you decide to eat it!
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Biscotti alla Birra - Beer Cookies - recipe
Ok, YES, you read that correctly - BEER COOKIES.
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Black Bean Stacked Salad - recipe
If you are a long-time follower of my blog (For the Love of Food), or have known me since my college-days, you know that I love this salad. I must make it at least every other month in the fall and winter and every other week in the spring and summer. I make different variations mostly with black beans, sometimes with kidney beans, other times with garbanzos, and once with a mixture of black beans, 3 kinds of lentils, garbanzos, and navy beans. ...