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Honey Glazed Carrots

September 13, 2016 By Aly 2 Comments

These Honey Glazed Carrots will be a family favorite for dinner – even your little ones will adore this side dish!

This recipe originally appeared on Cooking In Stilettos in April of 2012. The recipe has been updated with new photos and any recipe changes that I have incorporated over the years.

Growing up, if you had told me that I would become a fan of carrots and channel my inner Bugs Bunny, I probably would have laughed and told you that you were beyond crazy. Carrots and I are definitely not mixy things – or so I thought until an Easter holiday….

Tried and True: PB & J Wings

January 25, 2014 By Aly 20 Comments

These PB & J Wings will be a hit at your next game day or tailgate soiree. Baked chicken wings are tossed in a spicy sweet sauce for a winning bite!

Welcome to Day #6 of Appetizer Week, a multi-blogger event co-hosted by Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Kristen from Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker. Whether you are a Broncos fan or a Seahawks fan, we wanted to make sure you had plenty of ideas for your game day spread. Each day we will be dishing up a different set of appetizers. We hope you enjoy this fabulous group of recipes. Tune in each day starting with Monday, January 20 and ending on Saturday, January 25. Today is our final day of #AppetizerWeek. We hope you have enjoyed it as much as we have! Should we make it an annual event? I think so!

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I cannot believe that Appetizer Week is coming to a close. Let me tell you – not only did I get a ton of appetizer ideas for the Big Game, but also I have found some amazing blogs, fabulous recipes and the prizes – oh heavens – the prizes. Our fearless leaders, Kim and Kristen really went above and beyond for the readers and today’s giveaway is beyond amazing. More on that in a moment.

To finish up Appetizer Week, I knew that wings had to be in the mix. My gal Sunny Anderson has a killer wing CHAPTER in her cookbook, Sunny’s Kitchen and these PB & J wings are my absolute favorite. I know – you are going “Aly – PB&J is a SANDWICH not a WING” but hear me out. Grape jelly goes well in a ton of dishes (including my tried and true Southern aka Grape Jelly Meatballs). Peanut sauce goes fabulous with chicken. So – if you marry the two, you have a sweet, spicy, and salty combo that will have you licking your fingers and looking for more because these wings are THAT good….

Bacon Bark – The Perfect Sweet Treat To Give or Receive #ChristmasWeek #Giveaway

December 10, 2013 By Aly 39 Comments

Welcome to Day #2 of Christmas Week, a multi-blogger event co-hosted by Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Jen from Juanita’s Cocina! Each day we will be celebrating the holidays with a different set of Christmas-themed treats, as well as a fabulous Christmas giveaway. We hope you enjoy this fabulous event. Tune in each day starting Monday, December 9th and ending Saturday, December 14th.

I am SO excited to take part in the Christmas Week excitement with some pretty amazing bloggers and we’re all bringing you the best in holiday treats and sweets for this year.

I don’t know about you but I’m in dire need of some holiday culinary inspiration. I had to share this lovely treat that I am whipping up for some friends and family – Bacon Bark. Yes – you heard that right – Bacon. Bark. It’s the perfect balance of sweet and spicy, highly addictive and it will take every ounce of willpower for you to share with your loved ones. If you serve this at any holiday soiree, I guarantee you that it will be gone in a flash. If you leave it for Santa – let’s just say that you might wind up on the nice list for quite some time. After all – isn’t almost everything better with bacon?…

Rustic Loaded Sticky Buns from #SunnysKitchen for #PassTheCookbook Club

October 24, 2013 By Aly 13 Comments

It’s Pass the Cookbook time again and, for this month’s challenge we were able to dive into Sunny Anderson’s new cookbook, Sunny’s Kitchen. If you saw my copy, you would probably laugh from all the recipes I have flagged to try – it’s that good!

For this month’s Pass the Cookbook Club, we had three fab recipes to play with – Loaded Puff Pastry Sticky Buns, Honey BBQ Short Ribs or a slap yourself silly Spicy Mac ‘n Cheese. How can one pick just one, right? I was at a loss.

This has been quite the month so I decided to challenge myself in the kitchen, work outside of my comfort zone, and go with the Loaded Sticky Buns. Easy peasy right? Remember my last dough drama – you already know that working with dough terrifies me. Whenever I break out the marble pastry board, I tend to overthink, over panic and am a hot mess. So, to be safe, I bought a couple boxes of puff pastry – “just in case”. My only attempt at a sticky bun of any kind has been out of refrigerated tube so this was going to be interesting….

Pan Fried Meatloaf In Tri Color Peppers #PepperParty

October 3, 2013 By Aly 7 Comments

A few fabulous bloggers decided to throw a Pepper Party with Divemex, one of the leading purveyors of bell peppers and, besides giving you the chance to win some amazing prizes, we’re also spotlighting some of our favorite tried and true bell pepper recipes.

Before we dive into the recipe I brought to the party, let me give you a head’s up into the prize for today. It’s one of my favorite things I use constantly in my kitchen and I would love to see one of you win it – a Le Creuset Braiser. Let me tell you that you will toss out those old fry pans and use this one for everything. Take a peek at this lovely:

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