Let’s cook

I love to cook. My recipes come from a variety of sources: ones I grew up eating, some from my favorite cookbooks, and a few I’ve modified along the way.

When I sat down to envision this website, I knew it had to have a section for recipes.

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  • Peach & Blueberry Cake

    Peach & Blueberry Cake

    I recently had several peaches from a stop at the Farmers Market and needed to find a way to use them up. I tried this recipe out from…

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  • Chocolate Protein Oatmeal

    Chocolate Protein Oatmeal

    I first saw this recipe on Taylor Grasso’s Instagram (linked below). She a nutritionist and I like her balanced take on taking care of yourself and caring about…

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  • HBH Blueberry Muffin Bread

    HBH Blueberry Muffin Bread

    This is a recipe from Half Baked Harvest that I made for the first time this week and absolutely know I will be returning to again and again. My son’s…

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  • Buttermilk Fried Chicken Tenders

    Buttermilk Fried Chicken Tenders

    In one of my bouts of rereading lately I found my way back to Kristen Ashley’s Chaos series with Hound and Keely’s book, Wild Like the Wind. In it…

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  • Jenn’s Focaccia

    Last year for my fiftieth birthday we had a group of friends over. My friend and colleague, Jenn, brought focaccia bread. It was delicious. I asked for the…

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  • Cafe Kopi’s Toasted Cheese

    There was a coffee shop in Champaign, a college town near us, that has been open for a few decades and it closed last week. I loved Café…

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