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Recipe Roundup: April Edition

April 27, 2017 By Jessica Braider Leave a Comment

Recipe Roundup: April Edition

This month is kind of a wacky month for my recipe roundup because three of these recipes come from one cookbook: Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem: A Cookbook*. I have a complicated relationship with this cookbook. I love it because everything that I make from it comes out so well, the pictures are beyond beautiful, and the recipes are truly inspiring, but I also find it challenging because many of the recipes include obscure ingredients that, truthfully, I am not willing to drop lots of money on to possibly use just once before they go bad. So I have started adapting when I use the book and so far that has worked out pretty well!…

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Filed Under: Baked Goods, Cooking Basics, Dessert, Dinner, Family Dinner, Freezer Cooking, Lunch Box Food, Sides Tagged With: butternut squash, cake, calzones, cauliflower, dessert, Easy, healthy, pizza, roasted, salad, Vegetables

Slow Cooker Butternut Squash-Sage Soup

December 3, 2013 By Jessica Braider 1 Comment

Slow Cooker Butternut Squash-Sage Soup

This week I have been having trouble getting back into the swing of things after Thanksgiving. I just sort of feel like I am moving through molasses. And one of the things I haven’t been so excited about doing is cooking- which is quite a rare thing for me. But dinner still needs to get on the table and lunches still need to be made (yay for husbands who are in charge of breakfasts!), so in an effort to motivate myself I set up a challenge: can I use up all the leftover herbs before they go bad? You see, in years past I have always struggled with this. Months later I will discover a plastic produce bag pushed back under the carrots that is filled with black, slimy something. It totally grosses me out and makes me feel guilty because I hate wasting food.

So yesterday’s challenge was the leftover sage. I decided to go with a slow-cooker butternut squash soup because that way I wouldn’t have to exert much effort AND I could also use up my remaining veggie stock—added bonus! Turned out to be such a huge hit that there weren’t even enough leftovers for my husband’s lunch. My older kiddo had THREE bowls of it at dinner last night and the little one cleaned his bowl (which is quite an accomplishment for him!).

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Filed Under: Dinner, Slow Cooker Tagged With: butternut squash, Easy, healthy, sage, soup

Jessica Braider

Hi! I'm Jessica. I love delicious food that is simple and easy. As a busy mom, I am always on the lookout for ways to make life easier and tastier! Read More…

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