Snacks

Crab & Avocado Nachos

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I don’t mean to be bossy or anything, but… You must. Make. These. NOW.

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Malted Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

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So, you know, I’m working on this little book. And I need things to photograph. So I stuffed a vanilla malt into a chocolate chip cookie and poured myself a glass of milk. Suddenly I found myself elbow deep in this buttery, crumbly, malt-y, weird looking but seriously wonderful dough.  And then I ate a [...]

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Triple Chocolate Party Balls

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Once upon a time, I ate a million Triple Chocolate Party Balls.  And Bjork got me an iPhone for Christmas. I downloaded my first app: Instagram. And then I fell in love with Instagram. I played for way too long with Instagram.  Everything I saw suddenly became an Instagram.  I dreamed in Instagram.  Psychosis? No, [...]

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Chili Cheese Black Bean Dip

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Wait, Christmas is over already? Hmmph. So, like, is it New Year’s yet? And can we still hang out and have parties all week? And where’s the Chili Cheese Black Bean Dip?

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Fluffy Sugar Cookies & Vanilla Frosting

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Dear Santa, I’ve been very good this year.

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Holiday Pretzel Bites

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I love dessert.  And there’s only one thing that could make me not like dessert. It’s spending 3 hours in the kitchen melting, freezing, breaking knives, getting blisters, thawing, spilling, and refreezing the most high maintenance holiday toffee recipe in the world.  Yes, it happened, and there’s a bag of broken, messy toffee pieces to [...]

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Brown Sugar Cookies

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I just applied for my Masters program. Then I ate five cookies to dull the pain. But the pain is still there.   Ouchie. No matter how I feel about becoming a better reading teacher for K-12 (which happens to be awesome), I do not feel awesome about going back to school.  How did this happen?!  [...]

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Peanut Butter Cheesecake Brownies

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Friday.  Chocolate.  Choc.o.late. With sweet ribbons of peanut buttery cheesecake. Baked to ooey gooey perfection and eaten by the row.

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Baked Gingerbread Mini Donuts

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Hellooo mini donuts. Hellooo gingerbread scents. Hellooo Justin Beiber Christmas album.  What?

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Pumpkin Dip for Gingersnaps

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This post is the crossroads of my teacher self and my blogger self. You have some homework. You need to make this glorious trio of pumpkin, cream cheese, and heavy whipping cream and bring it to a party.  For me, a party is usually me and Bjork hanging out on a Tuesday night.  But you [...]

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