Baked Elvis oatmeal

I’m not a stranger to baked oatmeal, but I love how Beth of Eat. Drink. Smile upped the ante with the addition of all her yummy fruit! I adapted her recipe a bit to use up what we had (super ripe bananas) and to add something both my kids are guaranteed to eat: peanut butter!

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Brined pork chops with white gravy

When The Yankee and I were first dating he announced one night that he was making me pork chops for supper.

Boy howdy.

I, ah, was not a fan of the chop of pork. The pork chops of my childhood were strikingly reminiscent of the sole of a shoe. An old shoe. In my mother’s [...]

Guacamole

On a trip to Hilton Head Island the Yankee and I discovered this dish: guacamole topped with crab meat. This is a win. I set out to recreate it as soon as we got home, and I’m pretty pleased with the result! This is a huge party hit, too; I highly recommend.

Print Guacamole

Ingredients

Two ripe avocados
Two Roma tomatoes, seeded and diced
1 jalapeno pepper, minced
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/2 cayenne pepper
Kosher salt to taste, but about 1/2 tsp.
Juice from one lime
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 medium onion, diced (or some onion powder if you hate the crunch of raw onion)
Eight ounces lump crab meat, drained
Chips (obviously)

Instructions

Scoop out the avocado into a bowl and mash with a fork
Stir in tomatoes, pepper, cumin, pepper, salt and lime juice, plus onion if you’re using it
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Sweet Relief: Nashville Food Blogger Bake Sale

UPDATE: We were able to raise $1000 for Second Harvest Food Bank today. So great!! Thank you to everyone who baked and helped and ate, and a huge thank you to Love and Olive Oil for organizing the whole thing.

You want to help after the Nashville flood. You also want cupcakes.

We [...]

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