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Caprese Scones

Caprese Scones / Bev Cooks

AS IN, cheesy tomato summer biscuits. Like, look at that cheese. These are going to ruin you so good, so pony up, pigeons. We’re making basic scones, but adding an obscenely vibrant caprese twist that will have your heads falling off. La-heeeeeeet us peepeth. I know it looks like a lot (it might not look […]

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Creamy Shrimp Gnocchi with Spinach

Creamy Shrimp Gnocchi with Spinach / Bev Cooks

Creamy and dreamy. Are you seeing this? I have 150 pages of left of The Great Alone and every time I make a food, eat a food, look at a food I think, “The Allbrights really would have liked this. Well, Cora and Leni would. ERNT can eat his own toenails.” What was I saying? […]

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Creamy Chicken and Farfalle Pasta

Creamy Chicken and Farfalle Pasta / Bev Cooks

Your new go-to weeknight pasta. Right here. This is it. This is she. This be her. What? And it has heavy cream in it so you can go ahead and do a triple axel twirl throw jump toe pick. Feel better? This pasta dish is EXACTLY what you want in a  . . . well, […]

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Turkey Pesto Meatloaf

Turkey Pesto Meatloaf / Bev Cooks

This is summer’s way of allowing us comfort food. BECAUSE THAT THING IS PESTO PACKED. (sorry to scream.) This is a recipe I’ve had in mind since January. But it had to be basil pesto, and it had to be fresh from the garden, GOSH DARNIT. And I can honestly say, it was even more […]

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Chicken Spring Rolls

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Is it obnoxious to post spring rolls a month before spring? I’m pretending that you’re shaking your head so hard your eyeballs are loosening. Spring rolls! How can you not? They’re spring rolls. With GROUND CHICKEN. But let me just say right here and right now, swap in pork or beef if you want. If […]

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Asian Basil Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Asian Basil Chicken Lettuce Wraps / Bev Cooks

This is the week of chicken! Meaning . . . I’m posting the second chicken recipe of the week. So, two recipes. Never mind. Just how in love with lettuce wraps are you? I forget just how much I dig these funnels o’ life until that first moment of head shoveling. (<–none of those words […]

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Coconut Basil Chicken with Brown Rice

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I now pronounce you, coconut basil sauce and wife. I can’t stop with the sauces. Nor would I ever want to. Nor could I ever want to. Nor should I ever want to. I’m a loner, Dottie. A rebel – geeeetting off track. This sauce is all about the basil. Four cups of it. More […]

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Creamy Potato Soup with Bacon and Basil

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Since the stupid stubborn snow refuses to melt, me thinks the clear solution is creamy potato soup. Look, I don’t want to get all annoyingly weather-obsessed on ya, but I’ve taken a peepsie into the long ranger forecast and me thinks we’re bound for some serious melting. Me also thinks that it’s probably the grossest […]

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