beef and cheese enchiladas 19

Easy Beef Enchiladas

I learned all about avocados yesterday.  I learned that there are thousands of varieties- Hass being the main one.  I learned that an avocado is the only fruit that will…

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Chocolate Chip Snickerdoodles 2

Toffee Chip Snickerdoodles & The Food Blogger Bake Sale

It’s no secret that I’m rather fond of baking.  I (almost) always have homemade cookies individually wrapped in the freezer… ready to throw into lunches and available for munching when…

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Broiled Fish Tacos 1

Broiled Fish Tacos

Cristina Ferrare is the gorgeous and talented hostess of Cristina Ferrare’s Big Bowl of Love on Oprah’s OWN Network.  She has just published a cookbook:  Big Bowl of Love- Delight…

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RecipeGirl

Welcome to the NEW RecipeGirl website!

Welcome Readers to the newly designed RecipeGirl.com website!  This site debuted as a recipe database back in 2006 – a small collection of recipes under another name.  It was re-named…

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East Coast Trip 29

East Coast Eats: Portsmouth, Portland & Freeport

This post is a food tour of a little vacation to the East Coast that my family took recently. We flew into Boston very late on a Saturday night… as…

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Baked Lemon Spaghetti 20

Baked Lemon Spaghetti

Looking for an easy dinner idea? Grab a rotisserie chicken, throw together a green salad, and bake up this simple and delicious pasta dish for dinner tonight. This one is…

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Cinnamon Roll Waffles 4

Cinnamon Roll Waffles

I’ve had a tough time forgetting about those Cinnamon Roll Pancakes that I posted a few weeks ago. So much so that I started wondering what else I could do…

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Salted Fudge Brownies

Salted Fudge Brownies

Salty + sweet is a match made in heaven. If you’ve never tried it, you simply must trust me and give it a go. Picture this… super fudgy, chocolatey, velvety…

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Southwestern Bruschetta bites

Southwestern Bruschetta Bites

When asked recently by Pepperidge Farm if I would create a simple and sophisticated recipe using their Puff Pastry product and an ingredient somewhat native to Southern California (the avocado),…

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Roasted Shrimp 10

Roasted Shrimp with Rosemary and Thyme

I was tweeting along one day (as I usually do), when I saw a tweet from Fine Cooking asking Twitterers to check out their recipe for Roasted Shrimp with Rosemary…

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Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

100 Chocolate Chip Recipes

It’s been a very Happy Chocolate Chip Week! For the grand finale, I searched high and low for the best recipes utilizing chocolate chips on the internet.   Here’s what…

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles 8

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles

I’ve never liked chocolate chip cookies. Go ahead and throw tomatoes at me if you’d like, but I don’t like ‘em. They’re just a plain old cookie, after all, with…

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Peanut Butter pound Cake 5

Chocolate Chip- Peanut Butter Pound Cake with Peanut Butter Glaze

It’s Chocolate Chip Week here on the Recipe Girl blog. It’s not official or anything, but since pretty much everything tastes better with chocolate chips added to it, I thought…

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Chocolate Chip Pancakes 8

Whole Wheat- Chocolate Chip Pancakes

When I was little, I had a best friend in the neighborhood by the name of Karen. She was strikingly pretty for a little girl. I wanted her perfect, shiny,…

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Monkey Bread 1

Monkey Bread

I teamed up with GoodBite to help celebrate the launch of their online store!  Monkey Bread is what I chose to make with the Kitchen Aid Mixer that I received…

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Spinach Mac n' Cheese 14

Spinach Macaroni and Cheese

For cheese-lovers, there is nothing on earth quite as satisfying as a dish of homemade macaroni and cheese.   I love to see a good mac n’ cheese on the menu…

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Irish Cream Cupcakes 10

Irish Cream Cupcakes w/ Bailey’s Buttercream Frosting

I baked a boatload of cupcakes for my son’s basketball team party the other day. To be quite honest with you, I made a couple of boxed mix cupcakes –…

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Irish Mojitos 19

Irish Mojito

I’m definitely not Irish. I’m mostly a Swedish girl at heart- big bones, big appetite, a bit on the stubborn side, and many distant relatives in Minnesota. My husband is…

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