Roasted Parmesan Sugar Snap Peas

I was on a hunt the other day for some fresh spring peas (I'm pretending it's not still freezing outside) but none of my local grocery stores had them. What I did find was fresh sugar snap peas. Those wouldn't work for the recipe I had in mind but I figured I'd come up with something so I grabbed them.





They look like rounded snow pea pods and, in fact, they're kind of a cross between a

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Tex-Mex Potato and Beef Burritos

One of my goals is to get better about weekly meal prep and make-ahead freezer meals. I've always found that the prep work on a Sunday is totally worth the ease and convenience of having ready made meals and prepped vegetables during the hectic week. Now I just have to get better about doing it on a regular basis.





Step one in my plan to get better about prepping is to know what I want to

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Peanut Butter and Jelly Air Fried Doughnuts

See these hot, fluffy doughnuts, oozing with jelly and dripping with peanut butter glaze? Fresh from the fryer! Oh, wait, I meant the air fryer. Yup. These beauties are an air fryer masterpiece.





My air fryer has literally been sitting on my tiny kitchen counter, in my postage stamp sized Manhattan kitchen for days and days because I've been running doughnut batches through it daily. A

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Chicken Sausage with Creamy Polenta and Onion Gravy

Let's talk about quick and easy weeknight dinners because it's a subject that comes up often around here. It's actually most likely to come up at about 6:00 pm when I look up from my computer screen and realize that I haven't planned anything for dinner.





So that's when I take a moment to consider my options: take-out (nah), scrambled eggs (again??) or a kitchen rummage to see what I've

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Currant Scones

It snows, it warms up, it snows, it warms up. All month long. Rinse and repeat. I know it's just winter's last hurrah before exiting for the year but I'm a little over it. Yesterday was another inclement weather day so I did the only logical thing - I baked.





It's been a while since I baked a batch of fresh scones but they're so great with a cup of tea on a rainy/snowy afternoon. I scoured

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Banana Cream Pie

For those people who know me well, the only surprising part about me baking a banana cream pie is that it's the first time I've ever done it. And surprising because it is literally my favorite dessert of all time.






When I was growing up, Sunday was family day and my father used to pile us all into the car and head somewhere, anywhere, out of the city. Sometimes it was the zoo or the

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French Onion Patty Melts

One of my cooking mottos would have to be French onion all the things! Why? Because the combination of beef, Gruyere cheese and caramelized onions is awesome. Sure, it's great in soup but it's just as great minus the soup. Patty melts are already awesome so giving them the French onion twist just makes them even more so.





A patty melt is really a hybrid of a burger and a grilled cheese

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Cheddar Soda Bread

Every year I bake some kind of soda bread around St. Patrick's Day and every year I ask myself why I don't bake it more often. It's easy to make and so completely delicious. And it lends itself to lots of variations.





My favorite version is probably my sweet soda bread. All you need is some butter and a cup of tea on repeat. But I was thinking about a great corned beef sandwich and decided

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Cornmeal Onion Fritters

I usually enjoy adapting recipes to be a little healthier and that often means employing my oven or air fryer instead of the deep fryer. But, sometimes there's just no really good substitute for the original, like a crispy onion fritter. And, let's face it, sometimes we need a good, crispy onion fritter.





I've tested this recipe and a few variations of it in both the oven and the air fryer

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