Author: Alicia

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us in the Everyday Home Cook household! Recipe for Whole Wheat Pizza Crust can be found here!  

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Weekly Menu Plan, Feb 12 – Feb 18

It’s a good thing I a flexible with my menu plans, because if I were not, the whole venture would be considered a disaster!  When planning our menu last week, I completely forgot that we would be having a “fondue night” at our friends’ house, and that I would need to make an…

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Sugar Cookie Cutouts

I love old family recipes.  They mean so much to me, because not only are they the foods that I grew up with, but my family grew up with them as well.  It’s that connection to past generations which makes them all-the-more special.  Growing up, we made sugar cookies for just about every…

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Coffee Cake Muffins

Whenever we had Chicken Noodle Soup growing up, it was usually accompanied by either blueberry muffins or cinnamon muffins.  Now that I have a family of my own, I find myself making the same things together, too.  And this recipe has become my go-to cinnamon muffin recipe.  I always have everything to make…

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Weekly Menu Plan, Feb 5 – Feb 11

I’ve made it over 6 weeks now planning weekly dinner menus!  Let me tell you, it has revolutionized the way I look at making dinner.  For something that happens every day, I was really unprepared for it!  Some nights I even dreaded thinking about the answer to the question, “What’s for dinner?” Perhaps…

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Cheesy Beans & Rice

Cheesy Beans & Rice has become one of our family’s favorite quick dishes.  It would make a great side, but has enough flavor and substance to stand on its own as a main dish.  Personally, I love to eat the beans & rice with tortilla chips!  Another great thing about this recipe is…

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Valentine’s Day Ideas

Candy and Valentine’s Day can hardly be separated. Try to imagine a Valentine’s Day without seeing one of those giant heart-shaped boxes full of chocolates…  It’s pretty difficult! However, you don’t have to spend a lot of money to show your loved ones just how special they are to you.  This Valentine’s Day,…

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Weekly Menu Plan, Jan 29 – Feb 4

Last week, I roasted a whole chicken and turned it in to three meals.  It worked out pretty well, although I was not counting on the family eating so much chicken for lunch the day after I roasted it!  So, the quesadillas and soup were a little shy of the amount of chicken…

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French Onion Soup

When I first set out to make French Onion Soup, I didn’t know where to start.  And my husband has never been a fan, so I haven’t made it much.  I looked at just about every resource I could find on the internet (recipe collection sites, food blogs, etc.) and several cookbooks in…

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Weekly Menu Plan, Jan 22 – Jan 28

Last week’s menu plan went well.  I was able to try a new recipe with some meatballs I had previously made and frozen.  I made the sauce from Elise’s Swedish Meatballs (minus the jam), and they were delicious!  I have to say, I haven’t ever liked Swedish meatballs in the past, but I…

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