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I Am... Grilled Cheese Pizza Recipe

November 4, 2014 • 81 comments • Posted in: bread, cheddar, cheese, grilled cheese, hangover food, no-knead pizza

When an email popped into my inbox proclaiming "OMG! It's How Sweet's Invisible Internet Friends Baby Shower!" it was hard not to get excited. I'm incredibly happy for Jessica (a dear friend and sweetheart), who has had a whirlwind of a year with her new book and soon, her new baby. A ton of people are on board to celebrate the best way we know how, so I hope you wore your stretchy pants! Settle in and get ready to look at some awesomely sparkly, trashed-up, oh-so-sweet Jessica inspired food.

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I Am... Sunday Brunch: Crispy Taro Pancakes Recipe

November 2, 2014 • 28 comments • Posted in: salmon, taro

It’s Sunday! You know what that means: it’s time for Sunday Brunch. Why don’t you skip the line and make brunch at home this week? The coffee’s truly bottomless, the booze doesn’t have a crazy markup and you can chill out in your pajamas. Every Sunday I’ll post a brunch recipe. Soon you won’t be asking, where should we go for brunch – instead it’ll be, what should we make for brunch today?

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I Am... Friday Links: 10.31.2014

October 31, 2014 • 6 comments • Posted in: link love

Happy Halloween! Do you guys have plans!? Every year, I want to make myself a paper mache animal head and every year Halloween comes and goes and I don't end up making a paper mache animal head. Instead I'll be eating all the candy (but mostly the Twix, Kit Kats and Coffee Crisps) because I live in a condo and people don't trick or treat the hallways.

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I Am... Totoro Jalapeño Grilled Cheese Recipen

October 30, 2014 • 26 comments • Posted in: cheese, jalapeno, totoro, totoro week

Totoro week continues with this Totoro jalapeño grilled cheese! Be sure to check out Lyndsay’s Totoro cake tutorial & Catbus tutorial and my Totoro apple pie pancakes & Totoro black sesame donuts!

I'm ending off Totoro week with a Totoro grilled cheese! He's savoury, he's spicy, he's grilled to perfection. I had the hardest time figuring out what his signature white belly would be made of, but when I came across half a wheel of brie in my cheese drawer (yes, I have a cheese drawer) it was like the Totoro stars aligned. A creamy tummy of brie and little seaweed eyes – how could you not want to love (eat) him?

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I Am... Totoro Black Sesame Donuts Recipe

October 28, 2014 • 38 comments • Posted in: black sesame, donuts, totoro, totoro week

Totoro week continues with these black sesame Totoros! Be sure to check out Lyndsay's Totoro cake tutorial and my Totoro apple pie pancakes!

Do you guys ever picture something coming out perfectly? Maybe this is a weird quirk of mine, but sometimes I'll day dream about dishes. I'll obsess over the ingredients, the way the finished product is going to look and how it's going to taste. Usually, when I do this, it ends in disaster. Once, I invited my in-laws over for pizza. This was when I just started cooking and I wasn't really too confident in the kitchen. I thought about the toppings, the dough, the logistics of baking off pizzas while they were over, how I set the table, everything.

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I Am... Sunday Brunch: Totoro Apple Pie Pancakes Recipe

October 26, 2014 • 25 comments • Posted in: apple, pancakes, totoro, totoro week

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I Am... Friday Links: 10.24.2014 & FBC

October 24, 2014 • 10 comments • Posted in: link love

It's been a strange week and there's a lot that's going on in the world (as always), but I prefer my little corner of the internet to be my cozy spot where nothing bad ever happens. And with that, I'm glad that it's Friday. I spent the week spending nights in with Mike and meeting up with friends, new and old. It looks like the weekend is going to be filled with food (no surprise there) and a bunch of errands that I've been putting off forever.

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I Am... Chicken Pho with Zucchini Noodles Recipe

October 23, 2014 • 24 comments • Posted in: chicken, vietnamese, zucchini

It's been a fabulous October so far: super sunny days, crisp air, blue skies, and rainbow leaves falling everywhere. But, like all good things, perfect weather can't last forever and we've been getting more and more rain. I love rain (especially when I'm inside) and when it's raining, it's like the world is begging me to make a big pot of soup. It's the perfect excuse to stay in, cozy up with a book and smell the soup simmering.

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I Am... Crispy Oven Sriracha Buffalo Wings Recipe

October 21, 2014 • 68 comments • Posted in: chicken, sriracha

I'm a huge fan of chicken wings and I don't really know anyone who isn't. I think eating wings satisfies some sort of primal urge we have to rip meat off bones. I truly believe eating wings brings people together. There's just no way to be civilized when eating wings. Well, I guess you could break out the knife and fork, but the truth is, if you're down with eating wings with someone, it means you're cool with being your real self. And my real self has sauce all up on my face, dirty hands and of course, a big smile for whoever I'm eating wings with.

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I Am... Sunday Brunch: Breakfast Grilled Cheese

October 19, 2014 • 26 comments • Posted in: brie, cherry, ham

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I Am... Friday Links: 10.17.2014

October 17, 2014 • 9 comments • Posted in: link love

It's Friday! It feels like it's been a particularly long week so I'm pretty excited about the weekend. On Wednesday I was preheating the oven for pizza and of course, the fire alarm went off. Usually when this happens I'll wave a dish cloth near the alarm and it'll stop beeping at me, but this time around the entire building's alarm went off! I thought it was me, but when we finally made it down all those flights of stairs (so many, many flights) we found out it was a false alarm. When we made it back upstairs I figured it was the perfect day to make pizza – if the alarm did go off, it wouldn't be because of me.

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I Am... Acorn Squash Lasagna Recipe

October 15, 2014 • 25 comments • Posted in: acorn squash, italian american, lasagna, pumpkin

Once it's sweater weather, I'm all about the cozy and nothing is more cozy than a big pan of lasagna. I even find the act of making lasagna super comforting. I even love getting my hands all saucy and cheesy. To up the cozy, I decided to squash-ify my lasagna with some roasted acorn squash, which is sweet, nutty and perfectly melty after a quick oven-roast.