Chicken and Gnocchi Soup with Spinach and a girls night in PT. 1

I have mentioned before that I am from a moderately sized town in Northern West Virginia.  However, though we are a big town for the state, we are still pretty small.  There isn't a lot to do around here if you want to go out with your friends, and there is even less to do if you are not into …

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How to Make Homemade Noodles Recipe

I love family recipes and traditions!  I love them because it doesn't matter if I am standing next to my mother in the kitchen, or making something that was on my grandmother's table at every holiday, when you tap into those family recipes it is like they are right there with you. Today is…

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The Kitchen Wife Gone Wrong....REALLY wrong!

I was a lucky Kitchen Wife last night!  Studhubs came home and took me out to dinner.  We went to one of my favorite places, Olive Garden.  Can I just say that if you ever get the opportunity to try the salted caramel tiramisu DO IT!  MIND BLOWINGLY GOOD! Anyway, back to the reason for this post..…

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Freezer Cooking: Single serving style...

If you read my first blog post, you know that my mother-in-love (no, that is not a typo), Dora, lives with my husband and I.  She will be 90 years old in a few shorts weeks, and Dora has Alzheimer's.  Along with the obvious trials she deals with on a daily basis, she also lives with a conditio…

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A little memory from my grandmother's kitchen....

This morning I was standing at my stove, making a fried egg sandwich, and all of the sudden I was totally overwhelmed with the presence of my grandmother.  Odd, I know, but this morning I was taken back to her little farm kitchen, where she taught me how to make the first dish I ever learned to co…

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Some Kitchen Love From My Kitchen Heart....

Well, the kitchen is closed for the night and as I turned around to turn the light out I thought to myself "Whoa!  This is has been one crazy week!"  Yes it has! In the past seven days I have launched a blog, turned 36, survived bronchitis, and somehow managed to keep my sanity through i…

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A Spoon Full of Kitchen Love Makes the Medicine Go Down....

"  Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this sa…

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