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Photo of the Day: BB made these for me and D the other night! Stuffed bell peppers with rice, tomatoes, ground beef, and cheese. Yummy yummy!

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Apple Pie Cups, or Baby Pies

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My roommate BB was not having a good weekend, and I wanted to bake something for her. We’d had brownies twice in the past week. I considered a cake, but didn’t know if the house we’re living in had cake pans. The house did, however, have a muffin tin.

Get your umbrellas. It’s a brainstorm, y’all!

I chopped apples and added them to the ingredients in my mom’s apple pie filling recipe: 1/3 cup of sugar, 1 tablespoon of cinnamon, a pinch of nutmeg, a bit of butter. They hung out on the stove while I rolled out store bought dough (lazy foodie alert), cut out circles, and situated them in the muffin tin. Then, I filled the dough cups with filling and made a quick lattice crust with the small amount of dough I had left. Popped those suckers in the oven at 400 degrees for about 12 minutes and presto!

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They were total deliciousness. And only 125 calories each (I did the math)!

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Oh, this kitchen. So sleek. So classy. So jealous.

Redneck Spaghetti

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…is what I had for dinner last night!

Too hungry, no pictures. (Is that the food blogger’s form of tl;dr?)

(‘too long; didn’t read’ for the uninitiated)

Redneck spaghetti probably goes against everything Italian food stands for. Except deliciousness.

Its politically correct name is “chicken spaghetti”, and the chicken is probably the only redeeming quality as far as health that this dish has. I mean, it’s ingredients include mass amounts of cheddar cheese, noodles, and a can of Rotel. (Please tell me you guys know the wonders of Rotel + Velveeta + ground beef queso? It better not be a Texas thing. The whole world needs to know about this guilty, guilty pleasure.) It’s basically queso with chicken and noodles. And some olives and onion.

And it was served with huge hunks of bread with more cheese melted on top. And I had feta cheese on my salad (like 3 spoonfuls). I’ve definitely got my calcium for the next 5 years…

Anywho, find a recipe and make redneck spaghetti when you’ve been freshly fired or dumped (or you found out that Nora Ephron died, WHAT THE HECK, so sad). It’s Southern comfort food at it’s best.

(For real, my grandmother was talking about how many funerals she’s been to where this was a main attraction.)

Bon appetit!

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This reminds me of the peach-strawberry swirled ice cream from Ham’s Orchard in Terrell, TX! My grandparents took me there when I was little, and when I was in high school, it was the ‘cool’ thing to head down there in the summer.

What I Ate: Greek Yogurt is So Hot Right Now

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So, you guys remember when I gushed all over the blog about the Ben & Jerry’s new Greek yogurt flavors?

Well, if you missed it, here it is.

I indulged my obsession again this morning when I went on a boredom trip to Target.

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source: the Googles

I love pineapple, and I love Greek yogurt. This (impulse) purchase was a no-brainer.

I licked the lid when I opened it, because I am a 6 year old that’s just what you do with yogurt, and it was shockingly tart. Much more tart than the vanilla part of the Ben & Jerry’s. I quickly twirled my spoon around in the carton to mix the pineapple on the bottom with the yogurt. Another quick taste. Muuuuch better.

I give this Greek yogurt 8 Big Fat Greek Weddings out of 10. I would really have loved more pineapple, but I’m a pineapple freak special, so you normals would probably be satisfied.

What I Ate: Crawfish (and Tacos)

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I’m living in my college town over the summer while I intern at the Y, and my university is super awesome and offers tons of summer events.

Which is why…

…I found myself here—at a crawfish boil!

The event started at 11 am, and by 11:15, when my friends and I arrived, the line was even longer than this! At this point, they ran out of catfish and jambalaya. Major sad face. Luckily, we were there for the main event.

These puppies were hard to eat. Mostly because we had never done it before, and had no training. Oops. My sorority sister and roommate BB also had lots of trouble eating something that had eyes.

Me, I just posed for pictures with them.

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So we ditched the free food and walked to the Fuzzy’s north of campus, where I got a tempura shrimp taco (delicious) and a veggie taco (not as delicious) to supplement my crawfish.

While we had to, you know, buy more food, as I kept saying throughout the meal, “this was an experience!!”.

A delicious one.

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Photo of the day: my dinner. Nothing sounded good to me—except for breakfast. No healthy English muffin for me. Those are chocolate chip pancakes, super floppy bacon (just the way I like it) and a fried egg.

Get on my level.