I’ve been craving some blueberry muffins lately but I’ve been sick so I haven’t had the chance to cook or bake much the past week. Now that I’m about 99.9% better, I had to make some blueberry muffins right away! These muffins are very very very berry. I figured blueberries are jam packed with vitamins they’ve gotta be good for me. You could cut down the amount of blueberries if you want more cake.
Depending on how you like your muffins, you can add about another minute to the baking if you like it a bit more brown. I like to take it out a little before then so the insides is still incredibly moist. Test it out, see what you like! Enjoy!
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Posted by: Maggie Ha
Category: baking, food, mmmm, recipes
Tags: baking, cooking, food, recipe, recipes, snacks, sweets
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Mmmmm, chocolate chips with chocolate?! OH YEAH! I was thinking about making it a triple chocolate cookie by adding white chocolate chunks as well but the store was out! Double chocolate it is!
Vini’s coworker’s birthday is this weekend so I insisted on making some cookies for him to bring to work. I was told he likes chocolate, so here’s double the chocolate for ya! I hope they like it!
I played around with my chocolate chip recipe and came up with this. You might want to do a test on your first batch to see how you like them to come out. I did 11 minutes for the slightly chewier one and then 12 minutes was perfect for the completely cooked through ones. Test it out, have fun!
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Posted by: Maggie Ha
Category: baking, food, mmmm, recipes
Tags: baking, chocolate, cookies, cooking, food, recipe, recipes, snacks, sweets
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I always thought red velvet cake was overrated. Well up until I had Sprinkle’s red velvet cupcakes several years ago. I basically fell in love with the idea of red cake. I mean it’s just food coloring but it makes this chocolate-vanilla cake absolutely magical. And then there’s the cream cheese frosting… I generally only like cream cheese on a bagel but for some reason the red cake makes it so irresistible. YUM!!
So instead of cupcakes, I figured it was about time I tried a layered cake. Not too shabby! I had to cut down the top of one of them so that it fit nicely on top of each other but all in all, a success! It’s not exactly wedding cake perfect… definitely far from that… but it held together and tasted great. I even cheated and skipped the crumbing layer during the frosting!
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Posted by: Maggie Ha
Category: baking, food, mmmm, recipes
Tags: baking, chocolate, cooking, food, recipe, recipes, sweets
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Okay so “amazing” may be a little biased but it sure is OOEY GOOEY delicious! I have to be completely honest, this dish isn’t exactly good for you. In fact, it might cause a mild heart attack. WARNING: all of you on diets, stay away from this post! I even added more spinach, used low fat cheeses, used low fat sour cream and mayo but at the end of the day, you really can’t call this healthy food. Even if you eat it with just vegetables 
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Now for all of you who are willing to be a little dangerous, this dip will knock your socks off and have you coming back for more. I’ve altered the ratio of ingredients to attempt to make it a little healthier less bad for you. But feel free to play around with it and see if you come up with something better. I don’t have pepper jack cheese which is what I would normally use instead of mozzarella so mine was a little lacking in that pepper jack punch. I would definitely advise using pepper jack if you have some! Mozzarella is my favorite alternative because it’s stringy not so much cause it’s similar in taste at all. You can add more cheddar if you want to skip the pepper jack or mozzarella too.
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Posted by: Maggie Ha
Category: baking, food, mmmm, recipes
Tags: baking, cheese, cooking, food, recipe, recipes, seafood, snacks, spinach
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New England style clam chowder… I mean CHOWDA! Vini loooooooves clam chowder. We spent $8 on an imported can of Progresso Clam Chowder once… he was ecstatic, apparently well worth the $8. We have yet to see another can of Progresso at the fancy imported foods place so I figured it was time I tried to make this fabulous old favorite soup. Especially since it’s officially Winter now! Turns out, mine was better than Progresso, so I’m told.
This is the New England style clam chowder, which is the white kind with clams, bacon or salted pork and potatoes. Manhattan style has tomatoes in it so it’s red and has no cream or milk. Generally the Manhattan style is more of a brothy soup too. I’ve added carrots and celery to the traditional New England chowda because I like to sneak in veggies wherever I can . It’s a little less creamy than some versions I’ve seen at restaurants but again, no complaints from the taste tester so I think taste wise it was a success!
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Posted by: Maggie Ha
Category: food, mmmm, recipes, soups
Tags: cooking, food, recipe, recipes, seafood, soup
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Does that sound right? Sandwich Lemon Cookies with Jam? Jam with Lemon Cookies? Well either way, it’s pretty darn good! The best part is that you can eat the cookies as is, or make them into jam sammiches with your favorite jam. I tried these with every type of jam I could find in the house. I think my favorite is the Beerenberg’s Satsuma Plum jam. The mixed berries one works well also, it balances out the lemon really well. I also used some very sticky and unique tasting Burnt Fig Jam… that one was interesting but good. Vote goes to the plum jam with a close second to the apricot! Try it out and see which ones you like!
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Posted by: Maggie Ha
Category: baking, food, mmmm, recipes
Tags: baking, cookies, cooking, food, lemon, recipe, recipes, snacks, sweets
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