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Warm Bourbon Spinach Salad Recipe with Bacon & Avocado

Feb 8, 2013

Warm Bourbon Spinach Salad Recipe with Roasted Red Peppers

Celebrate Mardi Gras with a spinach salad tossed with a bourbon dressing, and topped with avocado and bacon. If you can’t be at Mardi Gras in person, you might as well douse your salad in bourbon. Now, I know this isn’t traditional Mardi Gras-esque food. It’s not gumbo, jambalaya or etouffée, and there’s not even [...]

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Fresh Green Beans with Bacon, Mushrooms & Herbs Recipe

Nov 14, 2012

Fresh green beans are tossed with crispy bacon, sauteed mushrooms, shallots and fresh herbs. This is a wonderful, bright side for your Thanksgiving feast. This post is a two-fer. If you are looking for a side dish for your Thanksgiving feast, then these fresh green beans will do the trick. Bacon, mushrooms, shallots and fresh [...]

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Mashed Potatoes Recipe with Bacon & Caramelized Onions

Nov 12, 2012

Mashed Potatoes with Bacon & Caramelized Onions by Cookin

This addictive Thanksgiving side dish is filled with creamy (but low-fat) mashed potatoes, salty and crispy bacon and sweet caramelized onions. I’m a traditionalist, from the top of my head to the tip of my toes. That means that I typically don’t want anyone to mess with my holiday side dishes. Just give me a [...]

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French Onion & Endive Soup Recipe with Pancetta

Feb 29, 2012

Before jumping into the French Onion & Endive Soup recipe (with my favorite pairing of pancetta), I want to sincerely thank each and every one of you who left comments and sent me emails and tweets after I posted My Health & Weight Loss Journey: Before & After Photos. Your support and kind comments, as [...]

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Frittata Recipe with Pancetta, Mushrooms & Roasted Garlic

Feb 17, 2012

After preparing extra garlic for my How to: Roast Garlic post last week, I have been adding the flavorful little jewels to every pasta sauce, sandwich and pizza that crosses my path. Even eggs weren’t safe. As if pancetta and mushrooms weren’t enough to bump up the flavor of a simple frittata, I chopped up [...]

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Onion & Bacon Marmalade Recipe

Dec 28, 2011

One can never have too many appetizer and hors d’oeuvres recipes. At least that’s how my mind works. I would much rather sit down to a tableful of many little dishes than a large meal of one meat, one carb and one vegetable. This is one of the many reasons that I am determined to [...]

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Make-Ahead Baked Eggs with Bacon, Mushrooms & Sage Recipe

Dec 16, 2011

Christmas is just over a week away and I am in denial about my state of panic. Presents to buy, holiday meals to plan, house to clean, Christmas tree to decorate…breathe….breathe. One thing I can count on is that I will be making The Pioneer Woman’s Maple-Glazed Cinnamon Rolls for Christmas morning, as we do [...]

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Chicken Spinach Salad Recipe with Warm Bacon-Artichoke Dressing

Jul 14, 2011

What the heck is a girl from Canada doing in a place where the thermometer creeps up into the hundreds on the hottest of summer days? This is the time of year when I take full control of the air-conditioner and threaten anyone that dares to turn it off or even nudge it upwards one [...]

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Tortellini Pasta Salad with Bacon, Broccoli & Basil Recipe

Jun 14, 2011

One of the first things I made on my own after leaving the comfort of my parents’ kitchen was my mum’s pasta salad. Growing up, it was a staple on the patio table during the summertime. Bowtie pasta, salmon, capers and red bell peppers, tossed in a mayonnaise-based dressing, made up the salad that I [...]

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