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Everything. Pasta and white beans with garlic-rosemary oil. If you have a thing for chocolate, the world is your oyster.

pasta and white beans with garlic-rosemary oil

On this very site, 86 of the just over 800 recipes boast a significant chocolate component and entire sections of bookstores will be happy to fill in any cravings I missed. If you have a thing for bacon, the internet would be overjoyed to find you places to put it, zillions, even, although I’d proceed with caution before auditioning a couple. But if you have a thing for something slightly less of a prom king/queen ingredient, say, tiny white beans, well, it can be tough.

It’s not there are no uses for them, it’s just that when you’re very much in love, there are never enough ways to be together. So tell me: What are you favorite uses for beans outside the ever-popular realm of chili, tacos, soup and salad? The result is a great pasta for this time of year, deeply comforting and hearty but not overly decadent. Pasta and White Beans with Sizzling Garlic-Rosemary Oil Adapted, barely, from Sara Jenkins via Bon Appetit. Weekly Mix: Baking with Jams, Jellies, and Preserves  Over the last couple of weeks, I baked these lovely Raspberry Coconut Oat Bars and a new favorite Italian Jam Crostata.

Weekly Mix: Baking with Jams, Jellies, and Preserves 

Both of those are made with some of my favorite shortcut ingredients – jams and preserves. Jams, jellies, and preserves are a great way to bake with a little fruit when you’re right in the middle of winter with limited access to fresh berries and other warm weather fruits. Of course, I seem to bake with them year-round! As I looked through my Recipe Index, I realized that preserves and jams and jellies make frequent appearances here on BoB. You know, that might explain the constant overwhelming supply I always seem to have in my refrigerator. Preserves and such really lend themselves well to baking bars. This beautiful Black Cherry Sour Cream Coffee Cake is a fabulous anytime treat, from breakfast to a late-night snack. I have probably baked these Raspberry Cream Cheese Buns more than anything else on this blog.

Rhubarb Ice Cream with Oatmeal Shortbread. Intro It was Monday afternoon and I was pacing my living room.

Rhubarb Ice Cream with Oatmeal Shortbread

My dear friend and cooking class partner, Julie, arrived to watch our boys while my husband and I headed off to the 20 week ultrasound. Those of you who have been down this road before know that this is probably the best appointment there is during pregnancy. And for us it was especially important because, most likely this is our last little bundle and I was bursting at the seams to find out the sex. Really, I’ve been quite a bear to live with. I checked in for my appointment and continued to pace. Well, dear blog readers, I am so completely thrilled to say, “BRING ON THE PINK!! It's Clear Skies Ahead with This Jello. Super Bowl dessert cocktail. Football fans will cheer when you serve this frosty dessert cocktail at your Super Bowl party.

Super Bowl dessert cocktail

Pour into glasses with yard lines and top them off with goal-post straws. First-and-ten drinking games, anyone? Super Bowl dessert cocktail Yields approximately 40 ounces Ingredients: 1 cup Midori liqueur1/2 cup white rum2 cups ice4 cups lime sherbet 2 cups spinach leaves (You will not taste the spinach at all. Directions: Blend all ingredients together in a mixer until smooth. Field goal straws Supplies: Instructions: Cut two bendable straws and insert one end into the other, forming the uprights and crossbar. Create hole in crossbar. 30 Amazing Sliders For Your Super Bowl Party.

Ramen Hacks: 30+ Easy Ways to Upgrade Your Instant Noodles. SLIDESHOW: Ramen Hacks: 30+ Easy Ways to Upgrade Your Instant Noodles [Photographs: J.

Ramen Hacks: 30+ Easy Ways to Upgrade Your Instant Noodles

Kenji Lopez-Alt] Ramen in the U.S. has come a long way. Once known only in its 10-for-a-dollar instant-lunch form—a staple of offices and dorm rooms all around the '80s and '90s—high-end real ramen shops are springing up left and right on both coasts and everywhere in between. Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries. Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries These cheesecake stuffed strawberries are the perfect dessert treat!

Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries

Can I just say that I have died and gone to heaven. Cheesecake stuffed strawberries….how have I not made these before?! I’m serious. They are amazing! Making up the filling was a breeze too. Cookies and Cream Popcorn. I feel like this popcorn is just out of control.

Cookies and Cream Popcorn

Am I right? I recently wandered past a gourmet popcorn shop, (and thank goodness for my jeans I didn’t go in) and my eye’s started bugging out when I saw cookies and cream popcorn. I freaking love cookies and cream ice cream and I love any kind of sweet popcorn, so what more could I ask for? A perfect combination. Plus the kids who hung out with me in the kitchen all day today went BONKERS for this. 100 Things to Do with a Banana. How many times has someone spotted excess, overripe or just unused bananas in your kitchen and said, “uh-oh, looks like it’s time to make banana bread!”

100 Things to Do with a Banana

— as if the only things possible to do with a banana are eat it or turn it into bread? Well we say “no more.” With no particular offense meant to anyone’s banana bread recipe, we believe the humble banana is in fact as versatile as bacon or eggs, and we’ve got the internets to prove it. Here’s our carefully curated list of 100 Things to Do with a Banana (not including banana bread). Yes, we’ve got plenty of banana breakfasts and banana desserts, but how about some banana curry, banana soup or a banana martini? Click on the photos for full recipes. From Bananas to Apples, 100 things to do with apples: Sponsored Content.

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