Baked Gnocchi

Baked Gnocchi

Everybody loves a baked pasta but this Baked Gnocchi takes it to a whole new level. Store bought gnocchi, homemade meaty spaghetti sauce and melty mozzarella all combine to create a simple yet delicious dinner. Who is ready for Spring? This girl. We had a little preview on Friday with a high of 64 degrees.

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Sausage Pancakes

Pancakes and sausage mingle together to make your new favorite breakfast (or dinner), Sausage Pancakes. Sausage is dolloped with pancake batter and cooked to make this all-in-one meal that is sure to be a family pleaser. Are you guys breakfast for dinner kind of people? I have to admit, the majority of the time that pancakes are

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Cheesy Sausage Stuffed Shells

Cheesy Sausage Stuffed Shells

These Cheesy Sausage Stuffed Shells are an easy, filling weeknight meal that will please the whole family. Make them ahead of time, freeze a batch or bake them right away for cheesy, gooey comfort food perfection. These past few weeks have been a blur guys. With Thanksgiving, its accompanying travel, illness after illness and little

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Simple Sausage Ragu over Polenta

For the most part, we are pretty simple people. Frills and fancy need not apply here. I’ve always thought of polenta as fancy and something we wouldn’t like so I’ve never tried it. I also don’t like grits and thought the texture would be very similar. Another mark against polenta.  But this beautiful little space

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Meat Lovers Skillet

If there is a major carnivore in your life, stop everything you are doing and make this. They will pretty much love you forever and request it on any occasion celebrating them. Trust me, I know from experience. This skillet is inspired by a diner that we used to frequent often when we lived in

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Pork and Turkey Breakfast Sausage Patties

Skip the store-bought stuff and make your own healthier breakfast sausage patties. Part pork and part turkey make these lighter but still full of flavor. We are big on breakfast for dinner around here or brinner as we like to call it. Sometimes it’s just comfort food at it’s finest and other times it’s the fact that

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Pizza Poppers {Football Food}

Football season is officially upon us and the boys in my house are pretty darn excited about it. As for me, I’m excited for fall and pumpkin desserts and apple picking but football doesn’t usually get me all abuzz. But I can’t complain too much because it means every Saturday this fall I will get to sleep

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Easy and Delicious Stromboli

I live in a house full of boys who love pizza. And I mean LOVE. Now don’t get me wrong, I like pizza as much as the next person but it can get a little old and boring sometimes (at least the kind of pizza Joel likes). So I like to mix up our pizza

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Sausage Stuffed Zucchini

During a recent visit to the Minneapolis Farmer’s Market I picked up some heirloom orange zucchini. It was our first visit but I will tell you it definitely won’t be our last! I loved the place but left a bit sad since it’s so far away and we don’t have anything comparable near us. But we

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