what jen does

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Tag: Recipe

  • Sage and parmesan Meatballs
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    Sage and parmesan Meatballs

    One of my all-time favorite “just got home from work and I’m starving” meals is just meatballs. Not meatballs with sauce. Not meatballs with pasta. Just meatballs in a dish with a little parmesan and a dash of soy sauce. I’m not even kidding. I normally have a batch of meatballs in the freezer just…

  • Butternut squash, bacon and sage quiche
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    Butternut squash, bacon and sage quiche

    It’s been about a lifetime since I made a quiche – or so it feels. Each time I’m always pleasantly surprised at how easy these gems come together. Quiche is pretty much impossible to mess up. You can seemingly put anything you want in as well …. which helps to reduce kitchen waste. While those…

  • butternut squash & kale with brown butter fried sage
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    butternut squash & kale with brown butter fried sage

    I might be turning into a broken record here… but I’m still going to say it. When I think about picking recipes to cook over the weekend, I think about what has the potential to taste good three days later. This absolutely limits what I end up cooking. Breaded chicken or fish? Sorry, that won’t…

  • honey balsamic baked chicken
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    honey balsamic baked chicken

    While I was always in a quest for good leftover meals, this challenge means even more to me now. I love things that are seemingly well balanced meals and re-heat in 90 seconds. I don’t get home until after 7:30 and there is no sense in even imagining a world where I’m cooking a meal…

  • gingerbread scones with maple glaze
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    gingerbread scones with maple glaze

    I’d like to introduce you to a wonderful scone variety – unfortunately, he’s appropriate for about as long as the Little Debbie Christmas Tree cakes are. Meet the Gingerbread scone. While he would taste the same all year long, he tastes best probably November to New Years Eve. Maybe one weekend into the month of…

  • Braised Chicken with Onions, Rosemary and Sage
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    Braised Chicken with Onions, Rosemary and Sage

    If there were 3 things that made living in the burbs best, they would be: more farms, more people willing to eat my cooking, and more ocean. All three are rather important to me – and I managed to do all of them this past weekend. Jackpot.   I spent the weekend going to various…

  • Brussel sprout latkes with basil aioli
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    Brussel sprout latkes with basil aioli

     With the move behind us, I was excited and maybe a little anxious to get in the kitchen and make my first meal. Technically my first meals were frozen pizzas, takeout chicken fingers, and the inaugural box of Kraft Mac and Cheese… but let’s not split hairs. I’ve always wanted to cook seasonally and try…

  • Homemade Popcorn!
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    Homemade Popcorn!

    When we were growing up, we had this air-popper for making popcorn. I only ever remember using it when we had a babysitter. There was this little tiny dish for melting butter that fit in the top. I have absolutely no idea how we never lost that dish. I feel like there were some hiccups…

  • sausage, spinach & artichoke lasagna
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    sausage, spinach & artichoke lasagna

    One of my favorite things to do is competitively use as many ingredients in my cabinets as possible. This lasagna is the epitome of that. The only thing that I had to buy was the ricotta. In hindsight, maybe not as much of a win that I now have to clean this pan… but still.…

  • hashbrown life
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    hashbrown life

    I’ll start by saying that I know this picture isn’t amazing. But trust me, the meal itself is amazing. I like my onions crispy and burned and that just doesn’t ever photography well. So the next month’s worth of posts will probably all have some flavor of “moving”… including posts related to food. But this…