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Stuffed Peppers

Peppers have been on sale lately, and we had a some remainders of ground beef sale sitting in the freezer from a couple weeks back (10 pounds at $.99/lb!!), so I figured it was time to try out stuffed peppers. I've only ever made these while playing

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Chicken + Black Bean + Corn Taquitos

My no-sick streak since middle school finally ended at the beginning of February, as I was out with fever and non-stop mucus production. During that time, I binge-watched my fair share of grocery hauls and cooking videos on YouTube, which included a few on the taquito--a cousin to the taco

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Vegan Jackfruit Tacos

While making these, the SO popped in to take a peep and asked, "Oh, are we having chicken tacos tonight?" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... I've watched a ton of vegan cooking channels featuring jackfruit as shredded meat, so I had to see if

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Garlic Knots (aka the easiest bread ever)

To pair with the zucchini rollatini, I whipped up a batch of garlic knots from skinnytaste. I usually hate dealing with dough, but this was amazingly easy. Highly recommend. Ingredients * 1 cup flour + extra for dusting * 2 tsp baking powder * 1 cup fat free plain greek yogurt * garlic powder * salt

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Zucchini Rollatini

In their Vegetable-based Lasagna recipe, aeghrur, RZ, and Jimmy reminded me that I hadn't made any baked pasta dishes since the first meal I made at my current apartment. I wanted to take it a step further. They eliminated meat...what if I eliminate pasta? Back when I

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Skinny Chicken Tikka Masala

This recipe doesn't use fatty parts of chicken or excessive amounts of butter or cream, so apologies in advance. Ingredients * 1 tbsp butter * 1 onion * 2 cloves garlic * 1 knob ginger * 4oz greek yogurt * 1/2 cup milk of your choice * 1 can crushed tomato * 2 cubed boneless

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Aloo Curry

I'm sure my fellow posters can share the love for Taste of India that I have. It was one of my favorite places to eat on on campus because I loved the spices, but also because I was able to get such a ridiculous amount of food for

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Cheese Garlic Biscuits

Again for friendsgiving, we also made cheese garlic biscuits because cheese alllllll the things! This recipe sadly makes a small batch of only 12 biscuits that will be gone in no time at all. Ingredients * 1 3/4 cup flour * 1/2 tsp salt * 1/2 tsp pepper * 1/2

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Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes

On most days, part of my commute home from work includes stopping in at Trader Joe's to pick myself up with a free sample (my favorite so far has just been the simple combination of crackers and cheese, interestingly), and during the Thanksgiving season, one of the samples

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Greek Yogurt Bark

In the spirit of bulk season, I have been trying to incorporate more protein into my diet, but it's just so hard. Especially with the goal of 1 gram per 1 pound of bodyweight every day. My meals are usually chock-full of fresh veggies and a little bit

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Udon

It's gotten cold lately, and there are few things more warming than a nice bowl of noodle soup. The SO and I went out for pho earlier this week and had packed up the leftover soup to take home so that we could save the deliciousness for our

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Muesli

Shortly after graduation, the SO and I went on a cruise together (my first!), and one of my favorite parts of the trip was all the good food. Dinner was amazing because we would always go to the fancy dining location and eats tons because the waiter always gave us

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Breakfast Sandwiches ft. Homemade Biscuits

Inspired by our 10PM McDonald's date a few weeks ago, where the person sitting at the table next to us was devouring a few McMuffins, I woke up this morning with the mission to create breakfast sandwiches. Ingredients * 1.5 cup flour * 3 tbsp butter * 1/2 tbsp

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Black Bean Soup

This soup is my go-to whenever I eat at Panera Bread (which has happened maybe 5 times ever, hah), and I have been craving it for the past few years. For some reason, I never got around to making though because I never had onions on hand or just didn&

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Carbonara Pasta + extras

My SO loves parmigiano-reggiano, and when we were in school, he used to buy huge chunks of this cheese, eat a bit on the first day, and then leave it in the fridge for the rest of the semester to dry up. We recently acquired a big slice from Ye

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Applesauce Muffins

I fell off the face of Quantum Lion for a bit due to life happenings like job changes and moving across the country, but I'm back with new posts coming from a new kitchen! Before moving, I was in a hurry to try to use all of my

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Chocolate Lava Cake

There are few things better than the combination of melty cake and ice cream. The craving suddenly hit me. Ingredients * 1 egg * 1/8 tsp salt * 1 tbsp sugar + excess for coating the ramekin * 2 oz chocolate * 1 tbsp flour * 1 tbsp butter Methodology Preheat the oven to 425F. Measure

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1-Hour Dinner Rolls

The strongest and most recurring craving I get is one for carbs. So I made tiny portioned balls of carbs. Ingredients * 4 cups all-purpose flour * 1 tbsp yeast * 1.5 cups warm water * 2 tbsp sugar * 2 tbsp softened butter * 1 tsp salt * garlic powder, oregano, black pepper, or whatever

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Matcha Sugar Cookies

Since I had matcha on hand from making my iced matcha lattes, I decided to try making some sort of baked good to bring into work. We're on a huge cookie rush where I've just been bringing cookies in every Friday to ease our code releases

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Chocolate PB Protein Cookies

Chef Kubiac shared the legendary three-ingredient peanut butter cookie recipe earlier in April, which is one of my favorite cookies recipes of all time. This is a variation on that, with more added protein to help fill your craving for sweets during this cut season. Ingredients * 1 cup creamy peanut

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Microwave Mochi

There are days when I crave something soft, chewy, and only slightly sweet. Mochi is the only thing that fits. Ingredients * 1/2 cup sugar (more if you prefer your mochi sweet) * 1.5 cup mochiko * 1.5 cup water * corn starch Methodology Toss the sugar, mochiko, and water together

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Tuna Kimbap

This dish makes me think of middle school and high school because I had a friend whose mother would sometimes pack her kimbap for lunch, and then another friend and I would always be hounding over it, trying to get a piece. It's like a sushi roll, but

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Sugar-free Blueberry Bars

We're back with another blueberry dessert. I'm a big believer in retrying foods that you might not have liked the last time you had it every once in a while, so today I'm giving stevia another shot. The first time I had it was

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Shrimp Cabbage Rolls

Cabbage was $0.17/pound this week, so I decided to pick up a head. Usually, I just like to chop it up and stir-fry it with some salt and pepper, but today I decided to pay homage to one of the greatest chefs of our time--Cooking Mama. This was

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Peanut Butter Kale Noodles

Everyone I share this recipe with always reacts the same way with a "What?!! Is that even good?" If you're a fan of cold sesame noodles, it's basically the same thing, but with fewer variety of ingredients and more kale. I love noodles and