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Apple Streusel Cheesecake Pockets
Patio parties are my fave. Just calling something a “patio party” immediately connotes a casual, relaxing vibe. It makes you think of comfy clothes, a breeze, great conversations, lots of sunshine, and lots of finger foods. We gave up a giant wraparound balcony when we left Raleigh, and our San Diego patio is a postage stamp in comparison, but who said patio parties have to actually BE ON A PATIO?
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Caramelized Pineapple Cheesecake Cups
I may have mentioned this a thousand times before, but moving across the country is pretty stressful, as it turns out. And stress makes being nice to others, particularly certain husbands, pretty difficult, as it turns out. One day you’re in love and the next you’re duct taping all of his clothes into a giant ball because if he’s not going to help you pack you’re not going to waste a perfectly good box on him, so there.
Not that I speak from experience or anything.
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Fish Taco Bites
When this recipe pops up in your inbox, Mike and I will (hopefully) be knee-deep in our cross-country trek to our new home in San Diego! I would love to paint a Norman Rockwellian portrait for you of us clambering down Route 66 sipping sodas with crushed ice and blasting Prince tunes, but honestly we’ve probably spent the last 48 hours hot, bored, paranoid about the dog and turtle, and slowly beginning to hate each other. ROAD TRIPS ARE FUN. Someone just needs to convince my husband of that.
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Quick and Easy Cherry Cheesecake Pie Bites
I’m thinking about starting a book club. I feel like book clubs are one of those things you shouldn’t need to start. Like, aren’t there 800,000 book clubs in the world? Shouldn’t I just be able to find a group of like-minded individuals already organized in book-club form and join in? But those of you who are miraculously a part of a book club know exactly why that’s not possible. It’s because book clubs are guarded like Fort Knox.
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Easy Raspberry Cheesecake Double-Date Parfaits
Mike and I are always trying to be better about making friends. We’re two devoted introverts: I have an impressive dose of social anxiety and he just doesn’t especially put himself out there. But we both do well in smallish, casual get-togethers. Low-stress environment, simple food, no crazy cleaning frenzies beforehand. My latest idea for one of these is a homemade double-date night: one couple brings drinks and apps, the other provides dinner and dessert, and both play board games while ignoring the pile of laundry in the corner because WE’RE BEING CASUAL, Y’ALL. Or that’s the plan anyway.
