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Homemade Chips and Queso

Thanks to ConAgra Foods for sponsoring this post!

Homemade Chips and Queso
Homemade Chips and Queso

Diana (of The Chic Life fame) and I became friends while rooming together in San Francisco for the now-defunct FoodBuzz Conference. Apart from providing me a new forever-friend, a partner to explore Alcatraz, and an accomplice for a spontaneous photo shoot around the city in the leopard-print robes we secreted out of our hotel, Diana continues to provide me with inspiration. I especially love that every January she hosts Eat in Month over on her blog. I get tons of great tips for eating in every year she does it! But to be honest, I’m an eating-out junkie. So I have to start small.

ConAgra’s #GreatAmericanCookIn Challenge is my baby step! The idea is that you pledge to cook in for just one week during the month of May. Boost your meal planning, confidence, and creativity by challenging yourself to not spend a single dime eating out — for just one week!

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Baba Ghanoush

Thanks to PAM Cooking Spray for sponsoring this post.

Baba Ghanoush
Baba Ghanoush

I know, I know. You guys have probably made baba ghanoush a million times and I’m the ONLY one sitting over here in my corner being a fussy-pants about roasting an eggplant. I honestly don’t know that I’ve touched an eggplant before this, which is ridiculous considering how much I love Mediterranean food. And roasting things always leaves tons of caramelized goodness stuck to the baking sheet to try and scrub off. But hey, isn’t working with PAM Cooking Spray the perfect time to give that a try?

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Melty Falafel Quesadilla

Melty Falafel Quesadilla
Melty Falafel Quesadilla

Thanks to Girard’s Salad Dressing for sponsoring this post!

I’ve been in a salad dressing rut, so I was so excited to work with new-to-me Girard’s Salad Dressings to develop a recipe. It seems like so many options on the store shelves taste like straight-up vinegar, and I’m super bored with balsamic vinaigrette or blue cheese. Sometimes you just need a change, know what I mean? Girard’s had so many flavors that spoke to me right off the bat: Champagne, Caesar, Chinese Chicken Salad, Greek Feta Vinaigrette, Olde Venice Italian, Original French, Spinach Salad, Raspberry, Vin Rouge, White French and White Balsamic Vinaigrette.

I was especially up for trying the Greek Feta Vinaigrette because I figured it’d be the perfect base to create a new Mediterranean-inspired recipe, and I was so right! The tangy pepperoncini peppers and feta flavor notes in the dressing had me dreaming of pairing it with crispy falafel to create a fabulous side dish.

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Quick and Easy Chipotle Shrimp Cups

This post is sponsored by Philadelphia Cream Cheese.

Quick and Easy Chipotle Shrimp Cups -- perfect party finger foods and SO easy!
Quick and Easy Chipotle Shrimp Cups

My Life Story Group has met three times now and every time has been SO lovely — full of honesty, vulnerability, laughter, tears, love, and food. I told my life story at the first meeting (yikes) and since then Katie and Sandi have also both shared. What a group of amazing women, seriously. I love our casual get-togethers where, in addition to baring our souls, we play with each other’s pets, share Spanish language trivia (Sandi is Colombian and Katie spent a lot of time in Guatemala. And I’m a … good listener?), and EAT.

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