Garden Fresh Tomato Soup.

I do believe it's common knowledge that one of the best comfort foods is: tomato soup (it's even better with a grilled cheese sandwich)! I decided to try my hand at making some. I chopped lots and lots of local tomatoes and boiled them with onions, garlic, chicken broth, and a ton of spices.

Then, of course, I pureed it! It smelled so good; I could hardly wait!

It needed a grilled cheese, though, and cream! For all you "healthy" folk, you can just pass on the cream. :) It tastes just as amazing and is a deeper red.

I usually make a huge pot of this soup because it always disappears in one sitting! Good thing it's both delicious and nutritious!

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Double Layer Pumpkin Cheesecake.

In honor of Thanksgiving (albeit a little late), I have to at least post one pumpkin food! It's a little late, but better late than never! Or so the saying goes. Usually, I make a pumpkin pie, but I decided to combine pumpkin with one of my favorite desserts: cheesecake! It was so creamy and delicious.

Sorry that I didn't take a picture of a slice so you could see the layers. It was gone before I could even think of grabbing my camera!

 Annnnd, here's just some Thanksgiving food because it's just so yummy. Happy belated Thanksgiving!

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Red Velvet Cupcakes.

I make this recipe from time to time.

Red velvet cupcakes. This is the best recipe I've ever encountered. It's very dense and rich (which is why I made cupcakes!).

Of course, you can't have a red velvet anything without cream cheese icing! This is homemade icing, as well.

Yummy with a glass of milk.

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Sugarless Banana Oatmeal Cookies.

I got this recipe from Rachel at cooks.com.

Definitely a cookie to turn to when I need to indulge but cannot afford the calories! I used really ripe bananas so the cookies could be as sweet as possible. :)

The texture is not like a "normal" cookie, but that's okay. I've tried these with chocolate chips as well; they're really good!

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Chicken Pot Pie.

I love chicken pot pie, so I recently made some for my friend and me. I'd wanted to make chicken pot pie for a very long time but never got around to it. Now that I have a great recipe, I can't seem to stop making it!

I made a pretty flower pattern out of the excess dough. :D

 

As you can probably tell, these are two different pies, two different crusts. Oh, well. Same filling recipe, although I like the crust in the first picture better, both by taste and look.

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Sugar Cookie Buttons.

I got inspiration from Bakerella to make button cookies! Hers are peanut butter, but since I was making them for a birthday and didn't know if anyone was allergic to peanut products, I made sugar cookie dough.

To make the button shape, I pressed the centers with a bottle cap and punched holes with a straw.

 They looked a little plain - especially for a child's birthday party, so I took it a step further. Bakerella dipped her cookies in chocolate. Since mine are sugar cookies, I thought that might be a bit too rich. So I made some runny blue icing and dipped the cookies in them

Voila! They tasted pretty good, too.

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Purple Sweet Potato Pie.

My mother makes sweet potato pie - the one that you all know. She also eats purple sweet potatoes. With those two pieces of knowledge, I came up with the idea of making a purple sweet potato pie! This picture was taken before I put it in the oven.

 

And this was it after. I'd wanted to take a picture of the whole pie, but I wasn't home when it was finished, and someone had already cut a slice! Oh, well.

It was so good that it didn't even last a day! Best part? The potatoes were so sweet by themselves that I put no added sugar! None! I brought some with me for lunch at school. What a great lunch.

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Blueberry Cake.

Actually, it's a red velvet cake - without the red dye since I used it all up with the last two red velvet cakes I did. :( It still tasted amazing. My family has tons of blueberries, enough to last us a year. No shortage, whatsoever. I saw this picture on Pinterest and decided to gather inspiration from it.

This is how it turned out (forgive the picture of my boyfriend in the back):

Quite scrumptious, I must say. Some more pictures:

I love macro shots.

Just as I have been inspired, I hope I inspire you!

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Blue Crab.

All right, I didn't make this, obviously (but I did make the cookies in the background!). But I had this for dinner last night. Although it's really red, it is, in fact, called a blue crab. It seems that the smaller the crab, the better the meat. Or maybe that's just my opinion...

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Applesauce.

Again, here are some apples. I peeled, cored, and cut about 12 gala apples (but applesauce is the best when you mix a variety of apples). Thank God for the peeler! The first time I made applesauce, I did it with a knife! Took me hours.

Then, I put them in a pot to simmer with water and spices for a little while.

Lastly, I crush them with the potato smasher thing.

Yum. This definitely beats store bought applesauce. The best part is, you can control the sugar content! I put little to no sugar in mine, especially when there are no Granny Smiths involved.

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Apple Pie.

My mother bought this huge box of apples last May, and after I sorted them out, this is what I came up with. Eight Granny Smith apples + two crusts = two very scrumptious apple pies. They were gone in two days. The further has no sauce on top because I ran out (the recipe was only supposed to be one pie, but the apples were really big) by putting all of it on one pie. Well, they both still tasted amazing.

  

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Quick and Crusty French Baguettes.

This recipe is thanks to Brooke. I wanted something to go with my butter! And these loaves took less than an hour to make.
Before baking:

 

And this is after:

I didn't prefer the taste too much, but my sister did! The texture was pretty good - crusty as the description said! They went great with the butter.

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Homemade Butter.

Thanks to Lindsey from http://morefunwithanapron.blogspot.com/, I've made butter out of heavy cream and a mixer!

 It took about 5 minutes...much better than a butter churn, for sure!

 When it started to curdle, the buttermilk started splattering everywhere.

 The butter separated from the buttermilk quite nicely!

 The finished product. And of course, I kept the buttermilk. :D I opted out of putting salt or anything in my butter; I'll let it speak for itself. Half a cup of butter for less than 80 cents! Not half bad.

 

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Chocolate Swirl Cheesecake.

One slice is 500 - 1000 calories each. 0.o But it's worth every single pound you may gain.

 My slice.

 Doesn't that look scrumptious? I'll even tell you a little secret...I accidentally left out two sticks of butter, and it was still perfect! How's that for calorie cutdown?

 

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Portobello Mushroom Burger.

 

I might as well start off with my present profile picture. This is also my most recent endeavor; I made it on the 21st of June. I'd always wanted to try this recipe but never had all the ingredients at once! Balsamic vinegar, olive oil, garlic, oregano, basil, burger veggies, whole wheat bun, provolone cheese, and, of course, portobello mushroom! I took my first bite and thought, MAN. Where have I been all my life? It's definitely something I will make again in the near future.

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Greetings!

Hi, everyone! Welcome to my food blog. This is more of a description blog to make your mouths water and your stomachs grumble! The food I post is not necessarily what I ate that day, but it is all homemade and made by yours truly unless I state otherwise! I may share some of the recipes from time to time; we'll see how this blog sets off first.


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