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Charcuterie Stuffed Calzone

May 16, 2016 by Steph Powers Leave a Comment

All your charcuterie board favorites stuffed inside a calzone!

All your charcuterie board favorites are stuffed inside this Charcuterie Stuffed Calzone! Around here we love "build your own" nights. Build your own tacos, build your own pizza, build your own salad, and build your own baked potatoes are among our favorite themes for dinners with friends because they're flexible for any taste or dietary restrictions.  We also love a great charcuterie board ...

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Bread, Gluten-Free, Meat, Party, Pizza, Recipes, Simple, Simple Hospitality, Snacks Tagged With: build your own, calzone, charcuterie, marinara, mozzarella, pizza

Honey Lime Fruit Salad

May 2, 2016 by Steph Powers 1 Comment

This is the best fruit salad I have ever eaten! Honey Lime Fruit Salad

This Honey Lime Fruit Salad is the best fruit salad I have ever eaten!  Last weekend we had a couple friends from Minneapolis stay with us while they were in town for a conference. My friend Kate is pretty much a flavor wizard in the kitchen and usually cooks like I do by taking stock of the pantry and whipping up something pretty amazing. (She's the same Kate who originally taught me what ...

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Gluten-Free, Recipes, Salads, Sides, Simple, Snacks, Sweets, Vegetarian Tagged With: blackberries, fruit, fruit salad, honey, lime

Slow Cooker Red Chicken Enchiladas + 40 of the Best Cinco De Mayo Recipes!

April 27, 2016 by Steph Powers 22 Comments

Nothing beats homemade enchiladas! Slow Cooker Red Chicken Enchiladas

Nothing beats homemade enchiladas! Make the filling for these Slow Cooker Red Chicken Enchiladas in your crock pot to save time!  Raise your hand if you love enchiladas!! Growing up in Texas, we ate a LOT of enchiladas. My sister always loved cheese enchiladas and my mom always ordered the spinach and mushroom enchiladas, but my favorites have to be traditional chicken enchiladas with red ...

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Filed Under: Chicken, Gluten-Free, Meat, Recipes, Slow Cooker, TexMex Tagged With: chicken enchiladas, cinco de mayo, enchiladas, mexican food, red sauce

Traditional Homemade Flour Tortillas

April 25, 2016 by Steph Powers 21 Comments

Traditional Homemade Flour Tortillas - so much better than store bought! Cinco de Mayo is coming! Are you ready? My home in Denver is an official #TexMexEmbassy, so we are ALWAYS ready with plenty of Mexican and Tex-Mex food. In recent years I've resorted to buying tortillas, but there really isn't anything that beats a homemade flour tortilla!  Given a large enough supply of cheese, I ...

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Filed Under: Bread, Recipes, Sides, Simple, Snacks, TexMex, Vegetarian

Italian Turkey Meatball Muffins

April 18, 2016 by Steph Powers Leave a Comment

Italian Turkey Meatball Muffins - Mini meatloaves that taste like Italian meatballs!

Italian Turkey Meatball Muffins - mini meatloaves that taste like Italian meatballs! It has long been our family tradition to under-cook meatloaf. We tried a number of different recipes, different pans, different cook times. You name it, and we probably tried it. But every time we would end up thinking the meatloaf was done, pull it out, slice it up, and find out that the center was still bright ...

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Filed Under: Gluten-Free, Meat, Recipes, Simple Tagged With: ground turkey, italian, meatballs, meatloaf, stuffing

Sriracha Kettle Corn

April 11, 2016 by Steph Powers 6 Comments

This Sriracha Kettle Corn popcorn is sweet, spicy, smokey, salty, and crunchy all in one bite! You won't be able to stop shoveling it into your face!    It feels so good to be back in the swing of things and bringing you a new recipe this morning! You can see last week's post for an update about where I've been the past month. Today's recipe is one I'm super excited about - Sriracha ...

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Gluten-Free, Recipes, Simple, Snacks, Sweets, TexMex Tagged With: kettle corn, popcorn, spicy, Sriracha

8 Tips For Cooking For Gluten-free Friends // Simple Hospitality

April 6, 2016 by Steph Powers 1 Comment

Hello, hello! It's been a while since I've been around this corner of the web, so I wanted to let you know why I've been gone. I don't talk too much about my personal life that isn't related to the dishes I'm creating and sharing, but I've mentioned a couple times here that we've been trying to get pregnant for almost 3 years. In January, we started on a new infertility treatment plan and I got ...

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Filed Under: Gluten-Free, Simple Hospitality Tagged With: entertaining, gluten-free, guest post, simple hospitality

Enter to Win a $500 Hello Fresh Giveaway!

March 14, 2016 by Steph Powers 2 Comments

Good morning! One of my goals this year was to be able to offer more giveaways for y'all here on the blog, so I'm excited to have another giveaway to share! This week I've teamed up with some of my favorite food bloggers to offer you a chance to win $500 of Hello Fresh! (That would buy enough Hello Fresh meals to feed a family of four 3X a week for a whole month!) I haven't been able to ...

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One Pan Hawaiian Sloppy Joes + A KitchenAid Mixer Giveaway!!

March 7, 2016 by Steph Powers 2 Comments

This is my go-to meal for a cheap, healthy, delicious, and quick dinner for a crowd.

I'm sharing a quick and yummy recipe for One Pan Hawaiian Sloppy Joes and bringing you a huge KitchenAid Mixer giveaway with some of my Foodie BFFs! Enter at the bottom of the post!!   Good morning!! Last week was a crazy and emotional week for us around here. I'm not sure I'm ready to talk about what happened yet here on the blog, but it will suffice to say that infertility sucks, and ...

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Filed Under: Gluten-Free, Meat, Recipes, Simple Tagged With: feed a crowd, giveaway, ground turkey, Hawaiian rolls, kitchenaid, peppers, shallots, sloppy joes, Worcestershire sauce

On Meal Plans and Jellyfish //Currently Sustaining Us

February 26, 2016 by Steph Powers 1 Comment

This Week's Meal Plan Monday: Individual Huevos Rancheros from Lauren Caris Cooks (gf, vegetarian) Tuesday: The Best Chili from Lavender and Macarons (gf) Wednesday: Easy Tofu Lettuce Wraps from The Wetherills Say I Do (gf, vegetarian, vegan) Thursday: Leftovers. Friday: Pizza Night! My Perfect Pizza Dough (vegetarian) Saturday: Date Night - eat ...

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Filed Under: Currently Sustaining Us, Meal Plan Monday, Photography Tagged With: currently, jellyfish, meal plan, photography

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