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Appies and Sides

These recipes are the perfect start to a meal, a mid day snack, happy hour, or dinner accompaniment.

Tomato and Pecorino Puffs

Tomato and Pecorino Puffs

Tomato and Pecorino puffs are a fancy way of saying a circular piece of puff pastry with tomato and cheese on it. But however you say it, it tastes delicious and makes you look like the fanciest of chefs. I like this recipe for two 

Grilled Peach Salad with Caesar-Poppy Seed Dressing

Grilled Peach Salad with Caesar-Poppy Seed Dressing

Sorry salads, I’m really just here for the dressing. Okay maybe in this case the grilled peaches too. But really who wants to eat plain leafy greens, when they are clearly calling out to be doused in a delicious coating of sweet, sour, creamy. Anything 

Buffalo Chicken Egg Rolls

Buffalo Chicken Egg Rolls

Air Fried Buffalo Chicken Egg Rolls are the fusion appetizer/snack/dinner you didn’t think you needed. But if you go down to the recipe and try them out you will see why you did. This is really another recipe in my Emily wants comfort food but 

Parsley Pesto with Grilled Vegetables

Parsley Pesto with Grilled Vegetables

Pesto always seemed like the fancy pasta choice at a restaurant. Or to add an extra flourish to a pizza. Yet for me being lactose intolerant I always had to shy away from picking anything with pesto-despite it’s green appearance it traditionally contains Parmesan cheese. 

Air Fryer Coconut Shrimp with Mango Dip

Air Fryer Coconut Shrimp with Mango Dip

Coconut Shrimp for me is synonymous with two things: the frozen section and happy hour at many patio restaurants. Although I love them, both scenarios often leave me feeling drenched in oil. I can only have a few before the fat content begs me to 

Roasted Beet Hummus

Roasted Beet Hummus

I want to preface this roasted beet hummus recipe by saying it is tahini free. Mostly because I don’t love the taste of it and secondly because I don’t use it enough in my every day cooking to have it as part of my pantry 

Crispy Chicken Wings

Crispy Chicken Wings

Sunday. A day for most people for rest, chores, and sleeping in. For me growing up Sundays were often associated with two things: the Simpsons and NFL. While my mum preferred us watching one over the other (you guess which), it was a time to 

Indian Chicken Curry Bites

Indian Chicken Curry Bites

Typically E is the creative one and is able to come up with all the interesting and witty dialogue you are so accustomed to reading. So, when she told me it was my turn to write – I was worried. How to start, what to 

Nectarine Crostini

Nectarine Crostini

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Hello World! I’m back. I know some of you have been wondering- where in the world did Endive and Indulge go? It’s been forever since she’s posted. And who the heck is Home Cooked for ME?? Well the short answer