• Assorted flavors of roasted pumpkin seeds beside a jack-o-lantern

    roasted pumpkin seeds 3 easy ways;

    October 27, 2023bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Happy Halloween!  Need a recipe for all those pumpkin seeds you got from the guts of your pumpkin carving?  Well here are three easy and delicious variations!

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  • proscuitto burrata arugula pizza @ bestwithchocolate.com

    burrata proscuitto arugula pizza;

    March 23, 2018bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    A beautiful homemade pizza topped with salty prosciutto, soft and melty burrata, and a crisp arugula. Highly recommend my homemade rosemary red pepper pizza crust, but I promise this pizza is good on any dough!

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  • Crustless Veggie Quiche @ bestwithchocolate.com

    crustless vegetable quiche;

    May 26, 2017bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    A savory, healthful crustless quiche, packed with veggies and eggs, and sacrificing none of the flavor! – – It’s time.  We’ve set a date for our wedding, and while October 2018 is over a year away, I really need to do better about my eating habits.  I was doing pretty good there for a while with recipes like vegetarian samosa burritos (tcc recipe), and rainbow vegetable pad thai (tcc recipe), but I’ve been pretty lax the past few months with the stress and business of buying a house and traveling up to NJ to look at wedding venues in addition to normal life. So this was an attempt to…

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  • Chicken Cheddar Onion Panini @ bestwithchocolate.com

    cheddar chicken onion paninis; garlic mayo;

    August 10, 2016bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Up front: this recipe has nothing to do with me!  It came completely and utterly from T, and I’m not actually sure if he pulled the idea off the intermanets, or came up with this tasty concoction on his own!  My role in making this was twofold: 1) make the garlic mayo, and 2) grate the cheese.  That’s it!  My boy doeeees know how to take care of me in the food department.  He even made a take on roasted caesar broccoli swapping out the caesar dressing for Italian dressing!  T’s parents would be impressed–thinking about vegetables all by himself!   And everything turned…

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  • Mediterranean Pinwheels @bestwithchocolate.com

    mediterranean pinwheels;

    April 2, 2016bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    These Mediterranean pinwheels are a perfect, EASY appetizer.  This is one of our go-to’s because T likes them, and I like them, and he’s less likely to eat half the cheese and salami before they go in the oven.  Though maybe more likely to eat half of them coming out of the oven.  Plus there’s the added benefit of a short grocery list.   There are only 6 ingredients (I’d really say 5…if you don’t have olive oil, you’re doing the kitchen wrong), and all the steps are simple.  It’s even better to get some help, especially if you’re making these…

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