PHOTO CREDITS: What's Good at Trader Joe's?

I don't know about you, but I can eat potatoes with any meal. Whole, diced, sliced, whipped, you name it. They can be as fancy or as casual as you'd like, and in of themselves they can be an entire meal (baked potato bar, anyone?).  Because of this, sometimes I like to make oven roasted potatoes because they are THAT GOOD with things like eggs, meats, and even cinnamon rolls and quick breads. 

My favorite way to make them has been using this breakfas...
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Now that the weather is cooling down, I couldn't resist trying out this yummy gluten-free, crustless quiche recipe I came across today here.  I haven't posted a new blog in a while, so I thought it was more than time to do so.

Today's breakfast was easy to whip up, because I had mostly everything on-hand - and I only made one serving so that I could enjoy it all by my lonesome.  However, in the absence of fresh basil, I substituted Italian seasoning, and it was still very good!  Isn't it prett...
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After playing around with a few Pinterest recipes, I created this tasty little breakfast bake that you can easily make in larger quantities in order to fit into a 9x13 baking dish.  For this recipe, and because I am the only one who likes to eat it, I made it as a single-serving size, which works well if you want to treat yourself to something special any day of the week.

I usually like to add red peppers and bacon, but this time around I didn't have either, so I made it rather basic.  To make...
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Crazy title, right??  Well, this morning I decided to test out a fun way of making fried eggs without using a pan.  It all started when last month I came upon this pin on Pinterest: 23 Things You Can Cook in a Waffle Iron, and was intrigued.  And then I found this recipe for making mashed potato waffles and was blown away by how tasty and easy they were to make!  So today, I just had to cook some fried eggs.  Why not?

To get started, I took out my handy-dandy waffle iron, sprayed it, and let i...
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