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Okay, this was SO much easier than I thought it would be! And SO much more delicious than I expected too, I couldn’t stop eating them! Check out the simple instructions and photos from my first fry cooking experience!

Ingredients

- Potatoes (1 or 2 potatoes per serving depending on the size of your potatoes)
- Vegetable Oil (2 to 4 cups of oil depending on how many servings you are making) Overcrowding your fries will cause breakage and uneven cooking. To use less oil, prepare in several batches.
- Salt

Directions

- Wash and peel potatoes
- Slice potatoes into strips
- Drop potato strips into 375 degree oil
- Fry until golden brown (about 5 to 10 minutes)
- Remove from pot and drain on paper towels or paper bag
- Sprinkle with salt
- Put fries in the oven to keep warm while the next batch is frying
- Serve immediately

(as you can see a lot of ours broke into little pieces… but they still tasted amazing!)

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There are plenty of whiskey drinks out there for St. Patrick’s Day, so today I want to share a mojito recipe with you! Since this drink features three green ingredients it is delicious and festive! It’s also perfect for this weather that seems to be warming up. Hope you enjoy!

Ingredients: mint, lime, cucumber, simple syrup, crushed ice, light rum, club soda

Directions: (this recipe serves 1)

- Muddle 6 mint leaves in the bottom of a glass
- Cut lime into quarters
- Squeeze three quarters into glass and drop them in (save one quarter for garnish)
- Cut cucumber into thin slices and drop 3 slices into glass (save one slice for garnish)
- Add 2 tablespoons of simple syrup
- Fill the glass with crushed ice
- Add 1 (or 2) shots of light rum
- top off with club soda
- garnish glass with 1 lime quarter and 1 cucumber slice

You can also make a virgin mojito which is just as delicious, just leave out the rum!

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My sister and I recently ate at Stanley Restaurant, a cute little place in Jackson Square, New Orleans. We decided to share the Bananas Foster French Toast and the Breaux Bridge Benedict. They split the dishes for us and they were both SO amazing! I’d like to visit Chef Scott Boswell’s fine-dining counterpart, Stella! next.

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Mix solid white albacore tuna fish with a small amount of mayonnaise. Place a spoonful of mixed tuna onto a stone ground wheat cracker. Top with a wedge of tomato, grated parmesan cheese, fresh chopped basil, salt & pepper and you have yourself a yummy afternoon snack!

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These cinnamon apple chips may be the best thing I have ever made! The light dusting of cinnamon and sugar over the fresh apples makes this the perfect Fall sweet snack with some hot chocolate or cider.

Ingredients: 1/4 cup confectioners’ sugar, 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon and 2 large apples. I used apples from the orchard when I went apple picking!
Directions: Preheat oven to 250°. Combine sugar and cinnamon. Using a knife or mandoline, thinly slice two apples. Arrange in a single layer on baking sheets; sprinkle with the cinnamon sugar. Bake the apple slices, turning every half hour, until dry, about 2 hours. Remove and transfer to racks to cool and enjoy! I am loving this sweet snack and hope you do too!

I would like to thank Matt Scribner for the idea to make this delicious snack and Rachael Ray for the recipe.

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Happy Friday! Take a break and go get something yummy for lunch today, you deserve it!

All of these photographs will also be linked to my August Break Set on Flickr.

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I made this lettuce free salad over the weekend. It is so easy and healthy and so delicious!

Let me know if you make it and how it comes out!

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We got a new pizza stone that fits perfectly into our mini oven. The pizza came out great, as always when Z cooks, and I had a blast documenting the process!

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