Chocolate Almond Ice Cream

This past Christmas, Laura bought me an ice cream maker. We wanted to make our own healthy sorbets and ice creams, but then we found this recipe for a chocolate ice cream that we wanted to try. I wanted to spice it up since I think just vanilla or chocolate ice cream is boring, so I roasted some almonds and threw in some almond extract and Wow! It turned out amazing. I don't think we have bought ice cream since we made this recipe.Chocolate Almond...

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BBQ Pulled Pork

Today, Laura and I are making dinner and taking it to the other counselor in our bishopric and his wife. They got in a bad accident two weeks ago and his wife, who was 7 months pregnant, had to have an emergency C-section. Everything turned out great and their son is doing amazingly well! But she broke her sternum in the accident, so it's hard for her to do a lot of things still. So we are going to make them a special treat! A few months ago, Laura...

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Chicken Romano

A few weeks ago, we went to our favorite restaurant, The Cheesecake Factory, with our friends Matt and Rebekah. I decided to try something new so I got the Chicken Romano, and I was speechless. It was so good!!! So we decided to try and make our own version of it last night. It's actually pretty easy to make, and although it wasn't as good as the Cheesecake Factory's version, it was still pretty dang good nonetheless. So here is the recipe:Chicken...

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White Chicken and Cilantro Chili

Last summer, we started a dinner club with two other couples in our ward. Once a week we all meet at someones place and share dinner with each other. We started this club thinking that it would only last a month or so, but we've all enjoyed it so much that we've faithfully been doing it week after week. I think we all actually look forward to it each week. Tonight, it was our turn and we decided to try a new recipe that we found, and of course we had to mix it up to make it our own. It turned out so good!! Probably one of my favorite recipes we...

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Amazing Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

The other day, I came home from classes and found that Laura made me these awesome valentine sugar cookies. They were so good that it was really hard limiting ourselves to just a few. They were so perfect, and we want to share them with everyone! But first we have to give credit where credit is due: this recipe was given to us from our good friend Kari-Lynn. It's funny how we know Kari-Lynn, She grew up and went to high school with me in Lake Stevens,...

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