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    Pizza Recipe!

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    Ever since I had the privilege of eating roasted vegetable pizza at kindred spirit Meghan‘s house when we were traveling through New Mexico, I’ve been obsessed with trying out different recipes.

    Here’s my favorite so far:

    Ingredients:

    • a basket of cherry tomatoes (the variety baskets our perfect!)
    • pesto sauce
    • pizza crust (we buy ours in the dough form from Whole Foods, although pizza crust is very easy to make)
    • a mozzarella log
    • balsamic vinegar
    • olive oil
    • sugar
    • two garlic cloves, minced
    • sea salt
    • freshly ground black pepper
    • dried rosemary

    Directions:

    1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees
    2. Arrange the tomatoes on a cookie sheet, cut
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    Baby Food Party

    These days, I’m trying to find as many ways possible to leverage the power of community to save money. Our babysitting co-op has been great for that. I’m able to get free babysitting for Henry by babysitting my friends’ babies.

    I recently had the idea that I could save time and money (and have fun!) by coordinating a baby food making party. I sent out a message to the gals from my prenatal yoga class and six of them expressed interest.

    We’re going to get together on a Saturday afternoon (sans babies) and make a whole bunch of homemade, organic baby food. Since baby food can be frozen for up

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    Best Spaghetti Ever

    Image courtesy of Bon Appetit

    I said I don’t like superlatives (like “best ever” chocolate chip cookies), but here I am again with another “best ever” recipe.

    My friend, Allison, is preparing for a three-month journey around the world with her partner Jason before they start trying to build their family, so she needed to stay with us for a few days while working on her visa situation.

    We sort of have a tradition with Allison. Whenever she stays over, she always cooks us a delicious meal. This time, she cooked a spaghetti recipe from Bon Appetit.

    You know when you make spaghetti at home the sauce always

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