If you don't have visitors yet this week-- you will. Inevitably, something will be forgotten on the grocery run. It's probably something as mundane as a container of French Onion Dip. This Caramelized Onion Dip can be brought together with a variety of ingredients involved in the traditional American Thanksgiving with a little time and effort. Serve as an appetizer or as a welcome addition to any game day spread over the course of the holiday week, and you'll be a hero. 

Leftover ideas using this dip are to come!

It’s been a weird month in my life. I normally work from home for my day job, but circumstances beyond my control brought me temporarily back into the office. I can’t eat breakfast in the morning as I normally would. So, I decided to create an egg bite version of a breakfast taco to take in for myself and my other coworkers to start our collective day off right.

If you are on a low-carb diet for weight loss or health purposes, you can omit all steps involving the tortilla and bake as traditional egg bites. One of my coworkers that was a perspective taste tester is staunchly low carb, and so I made the option available to her. It turned out just fine!

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Live alone, and struggle to eat affordably? Try this single serving Carbonara-inspired pasta dish that comes out to less than $2.00 per meal depending on where you shop! Thank god eggs have come back down, huh?

This recipe is by no means traditional, using a classic thick cut piece of American Bacon rather than guanciale. The point is to do it affordably. Enjoy a decadent, eggy sauce without the ingredient search.

Total Price: $1.60 Per Serving

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It's World Chocolate Day, and what better way to celebrate than with a big ol' plate of Cherry Chocolate Chip Brownies. These cherry chocolate chips can be hard to find in some places, so search Amazon if you can't find them at your local grocery store. Green Bay is blessed with Eileen's to produce them in town, and I couldn't resist as both World Chocolate Day and Cherry Season came together.

Hopefully this recipe marks the beginning of another surge of content from yours truly. I'm sorry its been so quiet around here lately! Enjoy.

The viral baked feta and tomato pasta of yesteryear still haunts me to this day. I’ve never made it, but I found myself with a block of boursin and some grape tomatoes slightly past their prime that simply needed to go. So they went! I duplicated the feta and tomato pasta with a substitute of the boursin to delicious effect, even if the sauce wasn’t the prettiest at first.

I may duplicate this method in the future using other soft cheeses like the Cypress Grove Purple Haze or another Boursin flavor. 

This is also our first recorded video with the outtakes on the Eating Normal Patreon– subscribe at the five dollar level for all the perks!

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We all know I love a Frittata. I love reducing food waste even more. This is my favorite method of using up ingredients from other recipes or dishes from other meals that I didn't finish. The image you see above used up some breakfast sausage and a mixture of peppers and onions that I made for meal prepped breakfast burritos!

Duck eggs can be hard to find, so don't worry if you can only find chicken eggs. You can use them to make this frittata as well, but you'll need six or seven chicken eggs instead of five duck eggs.

You can also substitute a splash of milk, half and half, or cream instead of using sour cream like I did here. This frittata is more of a method to be used instead of a hard line recipe. Share your versions with me at our social media.

Recipe Card available below the Read break

Pine nuts are too expensive. They’ve always been too expensive, and it’s even worse with the post-lockdown inflation. Fear not– a substitute has emerged. Roasted pepitas are available at most supermarkets for almost a third of the price, and they’re tasty in many other applications when your pesto is ready. 

I use this version on everything from pasta to pizza, from sandwiches to salads. 

Check out the recipe below!

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