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A piece of casserole with corn, bacon and shredded potatoes on a white plate with a fork and salsa.

7 Layer Breakfast Casserole

7 Layer Breakfast Casserole is a hearty breakfast dish with seven flavor-filled layers including hash brown potatoes, corn, peppers, bacon, tomato and cheese. Fully Tested Recipe This one took four or five rounds of experimentation (I lost track) for the specific layer configuration.  Hash browns on the bottom?  The top?  What about the bacon?  Lots

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Southwest Overnight Breakfast Casserole

Overnight Breakfast Casserole

Want to make breakfast on Christmas morning infinitely less complicated?  A hot breakfast, ready to go in the slow cooker is the way to go.  This recipe for an overnight breakfast casserole celebrates my favorite southwest flavors with pepper jack cheese and green chiles.  Of course, because it’s the holidays, it’s got BACON <3. It

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Creamy Dijon Bacon Brussels Sprouts

*This Creamy Dijon Bacon Brussels Sprouts recipe is sponsored by Shamrock Farms, makers of farm fresh, hormone-free dairy products, though all opinions expressed are my own.  Seriously, I only endorse stuff that I would actually pay real cash-money to buy for myself. So many of us were raised to dislike brussels sprouts because they were over-cooked,

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Turkey Bacon Avocado Grilled Cheese

Turkey Bacon Avocado Grilled Cheese Sub

This Turkey Bacon Avocado Grilled Cheese Sub sandwich is literally grilled.  It’s meant for the outdoor fun of tailgating or fall backyard parties.  Super crazy easy, not a ton of ingredients and that fun “wow” factor because it’s larger than life.  Everyone loves an over-sized sandwich, right? Of course, you can change out any of

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Bacon Quiche Recipe

Eggs Love Bacon Quiche

Did you know that the pie crust companies have been lying to us for years?  Seriously.  For the longest time, they had me duped into believing that pie crust required magical pastry voo-doo only possessed by the sweetest of grandmothers and hardcore gourmands.  Sorry pie crust companies, I’m hip to your game.  Pie crust is

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Jalapeno Bacon Cheesy Egg Rolls - joaniesimon.com - the ultimate game day snack

Jalapeno Bacon Cheese Egg Rolls

**AWARD WINNING**  These egg rolls won first place in the Shamrock Farms 2016 Football Food Throwdown. …now I’m just being silly.  Jalapeno, bacon and cheese in egg roll form?  Yep, and they’re crazy delicious.  So delicious that Ryan plowed through four of them promptly upon completion of their photo shoot.  Seriously, he has never hovered

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Sweet Potato Bacon Soup

Sweet Potato Soup

I had a single sweet potato hanging out in the miscellaneous produce bowl in the kitchen (currently being occupied by an acorn squash, a few limes, a tomato on its last leg, and a bunch of bananas, for the monkeys of course).  He was a pretty large sweet potato and on the heels of my

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Berry Blue Arugula Salad

This salad was inspired from my obsession with lighting berries.  Yes, I’m weird, but hey, it’s my blog.  I do what I want.  As you can see, this salad has blackberries.  They reflect light in such a ridiculously luxurious way, like light bouncing off a dozen mini mirrors.  Look at them, aren’t they dreamy!?!  This salad

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