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Recipe 14: C-Dawg’s Apple Pie Cheesecake

🍎 C-Dawg’s Apple Pie Cheesecake Serves: 10–12 Total Time: ~2 hours + chill overnight This cheesecake is what happens when apple pie...

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16 hours ago2 min read

Recipe 13: 3Dudes1life’s Lazy Chicken & Waffles

🧇 3Dudes1life’s Lazy Chicken & Waffles Serves: 2–4 Total Time: ~25 minutes Crispy meets fluffy in this sweet-meets-savory classic —...

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Dec 72 min read

Post 24: 🎄 Two Dudes, Two Dogs, One Turkey, and a Whole Lot of Christmas Chaos

Like clockwork — HOW has it already been two weeks again?! Time is literally sprinting and honestly, with Caleb being gone, we thought it would drag. Turns out… nope. Daniel and Will have been busy AF around the house getting everything ready for Christmas and the holidays. And listen… this is the longest the two of them have been together alone without Caleb since the Navy days — and surprisingly? Zero fights. Zero trauma. Zero “I’m gonna go for a walk” moments. We are prou

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Dec 54 min read

Recipe 12: C-Dawg’s Famous Key Lime Pie

🥧 C-Dawg’s Famous Key Lime Pie Serves: 8–10 slices Total Time: ~3 hours 45 minutes (includes chill time) This pie is summer in a slice...

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Nov 302 min read

Recipe 11: Pickle Juice Chicken Marinade

🥒 Pickle Juice Chicken Marinade Serves: 4–6 Marinade Time: 2–24 hours Cooking Options: Grill, bake, or fry Forget fancy brines —...

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Nov 232 min read

Post 23: 🍁 Life Lately: Rain, Goodbyes, and a Whole Lot of Chaos

We know, we know… we say this in literally every blog, but life feels like it’s on fast-forward lately. November has come in swinging, and everything is happening at once. The biggest shift? Caleb has officially ditched us for Texas until mid-December to help his dad recover from surgery. It’s the longest he and Will have been apart since their Navy days — and after the first couple of days, the muscle memory does come back — but for Daniel, Zoey, and Rigsby? This is basica

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Nov 214 min read

Recipe 10: Black Truffle Risotto

🍄 Black Truffle Risotto Serves: 4 (plus maybe 1 leftover serving) Total Time: ~45 minutes Creamy, decadent, and full of that...

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Nov 162 min read

Recipe 9: Daniel & Will’s Quick Pickled Veggies

🥒 Daniel & Will’s Quick Pickled Veggies Makes: About 1 quart Total Time: 20 minutes (plus chill time) Crisp, tangy, and a little spicy...

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Nov 92 min read

Post 22: Life Update - 🎃 Halloween, Early Sunsets & Life in Full Swing

Hope everyone’s had an amazing start to November and that your Halloween was just as wild (or cozy) as you wanted it to be. Around here, it was full-blown chaos — the good kind. We handed out almost 300 candy packets and had around 160+ trick-or-treaters show up. It was nonstop from sundown to 9 PM, and honestly, it felt like running a small festival out of our front yard. What’s funny is some of our friends in town said they barely got anyone — even the apartment complexes w

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Nov 74 min read

Recipe 8: C-Dawg’s Ooey-Gooey Cinnamon Rolls with Toasted Nuts

🍥 C-Dawg’s Ooey-Gooey Cinnamon Rolls with Toasted Nuts Serves: 12–15 rolls Total Time: ~2½ hours (includes rise time) Soft, buttery,...

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Nov 13 min read

Recipe 7: Great Grandma Z’s Perfect Apple Pie

🥧 Great Grandma Z’s Perfect Apple Pie Serves: 8 Total Time: ~1 hour 15 minutes (plus cooling time) A true family classic — buttery...

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Oct 252 min read

Post 21: 🎃 Life Update: October Shifts & Spooky Season Feels

October has for sure been a month of change for us — emotionally, creatively, and even in our little circle of people. It started with a neighbor moving back to Kansas and then one of our close friends moving back to South Carolina after years in California. It’s weird when people leave your life out here because California kind of has a shelf life for a lot of folks. It’s beautiful, it’s chaotic, but it’s expensive and heavy sometimes. After a while, that catches up with peo

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Oct 245 min read