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The No-Cook Holiday Party {with fresh market}

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Super easy no-cooking holiday entertaining is here! This post is in partnership with The Fresh Market, opinions and ideas for hosting are mine.

I recently heard someone say on Instagram, “I’m opting out of everything this holiday season,” and, 1. I get it, 2. it made me a little bit sad.

Sad because our culture has gotten to the point that things are SO bonkers that we can’t do anything at all. I get it, but I also still crave holiday fun: parties, handheld stuff, bubbly things to drink, all of it. Our kitchen is in zero position to be crafting anything fancy at the moment (we’re moving, it’s a lot), but that doesn’t stop my regular “tis the season” desires.

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Best Ever Chorizo Bean Dip

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Hello and HI, Happy Halloween if you’re into that sort of thing, happy end of October, happy fall, all of the happy.

It’s a really busy week so I’m thinking if I just type HAPPY over and over it will be come true?

Maybe I’ll get lucky. What does NOT require luck, though, is the super simple ultimate refried bean dip we have here before us.

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Crispy Garlic Butter Smashed Potatoes

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Don’t leave me. It feels good. Embrace it. The garlic butter, that is. 

Hello and welcome to your new favorite side dish! These are YUMMY, a word that honestly should be used to describe as many of your foods as possible. You only live once, potatoes are a vegetable, and garlic butter is the savory icing on the potato cake that we all need to use whenever we possibly can. 

I wrote on Instagram yesterday how much I love this Southern-style cabbage for a quick weeknight side dish. These potatoes, I’d argue, go perfectly with said cabbage, add some fish and chicken and here we go not sorry about two side dishes that use butter, know what I mean? These Crispy Smashed Potatoes are simple to make in just a few steps and the end result is a fluffy-on-the-inside, crispy-on-the-outside cross between mashed potatoes and french fries that is REALLY yummy. Trust.

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Grilled Shrimp with Avocado Pico

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Oh hi, stereotypical summer meal!

Grilled Shrimp with Avocado Pico De Gallo

I’ve been cooking more low carb meals recently, and a struggle I have is finding meals that feel like a whole meal, not like there SHOULD have been mashed potatoes on the side of this steak, you know?

This is that. It’s the most perfectly light but complete low carb/gluten free meal, and it’s full of huge flavor to boot.

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