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This site is designed to be an easily read and navigated family cookbook for the Merrill Family and our friends.

All recipes here are added by hand and are constantly being fine-tuned. If you have notes, please send them to the author.

Follow the tabs in the navigation bar to find:
• Home: Directions on website use, plus our current favorite meals to make, taken from elsewhere on the site.
• Starters: Appetizers, snacks, and other pre-food foods.
• Main: Main courses of all kinds, sorted into navigable sub-categories.
• Sides: Side dishes to round out a main course by adding carbs, vegetables, ect.
• Deserts: Sweets to finish a meal or show off at your next function.
• Drinks: Delicious drinks that prove you DON'T need alcohol to have fun.
• Magic: Sauces, Spice Rubs, Marinades, and Dressings, these are the backbone of a flavorful dish.
• Holiday: The big guns for the big days of the year, or for when you want to make something feel extra special.
• Meal Prep: Cook ahead of time for the week with a few crushable recipes that are easy to make, store, and reheat.

Kitchen Tools

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• Grill: Indoor infrared grill and an outdoor propane beastie for getting that distinct flavor.
• Insta-pot: For all our pressure cooking (and rice) needs.
• Knives: We have the whole Cutco Kitchen, used for all our cutting, slicing, and dicing.
• Oven: An oven for baking, and a toaster oven for toasting, roasting, and frying. Hopefully we'll have a pizza oven one day.
• Stove: Electric burners (gas one-day) and cutco pots and pans for all our direct-heat cooking.
• Vitamix: More than just a blender, this is used frequently for drinks, sauces, and soups as well as milling flour.

Pantry Staples

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• Unknown - This section is still in development

Dietary Restrictions

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• Allergies: Our family deals with allergies to milk, eggs, and peanuts, and as such, all recipes found here are made with alternatives, when possible. If the recipe contains any of those ingredients, its because replacing them hasn't been determined to be worth it.
• Secret Ingredients: These sections are special changes to standard recipes that we do, and are often worth the effort. However, the meal will turn out just fine if you skip these ingredients and they're associated steps.
• Spices: Our family likes a tasty heat - not too hot to enjoy, not bland or bad tasting. If our recipe is too hot for you, feel free to leave out the hotter, usually marked as optional, ingredients.