Category: Food
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Recipe: Thanksigiving Stuffing
Because in this family, a Stove Top is something you cook on, not shove inside a bird. Stuffing (yes, stuffing, not dressing) is one of those things that’s kind of like, well, basically everything else about Thanksgiving: highly customized and open to interpretation. Disregarding the above statement, maybe your definition of Thanksgiving is what you…
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New Recipe(s): Marinades for Kebabs, Two Ways
One of the nicer aspects of my job also happens to be one of my unofficial job duties: cooking for our bi-weekly team lunch meeting. It’s no secret that I love to cook, and since our office has a full kitchen and a decent-sized gas grill, I’ve got some room to play. It’s consistently one…
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A long-overdue update – it’s been a beautiful weekend
It’s not that I’ve forgotten that I have a blog with a readership of…maybe, in a good week, 1 (plus about a thousand bots)…but I may have realized that my last post to this thing is almost 18 months old. A lot has changed since then. This post isn’t meant to cover the contents of…
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Discovering Salsa
Winter returned this weekend, reminding us that it’s only February, that March is truly a Lenten month, and it’s insanity to expect Spring-like weather before Oberon Day (27 days and counting). Still, the sun was out and February is almost over, and I wanted to try something new. I had a pretty good-sized flank steak…
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Recipe: Dorothy Richards Ribs
When my dad was a teenager, he had a job as a janitorial assistant in a hospital in southwest Michigan. While he was working there, he got to know a lady who hailed from the deep south who had a killer recipe for ribs. She gave him the recipe, which we’ve held on to since.…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 35: Shrimp Pomodoro
Pomodoro sauce is essentially a basic tomato sauce, in the same way that an Alfredo sauce is a cream-based sauce. This recipe begins with plain Roma tomatoes and adds garlic, fresh basil, olive oil, shrimp, and crushed red pepper to create a spicy sauce atop al dente penne pasta. Here’s what you’ll need: 1 pound…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 24: Quiche
Last Christmas, I got 4 new cookbooks, plus a fifth on how to make 750 cocktails (I sense a 40 Cocktail Challenge on the horizon). This recipe, along with a few others that I’ve explored in recent months, comes from Cook This, Not That (available on Amazon for a ridiculously affordable price). The thing that…
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40 Recipe Challenge – An Update
Last year, one of my goals was to try 40 new recipes. I made it all the way up to 16. 2012 was not the best year for me. Since then, however, I’ve moved, purchased a grill (Weber Performer…as if there were any other choice), and really tore into the cookbooks. Below is a summary…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 16: Broccoli Cheese Soup
There are a handful of soups out there that I want to make one of these days. Seafood asparagus bisque, chicken enchilada, and broccoli cheese, among others. After crossing clam chowder off the list with an awesome recipe a few weeks ago, I decided to riff on that recipe and modify it for broccoli cheese…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 15: One-pot Chili
Fall is more or less here, and I’m in a mood to do soups, largely because they’re easy to make and make for a pretty good leftover during the week’s lunches. Since I had some canned Roma tomatoes I needed to use up and I wanted to clean a few other things out of the…