Category: Food
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 14: Clam Chowder
A few weeks ago I decided that I wasn’t going to wait for the weather to cool down any more, so on a weekend when it was 80ish degrees outside, I made clam chowder. The recipe for said chowder came from my Two Guys One Pan cookbook, and it was amazing. This was the first…
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An Eventful Weekend (warning: includes Minestrone)
I’m working late on a two-day week (yes, if you use a couple of days of PTO to plug the gap between a national holiday on a Wednesday and the weekend, you can make a nifty little two-day work week for yourself) waiting on a virtual machine to finish converting, so I thought I’d post…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 13: Chicken Thighs with Herbs and Wine
This is another recipe that I got from Two Dudes, One Pan. I would strongly advise using chicken thighs, and not chicken breasts; they’re delicious that way. What you’ll need: Approximately 1lb of boneless chicken thighs, skin on (if they’re skinless that’s fine too) 2 tbl salt 2 tbl oil 2 shallots, thinly sliced 2…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 12: Risotto with Bacon and Shittake Mushrooms
Back when I made the crock pot pulled pork in March, my friend looked at the leftover juices and drippings in the crock pot and suggested that some good stock could come out of that. Figuring that there was nothing to lose, I turned the crock pot down to low and returned to it the…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 11: Hash Browns
A few weeks ago I got a grater with the express purpose of making hash browns, but I never managed to get around to making them until today. They’re a little more involved than I had originally expected, but they were definitely worth it. I got the original recipe from the Williams-Sonoma site (available here)…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 10: Mexican Rice
In addition to the chicken enchiladas I made last night, I also decided to put together some Mexican rice. Mexican rice and Japanese fried rice are two things I wanted to figure out this year, and last night I think I made decent progress towards figuring out the first of those two things. This is…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 9: Chicken Enchiladas
Last night I decided to do some Mexican for Cinco de Mayo, and figured it would be a good opportunity to do a recipe I hadn’t had before. I pulled out my grandmother’s recipe for chicken enchiladas, which I’ll share with the rest of you. Because the process for making these was a little rushed,…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 8: Cajun Chicken & Shrimp Pasta
This is my attempt to replicate the recipe by the same name that TGI Fridays offers. I made this without the red bell peppers, because I’m just not a fan of those things. Here’s what you’ll need: 1lb Fettuccine pasta 1lb chicken breasts or chicken breast tenderloins 1lb shrimp, cooked, with tails removed 1T butter…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 7: Crock Pot Pulled Pork
After taking several weeks off, I decided it was time to get back into the 40 recipe challenge. This was the first thing I’d done since coming back from California, and it may actually spawn one or two other really good recipes in the next week or two. I had looked for crock pot pulled…
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Sushi Review: Party Sushi
Tuesday I decided to strike out on an afternoon of wandering, and since I was alone and my friend has a pretty bad shellfish allergy, I figured it was as good a time as any to grab some sushi. I did some searching online to try and find a sushi place that wasn’t either a…