Tag: food
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Recipe: Rice Pilaf (Updated)
Previously, I had posted a recipe for a basic rice pilaf I cooked up out of my head. It had been a while since I had made this, and after my last few batches of wild rice turned out rather disappointing, I decided to head back to the pilaf. This time I decided to not…
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2012 Goals
2011 was a decent year. I ran my first 5K and 10K, biked 100km for the first time in a couple of years, and got quite a bit better at soccer. I made my first batch of mead and capped the year yesterday with a bottling party at my friend’s place. We bottled 4 growlers…
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Recipe: Cheesy bacon potato skins
About a week and a half ago, I found myself itching to go bowling, not so I could make a fool of myself and maybe break 50, but because one of the bowling alleys around here has some really great cheesy bacon potato skins. I realized pretty quickly that going to the bowling alley specifically…
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An Awesome Weekend
Disclaimer: this is going to be a very, very long post. Friday I got the camera lens on my Evo fixed, so I can finally take clear pictures again. Take a peek… Before: my copy of Halo (which arrived a day late, by the way…way to go, Amazon) looking quite hazy. After: tasty chocolate covered…
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Recipe: Rice Pilaf
Sunday I had a few friends over and made an insanely awesome dinner with garlic-scented tomato salad, crusty french bread with garlic herb butter, chicken breasts stuffed with feta cheese, artichoke hearts, and roasted red bell pepper, mix greens salad, rice pilaf, and warm apple crisp for dessert. Delicious. I came up with the recipe…
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Time for an experiment
I have concluded, after the last 24 hours, that I’m sick. Not in a major, show-stopping, don’t-shake-my-hand kind of way, but I’m sick. It’s probably the beginning of the bi-annual sick that I get around this time every fall and spring when the seasons go through their major changes and my body decides it doesn’t…
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Three-Day Weekends
Something that I take a certain degree of razzing over at work is my habit of using vacation days to create three-day weekends. This weekend is the second in 3 weeks that I lengthened, originally for a planned camping trip. Unfortunately I wound up not going, but given that it’s raining up there this weekend,…
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Trapped in the elevator
Yesterday I got trapped in an elevator at work for 30ish minutes. I’ve been stuck in elevators before, and if it weren’t for the fact that I had a pretty good feeling that I was going to get stuck, I would have lost faith in my theory that, much like being struck by lightning, you…
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Northern Escape
This weekend I fled up north with a friend from college to go back home with her. We grabbed lunch at Wild Chef and then started the trip up to Frankfort, which is a really small town on the lake about 3 hours north of Holland. There were two things I really liked about Frankfort.…