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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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25K
A year ago this weekend I ran my first 10K at the Fifth Third River Bank Run. I had concluded at the end of the race that I was going to do the 25K this year, and I used the memories of that run to motivate me all the way until the point I crossed…
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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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Beer Recipe: 1492 IPA
This is the recipe for my 1492 IPA, which is based on a kit IPA. It’s an extract beer, and at some point down the road I may modify it to become an all-grain beer. I wasn’t particularly concerned with gravity on the first batch of this beer, so I don’t have that info at…
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A record month
The month of March has been a big one for me. Despite getting sick (again) earlier this month with the same thing I had the week prior to my trip to California, I managed to shatter a few records: – Most active month on RunKeeper (21+ workouts) – Best running month ever (42.1 miles) –…
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Dry Lent: 40 down, 6 to go.
First of all, at some point we collectively forgot how to count. Lent is not 40 days. It’s 46. You might be able to stretch that a bit and not count Holy Week (Palm Sunday – Easter Sunday), but nobody ends the Lenten sacrifice on Palm Sunday. It ends a week after that. Thus, here…
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