Ok remember that time I made the cheese soufflé from that incredibly fantastic cookbook my mom has called 60-Minute Gourmet? Well since then I’ve commandeered my very own copy of this classic and so far, 60-Minute and I are getting along swimmingly. The author, Pierre Franey, provides easy and fast recipes for really complicated sounding [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Pineapple Salsa
I may or may not have already mentioned that I am a world class, All-American salsa-inhaler. That being said, I cannot take all the credit for my success. I would be nothing without the years of intense competitive salsa eating coaching and training I received growing up in my family. We are all scarily good [...]
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Thai Noodle Soup
Turns out this soup was the perfect dinner to nurse me back after a particularly spine-twisting, hip-popping, groan-inducing yoga class last night. This teacher (twice my age, naturally) had just come back from some yogi-retreat and made me shake and crumble like a 95-year-old grandpa with arthritis. Those 90 minutes might as well have been [...]
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Blueberry Corn Muffins
Yikes! It’s been over a week since my last post! It would be great to have some cool excuse like I was in Paris with Ina Garten or something, but truthfully I’ve got nothing. Let’s just say working six shifts last week wasn’t exactly conducive to leisurely blogging. I might as well have set up [...]
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Mashed Parsnips
Happy Friday, everyone! You’ve made it through another week. Hopefully by now you’re in coasting mode, enjoying a post-lunch food coma, secretly sneaking in a headphone so you can listen to your Justin Bieber radio station on Pandora for the rest of the day (don’t lie, we all have one). I was kinda stuck at [...]
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Breakfast Quinoa
In some sick twist of fate, I think I’m allergic to gluten. Either I’ve spent way too much time on WebMD dreaming my way into hypochondriac land, or I’m actually going to have to avoid pizza, pasta, bread, beer… everything that I hold dear in this life… for the rest. of. my. life. I don’t [...]
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Black Bean Dip
I was pretty shameless at the bean dip free sample display yesterday. Is it wrong to go back for thirds? Fourths? Fifths? Answer: yes. I’m pretty sure store owners do free samples so that kind, supportive shoppers will purchase the what-have-you after they’ve sampled a tastefully discrete portion. I am NOT that shopper. I will [...]
Posted in Appetizers, Beans and Legumes
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Apple and Cheddar Tart
So I moved. It started out on Saturday with me calmly boxing up cookbooks and tenderly wrapping wine glasses in tissue paper. It ended Monday morning in frantic tears as I threw frying pans haphazardly into paper bags (which, obviously, ripped as soon as I lifted them) with totally unrelated items like extension cords and [...]
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