Tag: Food
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Manfriend Meals: Stuffed Flank Steak
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Although I’m a vegetarian, I do still cook meat dishes for others from time to time. A few weeks ago, I treated my manfriend and Little Sister’s manfriend to a home cooked dinner featuring these Stuffed Flank Steaks: The grocery store I stopped at on the way home from work…
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Roasted Cabbage
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My mom presented a new item at Sunday Family Dinner a few weekends ago: Roasted cabbage.It was amazing! And she swears it was as simple as: slice cabbage, drizzle with infused olive oil (your savory flavor of choice), sprinkle with salt and papper, and roast in the over until light…
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And Tonight’s Super Bowl Menu Includes….
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The manfriend and I have been hard at work in the kitchen this morning. Here’s what we’ll be taking to tonight’s ITB Super Bowl gathering. Drumroll please… Four mildly healthy, but certainly better for you than the norm, appetizer-sized items, including:Deviled EggsMexican Roll-UpsSpinach BallsDry Rub Grilled Wings I’ll be cheering…
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I’m Still Here…
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…just doing a lot of working (and I do mean A LOT), social events and weddings, tailgating, and the like. It is that time of year, again. I’ve also been DVRing a lot of 5 Ingredient Fix with Claire Robinson on Food Network. (I promise I’ll explain next why that’s…
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Put the Boys to Work… at Hardly Working
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I realize Thanksgiving has just come and gone, but Christmas dinner is right around the corner. I love Andrea Weigl’s suggestion of putting the boys to work! Thursday when I serve Thanksgiving dinner to a small group of friends, everyone will contribute. I will bake a pecan pie and a…
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Local Raves: The Produce Box
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Nick and I (and really mostly me in that equation) have a weekly CSA (community-sustained agriculture) service we can buy from and have delivered — The Produce Box. I totally forgot to login before 9pm tonight and pick out which Produce Box I wanted for this upcoming week. This girl…
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A New Venture & BBQ Tonight!
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Brandon and I are no culinary experts, but we know our BBQ… so we’ve started a blog about it! Join us TONIGHT at The Pit in Downtown Raleigh for a fan viewing of their Throwdown with Bobby Flay from the Food Network! http://www.ncbbqtour.com/2009/05/our-first-event.html
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Local Produce – YAY!
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Ok, it is terrible that I might need to rely on a delivery service to provide me with local, fresh produce when I pass the NC Farmers Market multiple times a day. That being said, this will still ensure I get to support local agriculture even with my “I don’t…
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My Dear Boyfriend…
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…and I say this in the nicest way possible: SUCKS WHEN IT COMES TO DINNERTIME. Well, that’s as nice as I could make it. It’s downright frustrating. The man (boy in this situation, because it’s quite illustrative of the attitude of a 5 year old) is picky when it comes…