September 2012
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August 2012
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July 2012
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This week's meal
I’ve been trying very hard lately to stay on a food budget and a good part of that is taking the time to plan my meals. Most of this is so that I don’t just waste tons of money on eating out and I make the best use of the food that I buy. This week is Italian themed. That is, however, a very loose theme.
I made a broccoli salad with dried cranberries, sun flower seeds, onion and bacon...
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Back into the swing
So I’ve been out of the food blog game for…. well months and months. A lot has happened in that time. We celebrated the new year, a couple birthdays and a few more holidays. This post has nothing to do with all of the special occasions but is a recipe for just a nice and tasty weeknight meal.
Pasta in a white wine garlic sauce served with Kielbasa and oven roasted Parmesan green...
April 2012
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February 2012
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January 2012
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Sorry Guys...
I am the lamest of the lame about updating something regularly, like this food blog. I have been continuing to cook up a storm and have a backlog of food photos as a result. I shall start with all of the awesome goodies that I made for gifts for the holidays.
I made hot chocolate spoons, with homemade marshmallows, three kinds of fudge, a ton of frosted orange sugar cookies, and lastly dark...
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December 2011
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Tonight
is a night of gluttony. I am going with a bunch of the other lab staff from work to Texas de Brazil. In their words, “Texas de Brazil is an authentic Brazilian-American Churrascaria (steakhouse) that combines the cuisine of Southern Brazil with the generous spirit of Texas.” My first trip to this wonderful restaurant was right after I started working with this group of people. Six...
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Thanksgiving week
So the time for giving thanks has been upon us and for most Americans that means WAY too much food and overindulging in black Friday sales. I was right there with the food all the way, though I made a point to avoid shopping of any kind this week.
Monday found me making a nice hearty batch of chili!
This is the recipe that I used to make this chili. I did not have cumin so I just added more...
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November 2011
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Meatballs!
I am not a person who particularly cares for ground meat usually but I just love my mom’s meatballs. She taught me how to make them myself when I was younger and I thought that I would share that knowledge with the rest of you!
So you can see here we have a pound of ground beef, 2 slices of tasty bread, 2 eggs, some salt and pepper, garlic powder, basil, milk, and some processed bread...
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Baked Goods and the Holidays
So since money is a little tight this year I can’t afford big gifts for people for the holidays. What I can afford is to bake and send those off to friends. My current problem though is that I cannot figure out what to make and send out this year.
Can anyone share any baked goods gift ideas with me?
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Finally! Food!
Alright so I had planned on sharing a bit more about the last steps of making food for my Halloween Party. I let myself get a little scattered in the process so some things have tons of photos while others only have a couple.
First, let us talk about the garlic parmesan pull apart bread.This is a little bit longer process and something that doesn’t keep for very long if you don’t...
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Making Chips
So I had tried to make my own potato chips to bring to a cook out at a friend’s house this weekend. They were to be served with a blue cheese sauce. They did not quite turn out well. At all. Those that I had done by hand in a pan turned out alright.
However, this turned out to be a very tedious process and they were prone to burning. I attempted to make them on a sheet pan in the oven...
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Marshmallows!
So in my last food entry we saw a full menu of tasty food treats that I was planning and prepping for my Halloween party this weekend. Today I worked on the marshmallows.
They have turned out amazing. It took so much power not to just eat the marshmallow batter as I went but I have them setting out right now setting.
First:
Soften the gelatin by adding 2 packets of powdered gelatin to 1/2...
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So I've been cooking up a storm!
I have a ton of food pictures that I need to upload. I have started working on party prep for the awesome and wonderful Halloween party that is creeping up on me this weekend.
The menu:
Pigs in Blanket Bites: I made a couple of changes to the recipe. I didn’t have any mustard seed to roll them in so I tossed some yellow mustard powder into the mix. I also used spicy keilbasa type...
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A follow up on SOUP!
From last time we looked at some delicious soup leftovers and I never talked about what actually went into MAKING the soup. As a result, I thought that I would take the time to expound upon the process of acquiring this:
First off, I have a habit of buying celery in an attempt to have a healthy snack in the house to eat with peanut butter and raisins (ants on a log, anyone?) and then...
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A simple homemade dinner
Let’s try this one again, no trying to queue stuff or the like this time.
I got quite the nice simple homemade dinner this week. I came home to almost all of my food prep to get dinner ready and one the table done for me. Yay! The only thing better for me would have been the cooked meal but this made me pretty happy.
So all my veggies were prepped so they could be steamed and then have...
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Soup!
I mentioned my budget being a little stretched right now and therefor turning to my frozen stockpile of food, including a beautiful veggie soup I made. I wanted to talk a bit more about this particular soup and encourage everyone to try to buy local and support their area farmers market.
I bought all of the veggies, minus the cannelini beans and the celery from the Maitland Farmer’s...
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Hosting a dinner party
On the note of steak for the week I would love to make this for a dinner party of people. I would serve this with whipped potatoes and a fresh greens salad.
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Tight Budget
So, I’ve stretched myself a little thin this week waiting on various bills to happen before payday so I’m making some economical food decisions. You are probably wonder what that means. Basically, eat what I’ve already made!
I have a habit, and a good one, of cooking up a bunch of veggies from the farmers market and such right before they go bad, usually into soup, and then...
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