Posted in chicken, citrus, easy meals, sides, vegetables on Dec 16th, 2009 No Comments »
I’m back! Sorry for the long hiatus in posting. Life has just been beyond busy, and frankly, I’ve been suffering from a lack of inspiration so I’ve been cooking many meals which I’ve already blogged. I’ve been focusing my creative juices in some other places, some worthwhile, some not so much. Anyway, I sought out [...]
Posted in cheese, chicken, easy meals, leftovers, olives, pasta, spinach on Nov 11th, 2009 2 Comments »
This is pasta with spirit. It’s essentially a melding and blending of flavors that grab your tongue and say, “Open up! This is what it feels like to really live.” Olives seem to be a love them or hate them kind of food. I am constantly surrounded by people (including my sweet sisters and a [...]
Posted in citrus, easy meals, legumes, quinoa, sides on Nov 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
I created this side dish for a different, healthy, light choice to replace our usual suspects. If you haven’t jumped on the quinoa(pronounced keen-wa) bandwagon yet, you should. Are you a vegetarian? Do you tend towards high blood sugar? Are you looking to add iron, folic acid, or fiber to your diet? Are you exploring [...]
Posted in cheap meals, chicken, easy meals on Sep 19th, 2009 3 Comments »
Another quick dinner idea. One of my foodbuzz friend’s had a great recipe this week. StumptownSavory posted a mustard sauce, that in addition to looking delicious, contained ingredients that I usually have on hand. I’m not a huge lover of chicken, and I pray for the day the scientists hit CNN Wendy’s style crying WHERE’S [...]
Posted in cheap meals, chicken, easy meals, olives on Sep 15th, 2009 1 Comment »
For some reason I have this horror at using any pre-made products when preparing meals. Maybe cause I feel like I don’t “own” it, you know, it’s not really “mine”. It’s psychotic and really not very practical. Luckily I have a loving husband who rolls with my personal insanities, finds them maybe almost endearing, even [...]
Posted in cheap meals, cheese, comfort, easy meals, turkey on Sep 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
College Football Season is a mere one day away. Tomorrow there will be live football back on the air. Since we have a Duck in the family now, I’ll probably be watching the Oregon game tomorrow. And Utah is playing tomorrow, too. Since they’re still pitching a fit about the BCS results, I’ll have to [...]
Posted in broccoli, chicken, easy meals, food to share, leftovers, vegetables, zucchini on Aug 27th, 2009 No Comments »
So the thing about Asian food, and I’m sure this is one of those foot-in-the-mouth remarks, is back when I had gestational diabetes, I couldn’t pass my blood sugar after a meal at an Asain restaurant to save my life. Even when I thought I was making good choices. Now – the same can probably [...]
Posted in bread, easy meals, food to share, herbs, make and store recipes, olives, pasta on Jun 20th, 2009 1 Comment »
This post will wrap up the party food and I’ll be back to our regularly featured programming. I have an exciting plan to recreate an appetizer I had at The Porch Restaurant tomorrow, so tune back in for that. The end of the party preparation had me totally feeling like the Iron Chef. There was [...]
Posted in chicken, comfort, easy meals, leftovers, pasta on Jun 13th, 2009 No Comments »
I’m making a conscious effort not to waste as much food. Both for environmentaland financial reasons. And because it’s so, you know, wasteful. I have a realproblem of buying some specific ingredient then only using a portion and the rest goes to waste as I fail to incorporate it into another recipe. Like that partial [...]
Posted in comfort, easy meals, sandwiches on Jun 11th, 2009 2 Comments »
Last week I had a sweeping intervention of good luck and was both relieved and joyous about my good karma. This week the universe is taking it all back with a vengance. Almost every task I’ve gone to do this week has proven more difficult than reasonable and often doomed to failure. I won’t bother [...]
