Posted in Food & Drink on Nov 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
Sometimes good recipes come from the unlikeliest places – like the wrapper on a hunk of meat, for instance. I peeled the wrapper of this pot roast off looking for instructions on cooking time, expecting to just toss it into the crock pot with some carrots and potatoes. What I discovered is the pot roast [...]
Posted in Everyday, Food & Drink on Oct 29th, 2008 6 Comments »
I almost left it at just this, a picture. Because really, what else needs to be said? But the point I’m trying to make here, is not that I buy myself single servings of ice cream, because why not just buy the entire half gallon? If I’m going to buy a bunch of single serving [...]
Posted in Food & Drink on Sep 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
A favorite thing to do on our many adventures downtown to Pike Place Market is to stop by the Pappardelle’s Pasta stand. It all started one morning when we were meandering through at about 8:30am, before all the tourists started swarming. This is the best time to be at the market, by the way. All [...]
Posted in Food & Drink on Sep 7th, 2008 2 Comments »
What’s the opposite of Post Traumatic Stress? Post Euphoric Orgasm? I don’t know, but something in me twitched when I saw this picture and suddenly I could taste the lime and avocado and Sungold Cherry Tomatoes in my mouth. I was having lunch with a friend one day, lamenting about all the boring recipes available [...]
Posted in Food & Drink on Aug 31st, 2008 1 Comment »
Well, *I* certainly enjoyed that rash of new blogs posts last week – didn’t you? Not sure how I found the time to do that, but I can guarantee it won’t be happening again this week. Ruthie starts school on Tuesday, and while that theoretically gives me more time to think straight, I’m feeling a [...]
Posted in Food & Drink on Aug 27th, 2008 5 Comments »
We have taco salad once a week in our house because it’s a big favorite. The kids get theirs wrapped in a corn tortilla, which they love, but the fallout can be frustrating (get it?!). One of my friends told me how she wraps her kids’ tacos in aluminum foil or plastic wrap to keep [...]
Posted in Food & Drink on Aug 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
A big bag of frozen drumettes was on sale this week, and one thing I hear often in this house is WHEN ARE WE GOING TO HAVE CHICKEN WINGS AGAIN? So I picked up a bag for an easy Saturday night dinner. I marinated the wings and drumettes in teriyaki sauce, broiled them, then borrowed [...]
Posted in Food & Drink on Jul 14th, 2008 3 Comments »
A friend made this salad a couple years ago for the sort of outdoor concert you bring a picnic dinner to and sit on a sweeping green lawn. It’s become one of our summer favorites because it’s everything you want in a summer dinner: fast, easy, one-dish, few ingredients, and chilled. I must warn you [...]
Posted in Bryan, Food & Drink on Jul 7th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’m in a cooking rut these days, so I’ll post another scrumptious meal Bryan whipped up. He made these breakfast tacos on the Fourth of July, and they were just delish. Scrambled eggs, shredded cheese, and fresh salsa in a corn tortilla. Yum! It’s amazing how much BETTER something tastes when someone besides you makes [...]
Posted in Food & Drink, Friendship on Jul 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Posted in Everyday, Food & Drink on Jul 1st, 2008 4 Comments »
Remember the snack drawer idea I wrote about? It was a total bust. The kids would eat half of what was in their drawer, then whine and moan and complain that they didn’t want what was left, that they wanted something else. When I realized the snack drawer was causing more drama than it was [...]
Posted in Bryan, Food & Drink on Jun 30th, 2008 3 Comments »
Bryan cooked for me all weekend, which is pretty much like porn for women, in my book. Beginning with dinner on Friday night, the pornography just didn’t stop. I’d had a really crappy day with the kids, and since he was able to come home early from work he offered to make dinner. So I [...]
Posted in Food & Drink on Jun 23rd, 2008 4 Comments »
First of all, someone needs to tell me what couscous is, exactly. I thought it was a pasta until my friend brought this salad to a picnic at the park and I was all, “Guess that South Beach Diet didn’t last long, DID IT?!” And she was all up in my face about how it [...]
Posted in Food & Drink, Friendship on Jun 14th, 2008 3 Comments »
I had dinner last night with a new friend at a new (to me) restaurant in the Big City. I parked my car a block away so as to not completely embarrass her with my well used, dented, unwashed mini van in need of a good decluttering – no sexy single girl wants to be [...]
Posted in Food & Drink on May 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
We took the kids to the lake today with their bikes – the lake nearby with a bandstand, a series of docks to run around on, and a couple restaurants. Quite spontaneously we decided to have lunch at the hamburger stand, and figured as long as we were going to eat crappy, we might as [...]
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