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Super Bowl Eats 2010: Hummus with Chipotle

February 7, 2010

Last year, I made some bacon-blue cheese dip, that, while well-received, was not exactly light on the calories. I wanted to do something year that was a bit different– but something I’d like to eat the rest of the week. I peeked around Epicurious and found a recipe for hummus that had chipotles [...]

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Marcella Hazan’s Simple Tomato Sauce (and another contest)

February 3, 2010

I really love to cook, and am finding myself cooking more often now that I have a big, spacious kitchen to cook in (and we’re no longer doing that dual residence thing, which can be a pain). One night this week I wanted to cook, but didn’t want to do anything complicated. Easy [...]

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L’shana tova!

September 19, 2009

To my Jewish friends, a very sweet new year!
A traditional Rosh Hashanah dish is apple cake– I’m linking to a couple of recipes here both for my reference (man, do I love apple cake!) and in case you’re looking for a recipe.
Smitten Kitchen’s (which looks amazing), made in a tube pan for lots of apple [...]

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Recipe: Baked Beans

July 9, 2009

One of the very first meals Terry made me involved baked beans– a stovetop recipe, that involved lots of onions, and it was delicious. Later, he made me this really wonderful oven variety, that involved pineapple and French’s onions. For a party at our friend’s house on the 4th of July, I combined [...]

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An Old Friend: The Peanut-Banana Smoothie

June 29, 2009

(Guest post by The Boyfriend)
Julie and I have been on a smoothie kick lately.
Virtually every summer, I rediscover at least one favorite recipe.  It’s usually an old reliable standby that, for any number of reasons, dropped off the radar for a few years.  Last year, it was bourbon slushes.  (Hmm…I need to make a batch [...]

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Review: City View Tavern

June 8, 2009

Ever since I started this blog (and divulged that Terry and I really  like a good burger), I’ve heard the same thing over and over again: “You have to try Cityview!”  Located in Mt. Adams, City View Tavern is known for a couple of things: Bloody Marys and burgers.
I’ll be honest– I hadn’t even wandered [...]

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Review: Slims Northside

May 22, 2009

It’s really hard to write a “review” of Slim’s because every meal is different.  Though the food always has a distinct Latin American flair, you will never eat the same meal there twice.  The menu is fresh, seasonal, and grown– quite literally– around the corner, in one of the very first “kitchen gardens” in Northside [...]

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Recipe: Boeuf Bourguignon, a la Anthony Bourdain

February 14, 2009

When I started this blog a year ago, one of the very first meals I made and semi-photographed was beef bourgignon.  Freshly arrived from France, I wanted to make some food similar to what we had there.  This hit the spot, and is great for a cold winter’s day.
Strangely, this is the only photo I [...]

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Recipe: Bacon-Blue Cheese Dip

February 12, 2009

I like bacon.  What omnivore doesn’t?  The week of the Super Bowl, Serious Eats did a recipe a day that involved bacon.  I saw this one, and just had to try it.  It starts off with onions fried in bacon grease– how can it be bad?  I made it twice, once for a Super Bowl [...]

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Christmas Breakfast: Brueggers’ bagels and salmon

December 26, 2008

One of Terry’s favorite breakfasts in the winter is bagels with smoked salmon, capers, red onion and cream cheese. He’s big into Christmas decorations, so he always serves it on a cute Santa plate.
Bagels are always Everything bagels from Brueggers (which, aside from Marx, are the closest in texture to a NY bagel you [...]

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