Monthly Archives: February 2011

Crowd Pleaser

February 23, 2011
Crowd Pleaser

Eat, drink, and be merry. That’s what happened this past weekend. Who am I kidding? That’s what happens every weekend. Except this time, we didn’t just spend it with a few people; we spent it with a condo-full of people. There was a lot of chocolate involved. Also, cheese, but more on that later. We’ll be talking party food for a while in these parts. I ‘advertised’ a party with ‘snacks’, and as a direct result of my inability to choose between all the things I wanted to make, we ended up with plenty of food, and good thing because most of it was put to good use. Cheryl and Luke were lucky enough to get to help out with some of the snack-making since they came in Thursday night, but they didn’t seem to mind being put to work. Me? I love having people to cook with, and...

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Leftover Central

February 18, 2011
Leftover Central

I found a turkey in my freezer a few weeks ago. What? Yeah, that’s right. Our CSA, which although I did love it I’m glad it’s finally finished because we had way too much food, included a rather large turkey right before Thanksgiving last year. Generally, I’d think that was pretty great, because we could use a turkey around Thanksgiving, but we’d already ordered ours since Chris likes his heritage turkeys and the farm we ordered from last time sold out quickly. That said, I’ve never been one to complain about having too much meat around the house (that’s what she said). The down side with the turkey, however, is that it took up a lot of precious space in that little freezer of ours. So after Christmas I vowed to roast that sucker, and have turkey leftovers for days. Strangely enough, I’ve never roasted a turkey before. That’s...

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Feature

The Gut Buster

Eating good, healthy food is an admirable goal. It’s a really good goal. Sometimes though, it’s just. so. dang. hard. Ya feel me? Exhibit...

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