Iron Chef Battle

Shit Your Parents Made

August 30, 2011
Shit Your Parents Made

Before you get hasty with me for having a box of Velveeta on my blog, hold your horses. First, no less than 8 years ago (maybe even less…), making Velveeta was synonymous with “a good dinner in” – especially the one with the broccoli bits. Second, this isn’t what you think – I have not turned to a life of processed food, and I’m not about to squirt cheese into my mouth or break out the bag of Friday’s Potato Skins. But check this out – I DO have something exciting to tell you, and that’s this: Iron Chef is back!!! Holla! Back when we were bayside and shuckin’ oysters over too much wine, a few of us started talking about dinner party ideas, and somehow the foods of our youths were weaved into the convo. In general, we chatted about how our food choices have changed so much...

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A Proper Send-Off

April 15, 2011
A Proper Send-Off

It isn’t often that one has to actually leave a job they like. In fact, I’m willing to bet that most of you never have, am I correct? Sure, there may be high points here and there, but in general we leave jobs because we choose to, because we want to, rather. I’ll be starting my new job on Monday, and hopefully I’ll like that one. No matter what, I will always compare it to the one I left back in Chicago, the one I most certainly chose to leave, but at the same time, the one I definitely didn’t want to leave. As is the case with most jobs, it isn’t even the actual job that matters, it’s the people you work with that make it what it is. For me, it was both, but easily a lot more of the latter. If you’ve been reading along, you’ll remember...

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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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