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Don’t Eggspect Anything Fancy Here

June 14, 2009
Don’t Eggspect Anything Fancy Here

Ever have those days when, as much as you love cooking, you’d instead prefer to prepare something quick, simple, but utterly scrumptious all the same? I have those days too, although you might not believe me. I do. Promise. Particularly in the midst of finishing the 3rd quarter of culinary school, when I’ve just spent three consecutive nights cooking and baking my butt off (well, I wish – instead I seem to be baking more butt on than off…) in an industrial kitchen until 11 pm. Did I mention I work full time? Yeah, can you say t-i-r-e-d by the time Thursday rolls around? You bet. You see, all these fancy recipes you see in this blog, they’re generally made on the weekends. Now, I’ve definitely made things that I’d...

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Building Mussels without Breakin’ a Sweat

May 9, 2009
Building Mussels without Breakin’ a Sweat

We took our cats in for their annual vet visit a couple of weeks ago. And although my cat has always been on the larger side, she’s never been officially classified as fat. Well, not until this visit. We’d tried portioning out their food for the past year to avoid the inevitable weight gain, but we began to notice that my cat would eat not only her portion, but also the portion of her smaller, more timid sister. Two things wrong with that picture: my cat continues to eat too much, and the other cat doesn’t eat at all. Both will lead to poor outcomes… So anyway, after pondering various ideas, we came to a solution that will avoid both of the former scenarios. We’d feed the “non-fat” cat on the counter, since she can jump up with ease and the “fat” cat can’t, and we’d switch my cat...

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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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