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Battle Plantains: One for the Road

March 26, 2011
Battle Plantains: One for the Road

For those of you who know me (or even those who don’t and read in my little space), these little Iron Chef get-togethers have been one of my favorite ways to spend time with friends over the past couple of years. For one, I get to cook, and that’s an easy way to make me happy. But for two, I get to see some of my favorite people, all in one room. We get a few short hours to chat, to drink decent wine, and to talk about food. If being with them wasn’t great enough as is, adding those elements only exponentially makes it better. I started Iron Chef as an excuse to hang out with friends and do all of those things I mentioned above. I didn’t realize it would last for two years, and I didn’t realize we’d pick up so many competitors, er, friends, along...

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Ain’t No Thang but a Chicken Wing

February 5, 2010
Ain’t No Thang but a Chicken Wing

Most of America is looking forward to this Sunday for one reason or another. Cooking sites, beer brands, restaurants, t-shirt companies, and even The Who are set to capitalize on the event, which is undoubtedly the most watched TV-broadcast in America. And while I do enjoy a good NFL match (especially since our ACC favorite has given us little reason to follow NCAA games), I clearly have an ulterior motive when it comes to the Super Bowl. That motive, friends, is food. Did you have to ask? February 7, 2010 is probably the only day of this year in which I will eat two heaping handfuls of chicken wings without a care in the world, as Jennifer will be whipping up some of her now-famous black pepper chicken wings and I’ll be making the ones you see here. It’s also the time of the year when Mark & Heather...

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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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