Category: Food
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 6: Blistered Zucchini au Gratin
This recipe is from the Two Dudes One Pan cookbook I’ve got. I decided to tack this on as a side to the herbed flank steak with tomatoes that I did the other night because it looked pretty straightforward and very easy. It is, essentially, zucchini drizzled with some olive oil and then put under…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 5: Herbed Flank Steak with Tomatoes
I felt like grilling again last night, so I went over to my parents and offered to make them dinner. I returned to the grilling cookbook my friend had gotten me for Christmas, and decided to try out a recipe for flank steak (this recipe is also available online). I’m a big fan of flank…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 4: Orange-Chipotle Chicken
Last night my parents asked me to cat-sit at their place, so I decided to take advantage of the fact that they have a grill and do a recipe from a grilling cookbook a friend gave me for Christmas. I was originally going to grill some chicken in a bourbon-molasses sauce, but this seemed a…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 3: Classic Marinara
This is another one of the recipes I pulled from the Two Dudes One Pan cookbook. It’s used with the ricotta and pancetta-stuffed pork chops, but since I only used half of the sauce on the pork chops, I threw the other half in the freezer for a week or so with the intent of…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 2: Ricotta and Pancetta-stuffed Pork Chops
Last weekend I took a crack at a recipe from Two Dudes, One Pan, a cookbook that I got a few years ago and never really took a close look at. I was flipping through it a few weeks ago and figured that this would be a good one to try. The recipe also calls…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 1: Lasagna
I had mentioned previously that one of the things I want to do this year is try about 40 new recipes, either completely untested before, or revisits of family recipes that I haven’t ever done before. Last night I took a crack at lasagna, based on my grandmother’s recipe. Here goes: Grandma’s Lasagna 1 lb…
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Recipe: Rice Pilaf (Updated)
Previously, I had posted a recipe for a basic rice pilaf I cooked up out of my head. It had been a while since I had made this, and after my last few batches of wild rice turned out rather disappointing, I decided to head back to the pilaf. This time I decided to not…
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Recipe: Cheesy bacon potato skins
About a week and a half ago, I found myself itching to go bowling, not so I could make a fool of myself and maybe break 50, but because one of the bowling alleys around here has some really great cheesy bacon potato skins. I realized pretty quickly that going to the bowling alley specifically…
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An Awesome Weekend
Disclaimer: this is going to be a very, very long post. Friday I got the camera lens on my Evo fixed, so I can finally take clear pictures again. Take a peek… Before: my copy of Halo (which arrived a day late, by the way…way to go, Amazon) looking quite hazy. After: tasty chocolate covered…
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Recipe: Rice Pilaf
Sunday I had a few friends over and made an insanely awesome dinner with garlic-scented tomato salad, crusty french bread with garlic herb butter, chicken breasts stuffed with feta cheese, artichoke hearts, and roasted red bell pepper, mix greens salad, rice pilaf, and warm apple crisp for dessert. Delicious. I came up with the recipe…