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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 24: Quiche
Last Christmas, I got 4 new cookbooks, plus a fifth on how to make 750 cocktails (I sense a 40 Cocktail Challenge on the horizon). This recipe, along with a few others that I’ve explored in recent months, comes from Cook This, Not That (available on Amazon for a ridiculously affordable price). The thing that…
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Spanked.
Tonight was supposed to be the first game of our outdoor season, but because we apparently got our allotted 2 days of sunshine between periods of heavy rain, the game was moved indoors to save us from tearing up the grass and turning things into a rugby-esque mess. A-TEAM opened the outdoor season against the…
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40 Recipe Challenge – An Update
Last year, one of my goals was to try 40 new recipes. I made it all the way up to 16. 2012 was not the best year for me. Since then, however, I’ve moved, purchased a grill (Weber Performer…as if there were any other choice), and really tore into the cookbooks. Below is a summary…
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Diminished mobility and a soccer hiaitus
Last Saturday night I did something to my knee. I’m not entirely sure what. The best explanation is probably a hyper-extension of the knee; imagine missing a step walking down a flight of stairs, only in mid-stride. I hit turf that was 3″ lower than the cement sidewalk I was expecting, and my knee snapped…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 16: Broccoli Cheese Soup
There are a handful of soups out there that I want to make one of these days. Seafood asparagus bisque, chicken enchilada, and broccoli cheese, among others. After crossing clam chowder off the list with an awesome recipe a few weeks ago, I decided to riff on that recipe and modify it for broccoli cheese…
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An outdoor season ended.
Tonight was A-TEAM’s last game outdoors until next spring. It seems odd that we should bring the season to a close already, but on the other hand, the timing feels right. Tonight’s game felt like it was played in a perpetual twilight, as if we were playing on borrowed time. The outdoor season is always…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 15: One-pot Chili
Fall is more or less here, and I’m in a mood to do soups, largely because they’re easy to make and make for a pretty good leftover during the week’s lunches. Since I had some canned Roma tomatoes I needed to use up and I wanted to clean a few other things out of the…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 14: Clam Chowder
A few weeks ago I decided that I wasn’t going to wait for the weather to cool down any more, so on a weekend when it was 80ish degrees outside, I made clam chowder. The recipe for said chowder came from my Two Guys One Pan cookbook, and it was amazing. This was the first…
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On working 6-3
On Monday I started working an adjusted schedule. Instead of showing up at 8 and working until 5 like most salaried people in a professional services industry, I began working 6-3. Apparently my history/habit of showing up some time between 7 and 7:30 made me a candidate for the early shift. Four days in, I’m…
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10Ks and kitchen misadventures
Yesterday was the second time I took a crack at at the Lakeshore Miracle Run 10K. As I mentioned after running it last year, it’s a hard 10K. I had forgotten just how long a climb up that dune it really is, and with not training at all for this run, I’m just glad to…
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