I’m a simple person. I don’t want much in life. A warm home, a happy family, an elephant, and a few good, simple meals. This dish basically evolved out of me wanting a tasty, light dinner but also not having gone grocery shopping in a week and not having any meat or anything thawed.
I had a few odds and ends in the fridge, including a tub of cremini mushrooms that I’d originally bought to make this garlic butter roasted mushroom recipe from Smitten Kitchen. Instead of making the recipe as is, I decided to use it as inspiration for this pasta dish. I want all of you health enthusiasts to note that there is no butter in this dish at all. So there.
Oh, but there are two tablespoons of duck fat. Yeah. (more…)
Wait, what’s that? You don’t brine your turkey? Mother of God. That’s like saying you hate puppies, or that 
Josh and I have been trying this radical new thing: “making our own lunches and taking them to work.” Innovative right?
Sunday was a busy day. I got out of bed–and that was an effort, let me tell you–and made breakfast, prepared bread dough, did the week’s grocery shopping, found out my Twitter account was hacked (again, apologies to all involved), roasted chicken, made stock, made soup and still managed to watch Squid Invasion on Netflix streaming and thoroughly freak myself out.
