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Meal in a pot: baked mac and cheese

I think there’s one basic truth in this world that we can all agree upon: macaroni and cheese is freaking awesome. It’s like pizza-even when it’s bad, it’s still macaroni and cheese. There’s a de facto rule in my family that every holiday meal must contain at least one pan of baked macaroni and cheese. [...]

eat mor chikn: chicken and avocado panini

Farmer Lauren had a chicken, e-i-e-i-oooo, and with this chicken she made a sammich, e-i-e-i-ooo, with an apple slice here and an avocado there, here a spice and there a slice, eveywhere it’s nice nice, Farmer Lauren had a chicken avocado paniniiiiiiiii. This is one of those recipeless recipes. Pretty much you can insert just [...]

Nobody gets left behind: leftovers

What I do with leftovers: From the milk-roasted chicken on Sunday, I had two bone-in chicken breasts left over. What to do with them? Hm. Think. Think Think Think. Well, I also had some Spanish chorizo I picked up at Eastern Market on Saturday as well. Chorizo is a spicy, smoked pork sausage that comes [...]

Got Milk?

It was a pretty fantastic weekend all around on my end. Headed out to Detroit’s Eastern Market again on Saturday, which you know I love, and spent the afternoon making leek onion rings and bbq beef sandwiches. And today, Josh and I spent an hour learning how to make pasta carbonara and a pappardelle dish [...]

Pretend you’re a chicken…parmesan

I just want to state for the record that I’ve never made chicken parmesan and I didn’t actually look for a recipe for it before making this, but for the life of us, Josh and I just could not decide on what to have for dinner. I mulled over what we had in the house [...]

Piri piri, agua fresca and other fun words I ate today

Piri piri. Just say it, “piri piri.” It sounds adorable. It tastes delicious. It’s easy to make. It’s a win for everybody. Well everybody who likes to eat foods with fun names. I was on my own for dinner again tonight and after a lot of deliberation (seriously, I dwell at length on the existential [...]

When life gives you lemons, grill those sour little suckers

Josh is out at the Michigan Brewers Guild Summer Beer Festival right now and so it’s just me and the dog for dinner tonight. I enjoy these rare occasions for a couple reasons: I feel less bad if I screw up a recipe, and I get a chance to try out recipes that either I [...]

My Big Fat Greek..nah, that’s too obvious a joke.

The chicken was actually moroccan inspired, as was the flatbread…so…really the only Greek thing about this dinner was the tzatziki sauce. But whatever. I’ll skip talking about the chicken, having covered that before, and focus on the really important parts of this meal: the carbs and the dairy.

Farm Share Goodies: July 10

So I was extremely ticked when Josh brought home this week’s farm share on Tuesday because it included three of my favorite vegetables of all time: cabbage, potatoes (red skin!) and broccoli. Not only are all three of those foods extremely tasty, they’re also versatile and very healthy. Cabbage is not only low in calories [...]