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Artichorizo

It’s almost officially summer. Which in Michigan means that any given time, it is either thunderstorming or it’s 85 degrees. For me, late spring is an important time. The students leave and campus is nice and quiet. The markets open. The farm shares begin. The hot dog stands come out. The garden gets planted. My [...]

Wrap it up: shredded pork and red pepper salad

I like weekends that are both productive and lazy. Productive as in “I made a lot of delicious food.” Lazy as in “said delicious food require very little effort on my part.” It’s nice. It was a good way to spend the last weekend of January 2011, alternating between lounging on the couch with Josh [...]

Comfort Food: Three Little Pig Chili

It was ungodly cold in Michigan this weekend. A high of 14 yesterday. Fourteen. No, I didn’t really mean to type 41. The 1 and the 4 were in the correct locations. 14 degrees. Fahrenheit. I don’t know about you, but in my opinion, 14 is not a temperature. It’s an awkward time in adolescence, [...]

Baked Pumpkins: tasty meal in its own adorable bowl

Ever since we got a couple of adorable little pie pumpkins in our farm share back in October, I’ve planned on making this dish. Sure, it’s two months after that, but thanks to the wonders of living in a 150 year old brick house that doesn’t retain heat very well, the pumpkins were still good [...]

This day is tamales! T-A-M-A-L-E-S!

“Like awesome! Oh, wow! Like totally freak me out. I mean, right on! Tamales sure are number one!” Oh come on. I know that every single one of you use cheers from Bring It On in your daily life. But we have more important things to discuss than Kirsten Dunst’s witty, razor-sharp cheer-snark. We have [...]

Are you ready for the coming aporkalypse?

This post is Not Safe For Vegetarians. I had a delicious dinner last night. “But, Lauren!” you say, “You have a delicious dinner most nights.” And you’re right, you crazy kid, you. But last night was especially delicious. I dunno, maybe it was the Lauren-friendly sunny, hot weather. Maybe it was the light, fresh romaine [...]

Pork, Poblano and Black Bean Stew: the Blustery Day Fix

Oh, Internet. How I’ve missed you. Let me tell you, I’ve had quite a week. The first week of May is always a terrible one for me, at least for the last few years. It is actually the busiest week of my entire year. Those of you who know me in the “Real World” (I’m [...]

Meatballs: A Love Story

This week has been a massive failure, culinarily speaking. I think I ate out half the week, with the exception of last night, when Josh made Kraft Mac for us for dinner because I was too lightheaded to do anything but fall asleep after a very long day at work during which I ran around [...]

Meat and Potatoes: the Green Edition

You know, I could wax on at length about this dinner and how it was all inspired by this recipe find of spinach artichoke hummus from Gimme Some Oven. I could tell you how I needed an end-of-the-week pick-me-up, healthy yet tasty, and how the mention of pork chops at work (which happens a lot [...]

Tell everybody that we’re having a party

It was a busy weekend. On Friday I baked several pies for a charity bake sale. And on Saturday, well… We needed to cut down a line of small trees by our driveway, as several were dead and falling down already. My mom and step-dad took the wood. As the trees were a fair-height and [...]