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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.

the kid in me

While Josh and I do love our culinary explorations of things like grilled pizza and Moroccan Spice Chicken, sometimes we like to just go back to a couple of our childhood faves: Sloppy Joes and Kraft Mac and Cheese. Now, Josh doesn’t let me doctor up the Cheesy Mac too far beyond adding a bit [...]

So a chicken gets dressed up for the ball…

Chicken meatballs. Are like space. They are my final frontier.  There is so much to explore with them and yet, I’ve only been so far as the moon.  Which is made of mozzarella.  Not green cheese.  Well maybe it gets moldy from time to time. Anyway, it was an off-again-on-again rainy kind of day and [...]

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 [...]

This just looks really delicious…

…and it was. Grilled spiced chicken quarters (cumin, coriander, ancho chile powder, cinnamon, lemon, olive oil, salt, pepper and rosemary)

Tonight’s Dinner: Lemon Tarragon Chicken Kebabs with Bell Peppers, Squash and Pineapple

Moroccan Spice Chicken…so good you’ll want to lick your grill

When I was a kid I had, for some unknown reason, a total love of all things Moroccan.  Now, I’ve never been to Morocco (although I’d love to go some day), didn’t know anyone from Morocco, had absolutely no connection to the place whatsoever.  But it intrigued me, and still does to this day. So [...]

Linguine with Lemon, Swiss Chard and Chicken Meatballs

So this was tonight’s meal.  It was sort of a riff off a couple meals I’ve made before, a combination of  my “pasta with sausage and kale,” which was inspired by this recipe, and my chicken meatballs, which I love.  Normally my chicken meatballs are made with ground chicken breast, and sometimes with a bit [...]