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Hunger is the best sauce–if you add pomegranates and cream

I had some time to waste the other day after work and since it was a beautiful day, I decided to walk down to the Kerrytown Market and pick up something for dinner.  I was thinking, some chicken to grill would be great.  We’d been eating a lot of pork and beef and I was [...]

At the kofta, kofta cabana…

Josh and I are trying a new thing this month: not spending half our take home pay in food costs.  Radical, I know.  Especially when there’s only two of us.  Well, and Winston, but he doesn’t get people food, much to his dismay.  But between eating out fairly often (especially lunches during the work week, [...]

OMGWTFBBQ

Barbecue.  Is quite possibly my favorite. food. of all time.  Now read it back again but like Will Shatner. Seriously, I love barbecue.  I could eat it all the time and, like any good connoisseur, I have my opinions about what constitutes good barbecue.  For starters, throwing a chicken breast on the grill and slathering [...]

The Immunity Boosting Salad

So I’m on my own again today.  And still sick.  It’s been over a week at this point and while I don’t feel terrible, I just can’t get the congestion, tiredness and fever to go away. Well it’s moved on towards lunch time and I need to eat something.  I don’t have a car today, [...]

Dinner for one, mmmque?

Cumin-Crusted Pork Quesadillas Feeds One or Two 4-5oz pork tenderloin filet 1 tbsp cumin seed 1 tsp garlicky steak rub 1/5 stick of cinnamon 1 tbsp olive oil 2 medium (or taco size) flour quesadillas 1 c. refried black beans 2 tbsp hot salsa 2oz shredded Mexican blend cheese 2 tbsp chopped green onion

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.

When the moon hits your eye like a grilled pizza pie….ow. That’s gotta hurt.

Josh and I had a late-ish dinner tonight and decided to go with something light and easy: grilled pizzas.  We were encouraged by our first efforts to try it again…because it’s delicious. Going off a tip from Jodi (thanks Jodi!) about sprinkling garlic salt on the crust, I doctored ours up with a bit of [...]

Farm Share Goodies: July 17….and Steak!

This week’s farm share brought in some great goodies: most notably, our first bulb garlic!  Yay!  Also more Swiss chard and kale and bulb fennel, which we donated to family/friends, kohlrabi, broccoli, bok choy, new potatoes and chives. Kohlrabi is an interesting little plant that I’ve wanted to try before but never bothered to purchase.  [...]

Porky's Revenge: In Pictures

(bone-in pork shoulder roast) + (lemon, spice mix and olive oil) x (combine and marinate in a bag over night) Then (wrap tightly in tin foil and place on grill over medium heat; lower lid and cook about 4 hours) = (barbecue pork roast!) !