Right before the new year is when you hear a slew of corny sayings pertaining to the last (blank) of the year such as “This is the last time I’ll see you this year”. I’ve decided to jump on that bandwagon and share with you all my last Restaurant Experience of the year, which just [...]
Read more →Holiday gift-giving was good to me. Oh so good… This Christmas morning on the living room floor of my parents’s house, I tore through wrapping paper like I was a child again. After examining the heavy square box in front of me, I got a feeling in my gut like no other. Remember when you [...]
Read more →There’s always a lot of hype around the Maine Lobster, but an overlooked and much more tasty (in my opinion) bounty from the sea is the elusive Maine Shrimp. The season begins in December so I always associate the taste with the Holiday Season and continues on until around April. Maine shrimp are much smaller [...]
Read more →So miss Holly has been on posting fire lately, and the rest of us have been slacking! As she wrote about some awesome food gifts she gave, I’m going to write about some awesome food gifts I received! My mom gave me a gift certificate to get myself a new crockpot and hand mixer (no [...]
Read more →I’ve been requesting this breakfast on Christmas morning for the past few years and will continue to request this meal for many years to come. Here’s the line-up: Potato pancake with a poached egg on top, served with a side of dressed greens and a mimosa. My dad makes potato pancakes very simply: grates the [...]
Read more →My mission this Holiday Season was to make gifts in my kitchen to give out to family and friends. Given more time I would have made a larger variety, but this season the two gifts my kitchen busted out were Grainy Mustard and Roasted Tri Color Peppers. I know I’m posting this after Christmas, but [...]
Read more →Last Thursday I got the most random an amazing holiday present from a woman in my office- Lobster. At first I was excited but almost viewed this gift as a burden- what am I going to do with two lobsters in an office at 7:30 in the morning? Things started looking up when I peered [...]
Read more →It has been freakishly cold here for the last week or so, and last night I contemplated turning on the heater. Then I remembered how scary the heater in this apartment is, then I remembered that all I needed to do to warm up the apartment was to do a little baking. I looked over [...]
Read more →This recipe is incredibly simple and great to serve at parties or on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Now that winter is here I find myself using more and more items out of the Pantry. I managed to pull this comforting black bean dip off with all items from my pantry (minus the cheese of course). [...]
Read more →Tyler Florence is one of my fav. foodnetwork celebrities. My mom bought me his cookbook for Christmas last year and I’ve made a few things out of it, but every time I passed the page with his recipie for “Arichokes with Sausage, Sage and Lemon” my mouth would start watering. My normal vegetarianism prevented me [...]
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