Food

You Say Tomato…I Say Holy Crap

July 26, 2011

Holy crap. I have a lot of tomatoes. I have a lot of really great looking, beautiful heirloom tomatoes. They are delicious and pretty. Last night, I made some heirloom tomato sauce that was delicious. I’ll make more to freeze. I’ve already roasted and frozen some tomatoes for later use. I’ve eaten many raw with [...]

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Big Apple Nosh Chef’s Challenge: Peach & Mint

July 18, 2011

I was SO excited to participate in Big Apple Nosh’s 4th Chef’s Challenge this week, and when the secret ingredients were revealed as peach & mint, I thought “piece of cake!” Then, I thought…”piece of pie?” Then: “piece of peach mojitos?” “piece of peach mojito rum cake?” I then spiraled down into the realm of [...]

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The Things I’m Making Lately

July 14, 2011

Since my unemployment, I’ve made a vow to step up my game in the kitchen by trying new things and making more labor-intensive meals. Well, I’m happy to report to my internet friends that I have been working hard in the kitchen!! The other day when I decided to make hamburgers, I thought…why not make [...]

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July 4th Celebration

July 5, 2011

I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th! We celebrated by going over to our good friends’ apartment for some delicious food, drinks and fun! Jess and Chris cooked up one hell of a meal for us! At our request, Jess made her AMAZING shrimp wontons, of which I ate about 17. Roughly. Probably more. omg, [...]

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Tutti Fruiti

July 4, 2011

Just in case the title didn’t get the song in your head… Omg, I love the awesome 80′s people dancing. Waaaaooow! That’s better. A little background music for this post! Happy 4th of July everyone! I thought I’d celebrate on the blog by highlighting some sweet nuggets we’ve found at the Farmer’s Market the past [...]

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Working on my Fitness, Part Two

June 30, 2011

So.  The goal is to get back to my 17 year old body. To do this, I will have to climb in my time machine lose about 40 more pounds. My Eating Habits I eat mainly organic, unprocessed, whole, natural foods: Fruits, veggies, eggs, meats, whole grain bread etc. I like to take those organic [...]

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If You Plant, You’ll Grow

June 28, 2011

Our garden is in full swing by now! To give you some perspective, I’m 5’7″ and the plants are taller than me!  We have 8 varieties of larger heirloom tomatoes, and two cherry tomato plants that seem to be on their last legs (see below). Grow, grow, grow!  You will be so tasty! Peppers!!  We [...]

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Farmer’s Market Find: Beets

June 22, 2011

This might become a series that I do, where I’ll blog about one of our more unusual purchases at the Farmer’s Market, what we do with it, and how we like it!  If we don’t do anything unusual one week, I might just share my favorite recipe of the week.  How does that sound? Let’s [...]

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Screaming Zucchini

June 13, 2011

I didn’t feel like blogging last week.  Sorry.  Maybe it was because I nearly chopped my finger off, had to go to the ER, get a tetanus shot and got a resulting fever/sore throat/arm ache from the whole experience? Maybe that was it. See, I have a new kitchen toy:  a mandoline slicer. It’s not really [...]

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Going Organic

May 10, 2011

I consider Mike and I to be foodies to the core.  We love us some good wine and good food, and we just don’t feel right if we settle for sub-par or unhealthy choices.  We’ve never been a fast-food or chain restaurant couple–we usually avoid those places like the plague since oftentimes they are known [...]

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Spinach & Roasted Asparagus Salad

May 4, 2011

As soon as we got home from the Farmer’s Market on Sunday, I was excited to start planning out some meals. I got to work right away on a salad. Here’s what you’ll need: 1 bunch asparagus 1 bunch spinach 1 small red onion 3-4 slices prosciutto, torn into shreds whole grain mustard olive oil [...]

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