Category Archives: Grilling

Grilled beef with jalepano chimichurri

How are your New Year’s Resolutions going? Still holding strong after 17 days? If not, don’t be ashamed. The cleanse that Hubster and I embarked on only lasted about 48 hours before we decided the universe was conspiring against us and we should reschedule our “two weeks off drinking + eating super healthy” to February. […]

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Chicken with escabeche sauce

Despite the fairly high number of Asian dishes on this site, Mexican food is by far my favorite cuisine. I love it all. The seasoned meat, tortillas, fresh flour ones topped with butter and hot sauce or crispy corn pieces pilled high with salsa, oh, and salsa! I could eat salsa by the buckets. I […]

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Chicken spedini

The elections are over and I, for one, am so glad… and a bit tired from trying to stay up for The President’s speech. But, mostly, I’m glad because presidential elections have a unique way of dividing this country and sometimes bringing out the worst in people. That’s OK, because it’s over for now.   […]

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Grilled cilantro chicken

I’m pretty sure we approached perfection this weekend: – Bought way too much produce at the farmer’s market – Hit up Rooster for breakfast – Drove 30 minutes into Illinois to check out an used office furniture store (What? That’s not your idea of a good time) and were rewarded with a set of bowling alley lockers that […]

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Jerk Chicken

On Sunday we returned to Jamaica! Ok, not really. But this was better. There were no offers of pot, no cloud in the air (see aforementioned pot) and no fear of our living area being pillaged. It was all jerk – awesome, tender, spicy, smoky jerk.    This is it, guys! Or at least as close as we can […]

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