Category Archives: Main dish

Beef and barley soup

We recently changed cafeteria vendors at work and I’m definitely going through an adjustment period. The last vendor had me totally spoiled with tomato soup. Their soup station had 4 spots for soup that rotated throughout the week, but over in a separate corner, next to the crazy sandwich lady (just don’t get in line […]

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Shan style simmered cabbage and beef

Ok. This is it. No more slump. I’m calling it. Sorry for the absence. Can we still be friends? (Say “yes” because I have a ridiculous breakfast to post later this week and you want to be around for it.) How have you been? I’ve been busy. So busy that I keep falling back to tried and true recipes (like making […]

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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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Sweet potato chili mac

Oh, friends. I’m sorry for the absence. Life has been moving at an unusually fast pace… and you know that means a lot coming from me. I have no good excuse for not visiting with you for over a week. Work, life, preparations for my brother’s wedding (ok, mostly work) just got in the way. […]

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