Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who voted in my most recent poll. I have a hope that I will be able to keep anyone awesome enough to read about my food adventures, interested and entertained for a very long time. In order to do that, I like to get your input every [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Make Your Own Takeout’
May 19, 2009
Fancy Schmancy Chicken Sammie
Okay, can you say inspiration? I always seem to get food inspiration at the weirdest times, for instance, when I’m sick at home with the flu or even at 2a.m. when I can’t sleep a wink. That being said, the idea for this sandwich came to me at the most obvious time possible, while grocery [...]
March 16, 2009
Almost Blackened Chinese Chicken
This Make Your Own Takeout installment made a fantastically quick and easy Saturday night supper. It involved absolutely no planning (with the exception of defrosting the chicken), and honestly came together as I went along. After work last Saturday, I threw together the marinade, added the chicken, and went for a nice long bike ride [...]
March 9, 2009
Healthified: Pastelillos
A pastelillo is basically the Puerto Rican version of an empanada. I grew up eating them and definitely consider them a comfort food. One more plus…DH is practically a slave to them! The only problem is, they basically consist of deep-fried pastry dough and greasy ground beef: not exactly figure-friendly. While I don’t want to [...]
February 28, 2009
My Foodbuzz True Delights Contest Entry-Spicy Shrimp and Cashew Fried Rice
As a part of Foodbuzz’s partnership with Quaker, they developed a foodie recipe contest. All entries had to feature at least one of the nine key ingredients in the new Quaker True Delights Granola Bars, of course, the predictable thing would be to submit a sweet rather than a savory recipe, but as anyone can [...]
February 2, 2009
Super Slammin’ Super Bowl Buffalo Wings
As in most of America’s households, Super Bowl Sunday is a special occasion in my home. It’s a day full of food, booze, good company, and patriotism. Of course, for a foodie like me, it’s just a great reason to cook tasty food for people I care about. As retro as it might seem, I [...]
December 17, 2008
Just To Hold You Over: Buffalo Chicken Calzones
Okay, so I know the poll winner was supposed to be my next entry, but I won’t have time to go to the grocery store until the weekend. So, just to hold you over until then, after getting some suggestions from my friends on the What’s Cooking board, I decided to make Buffalo Chicken Calzones [...]
December 9, 2008
Perfectly Simple Hot Cocoa
Like most people, DH and I are super-excited for the holidays this year and we’ve been talking about drinking cocoa while writing Christmas cards, since the weekend. We didn’t actually get to it until yesterday but, the cocoa was all the better on a cold night, after a long day at work. Here’s what I [...]
December 1, 2008
Taking The Turkey Up A Notch
Okay, so, leftovers and me don’t really have a great history. Once I’ve had something for dinner and then for lunch the next day, I get insanely bored and won’t touch the stuff again no matter how much I still have left. By the way, I also hate wasting food so I usually force feed [...]
November 6, 2008
Spicy Kafta With Yogurt Sauce
Low on groceries and even lower on money, I took out some ground beef to defrost this morning. I’m all out of potatoes and we already had rice and pasta this week, so I wasn’t sure what I was going to make. I did have about half a box of whole wheat couscous. So, I’m [...]
