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Not Quite Wordless Wednesday: Passover

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on April 20, 2011

in beef, family, photography

Ok, almost Wordless Wednesday. You all know I can’t REALLY be quiet. I spent the past two nights at two different family Passover celebrations! Monday night, I went with Adam to his family’s seder, and didn’t quite feel right taking photos. Tuesday though, at my mom’s, I took advantage of the situation to take some [...]

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Cooking Shenanigans

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on March 31, 2011

in Baking, beef, dessert, friends, Italian, simple recipe

I’ve been out and about with my friend Ericka since she arrived on Monday afternoon… but, for Ericka and I, “out and about” includes things like going to fun grocery stores, coming up with recipes, cooking, and eating. Our friendship has pretty much always been like that, actually. We met in college when we shared [...]

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Wordless Wednesday

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on March 23, 2011

in beef, dinner out, photography

This was dinner. Behold the best Reuben in the world: I’m betting the 1.2 lbs I lost as of this morning have reappeared as water weight right… about… now.

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Winging It

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on March 10, 2011

in beef, random, simple recipe, vegetables, vegetarian

Thank you all so much for your supportive words on my last post! I think that with all your support, and of course the support of Adam and my family, I CAN DO THIS!! So, in the spirit of going healthier, I knew that tonight’s dinner had to be a complete trifecta: A good balance [...]

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A Whole New Slow

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on March 6, 2011

in beef, Italian

On Wednesday night, I was lucky enough to have the meal of my life. There were 21 courses of remarkable food, and while most of them were something I could never in a million years hope to recreate, there was one that I knew I could attempt. This one: I knew I couldn’t try the [...]

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Food : Art :: Alinea

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on March 3, 2011

in beef, dinner out, friends, pork, vegetables

I’ve waxed poetic about meals before. I’ve said before that a dinner was “the best ever”. I was wrong. I was invited by the lovely Jackie from I Am A Feeder to join her during the Chicago leg of her “great adventure” for the experience that is dinner at Alinea, the famous restaurant by chef [...]

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