I wrote this post last night… twice. And it got eaten by Ecto TWICE. It was a lovely post where I was waxing poetic about the lovely spices in these creative and delicious chicken burgers I’d come up with last night… and then when I went to hit “publish” the post disappeared. I’d even saved [...]
Today was one of those days where I didn’t want to do ANYTHING. I made it out of the house to pick up some yarn for a project, but that was the extent of it. It was 17 degrees and there’s snow on the ground and becoming one with my couch seemed like the best [...]
I have had a crazy craving for taco soup for the LONGEST time now, and I finally remembered what needed to go into it WHILE I was at the grocery store! I’d made many different taco soup recipes, and this one that I threw together was really good, and SO SIMPLE! Really, the extent of [...]
All through college, I loved to pretend that I could cook. Wait, that’s not quite right. I used to like to pretend I could cook fancy food. In all reality though, I could make a few things very well. Pizza Chicken Ratatouille Baked pasta (made with a jarred “baked pasta” sauce) Lemon chicken w/noodles Turkey [...]
Adam and I had errands to run this afternoon, so after I went on a 30 minute walk OUTSIDE in the COLD (but sunshine!), we went out. We picked up a couple things from the computer store, and then tried to decide what to do for dinner. We decided to heed the sign… “Hot Dog [...]
by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on December 9, 2008
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Growing up, my mom used to make a delicious thing that she lovingly called “pizza chicken”. Once I was older, I realized that pizza chicken was just a kid-friendly name for chicken parmesan! I can remember very vividly the day in college when I was determined to make “pizza chicken” for my group of 5 [...]
by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on November 24, 2008
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The first time I made the recipe I made tonight, I intentionally started cooking it before Adam got home from work. Why? Well, for one, it has onions in it, which he doesn’t like. The other reason is the true one… this meal has an unorthodox ingredient in it: Diet Coke! I know, I know, [...]