red meat

Irony

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on September 21, 2010

in beef, chicken/turkey, friends, simple recipe

***Thank you all again, for your votes for me on Project Food Blog! Voting ends on September 23!*** Back in high school, Lizz and I had a fairly out of control obsession with the song of the moment, as most high school girls do. However, this song wasn’t the “it” song by the cute boy [...]

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Gilt is Good

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on August 3, 2010

in dinner out, family, friends

Ok, I promise, this is the last birthday-related post since, well, my birthday was almost a week ago. On Saturday night, a group of my closest friends and family joined Adam and I at Gilt Bar, a new gastropub here in Chicago. I’d heard a few great things about it in recent months, but the [...]

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Wednesday in Numbers: Baseball Edition

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on June 30, 2010

in beef, dinner out, family, friends, weight loss

Happy Wednesday all! Hope you’ve had a great day… I definitely did, and am quite exhausted. You’ll see exactly why in a minute! I’m glad to see you’ve all liked the return of Wednesday in Numbers, so I’ll keep with it for the next 8 weeks, if you don’t mind. 209: Campers in attendance today [...]

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Another Keeper

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on June 6, 2010

in beef, Mexican/Latin, vegetarian

I can remember being in elementary school and very very rarely buying school lunch. Usually, I brought my nut butter (sometimes peanut, sometimes almond, sometimes cashew) with preserves (sometimes apricot, sometimes strawberry, NEVER grape) on whole wheat bread, fruit, and graham crackers most days. There were, however, the occasional school lunch days when I just [...]

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Memorial Day

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on May 31, 2010

in beef, family, family recipe, pork

I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day, whatever it was that you did with your day I spent much of the morning relaxing and baking bread for my mom’s barbecue this afternoon. I ended up making two types of bread since I thought the first didn’t come out well…but I was wrong! Type [...]

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Just Roasting

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on May 25, 2010

in beef, Italian, simple recipe

Well, I spent today roasting in my classroom. (No windows + 2 fans = stuffy classroom!) I spent my commute home roasting in my car. (Car A/C + stuck in traffic in the sun = not so cool) I spent my early evening roasting… food! We’re still trying to figure out what’s up with our [...]

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