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Chicken Shawarma Roll-Ups

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on May 15, 2012

in chicken/turkey, grilling, simple recipe, South Beach Diet

**WARNING** **If you have yet to see The Avengers and are planning to, within this post are spoilers!** **Seriously. I’m going to talk about the super-secret scene at the very end of the credits.** **No angry comments that I “OMG GAVE SOMETHING AWAY”** **You have been warned** Growing up where I did, I was exposed [...]

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Blue Plate Special: Classic Patty Melts

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on May 4, 2012

in beef, simple recipe

Occasionally, Adam and I fall victim to the very problem that this little blog is supposed to solve: What the heck to we eat for dinner? Usually, I can throw something mediocre together with what’s in the house, but when the rogue head of cauliflower has gone mushy, and there’s not a leafy green to [...]

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The Meaty Avolicious

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on August 16, 2011

in beef, grilling, simple recipe

After a long day at camp, I want simple food. Case and point: I had tuna salad last night. Tonight, I threw some skirt steak in some lime juice, salt, and pepper and grilled it. I sliced up avocados. I mixed some mayo with adobo from a can of chipotle peppers. I grilled the steak. [...]

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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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Best of Two Worlds

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on February 21, 2011

in Baking, simple recipe

Have you voted today for my Wonderful POMcakes? Before I moved in with Adam, I lived in this wonderful neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago. It was notoriously a Polish neighborhood, but its true appeal lay in who lived a mere few blocks away. Lizz (and infant Skylar) and our good friend Greg lived [...]

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