The Kitchen Minions :

Butternut Squash and Black Bean Chili

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Dan here today.   Recently Beth and I have taken a few tentative steps up the cooking magazine pyramid.  While Real Simple will probably always be my favorite source of recipes (mainly because they are really simple), Beth[...]

Mix ?n Match Salad

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Dan here today.   Some of you may be wondering why I?ve been missing from the blog since my scintillating post about potatoes.  There is a simple explanation:  I?ve been hibernating. In general, as a Norseman, I laugh at[...]

Baby It?s Cold Outside?

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On Sunday, my Dad emailed my sisters and me to report that the record snow fall that he?s been dealing with is continuing this week.  Meanwhile, my Atlanta based sister reported that her weekend was filled with 70 degree weather. Needless to[...]

to clean or not to clean

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A few years ago I got a book about bad roommates and one of the stories was about a roommate that wouldn?t wash the soap off dishes.  The result seemed to be worse than not washing at all, they all got the runs.  This is an appetizing[...]

January in Review

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I don?t do resolutions, mostly because I forget about them and not doing them.  Instead, I have a plan to focus more and do one thing each week.  So, how did I do in January?  Pretty well   Weekend #1:   I bought[...]

Not everything is a success

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I?ve been having some great successes in the kitchen.  However, not everything has come up roses.  I have learned a lot from my failures though. Let me introduce you to the worlds ugliest macarons:   These are[...]

leftover delight

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I went through a short re-low carbing phase.  It lasted a week.  In that week I asked Dan to buy me some heavy whipping cream (mix diet root beer with heavy whipping cream.  Easy root beer float, So delicious!) Well, when my low carb[...]

Fun with Potatoes

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Dan here today.  Winter is a good time to find 5 or 10 lb bags of potatoes at the store for cheap, and since I?m part Irish, I would be betraying my heritage if I didn?t take advantage.  The question, of course, is what to do[...]

Nutella, Bread, and Pasta

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Dan here today.  Beth and I just got back from a quick trip to Roatan, a small island off the coast of Honduras.  The trip was ostensibly for a triathlon that I was competing in, but unfortunately the race did not go so[...]

It?s so fluffy!

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I?ve been trying to perfect a few of our mainstay recipes.  Sandwich bread and bagels are the two main ones I?ve made week after week.  I really enjoyed the flavor of my first bagel attempt, but the second batch of bagels not only had an[...]