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Marcia sent this along today; it sure does look tasty. She suggests I up the onion a little to make up for eliminating the garlic. Maybe “eliminating” isn’t the best word to use in this context…. SQUASH BISQUE WITH MAPLE AND BOURBON Kurt Friese Here’s a simple soup that can be made using any winter […]

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I hopped on the scale yesterday morning and was gratified to see it read 183.4 lbs. That’s down from 200 two months ago. You’re asking yourself, “But how did you do it? Atkins? Starvation?” Neither. I’ve identified three key areas that resulted in my successful bid to shed my winter weight gain: No beer More […]

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One of the things I’ve tried to keep up on, at least a little bit, during all this Ava madness is my cooking. I have a freezer in the basement (thanks, Harvey and GG!) that’s packed full of tasty organic pork and Greazel beef. So yesterday I defrosted a pork shoulder and tried to come […]

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So some bored beer drinker came up with the idea for the United States Beer Drinking Team, an inspired contrivance that celebrates the team-based enjoyment of American beer and sells funny t-shirts. From the site: We believe that beer drinking is a team event. You never want to drink alone. It’s always better to drink […]

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Hot off the presses. Our friend and trusty source of drama Annette (via her new friend Andrew, as it happens) just sent this perverse recipe for a sushi parody that is easily one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen this week (this doesn’t bode well for the rest of the week). To the four […]

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Marcia was telling me the other day about some pork chops she made. They sounded good. So I decided to make a facsimile for dinner tonight. Very simple. Four chops breaded in bread crumbs and parmesan cheese. I think Marcia just pan fried hers, but I fried mine and then baked them at 375 for […]

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Well, the knock on the head was worth it. Mark’s Headbanger White Chicken Chili took the blue ribbon among six other contestants today in the office chili cookoff. Even better, Becky’s pecan pie took first in the pie category, so it was all blue ribbons for our department! I actually voted for a different chili […]

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So I’ve entered this chili cookoff at work. No big deal. I’m making a white chicken chili recipe of my mom’s, which is quite tasty. I find out yesterday that the guy at the office who’s widely considered the chili champ is also making a white chicken chili. I suppose I can only hope his […]

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I made this recipe (doubled) for the recent progressive dinner we had with a group of friends. It turned out well. I wish I would’ve had some real mayo and white wine on hand to use in place of Miracle Whip and lemon juice, but it was tasty all the same. Served with an assortment […]

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Now we’re getting somewhere. bOINGbOING comes across with a story today on a Danish unit that’s released a beer recipe under a Creative Commons license. I’ve always toyed with the idea of brewing my own beer, but when I had the time and freedom to do it (college), I was living in a house subject […]

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