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Fake Takeout: Shrimp Fried Rice I don’t like to go out. If the pandemic taught me anything, it’s just how much I love staying home. While other people were discovering cooking and baking and crafts like they had just been invented, I was able to …
Cooking Sort of Italian with an Italian Skillet Dinner Have we ever discussed how I found out I am part Italian? I can’t remember. My dad, retired and bored, decided to look into our background. His parents were pretty easy. Almost everyone in his family …
Is it a Pizza or a Quesadilla? It’s a Mexican Pizza Quesadilla! Can something be both a pizza and a quesadilla at the same time? It is, of course, a deep philosophical question, one for the ages. And yes, I have decided – because I …
Baked Feta Pasta – Without the TikTok I love feta cheese and tomatoes and red onions, so making this baked feta pasta seemed like a no-brainer. Apparently it was a thing on TikTok? The only thing I know about TikTok is that it has influenced …
My New Takeout Fakeout: Honey Sesame Chicken My husband and I aren’t super big into eating out. We’re pretty conservative with the way we spend money (that’s a polite way of saying sort of cheap), so extra things, like restaurants and ordering in aren’t really …
A New Way to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day: Guinness Beef Stew In my quest to find new alternatives to corned beef and cabbage, I have created this beef stew with Guinness, an Irish stout. Stout? I generally don’t drink, so I have no idea what …
The Quiche Basics My mom sense really kicked in after last week’s recipe, chocolate peanut butter cup bars. They were delicious, but not exactly nutritious, and I’m feeling a little guilty – like I should be feeding you better. Which is why today, we will …
This week we experienced both spring and winter. New York has a hard time making up its mind like that. At present, we are immersed in winter, and as we reach the end of December, it looks like the cold will be sticking with us …
I will go to very great lengths to avoid crowds. I live next to a giant mall (I can literally see the lights from my bedroom), but I only ever order things online. Groceries? Target run? Only very early before most people are out. Not …
As I write this post just a couple of days after Thanksgiving, we are still drowning in turkey. We have a really small family, so something more the size of a large chicken would probably do, but an 11 pound turkey was the smallest I …
