Food Friday: The Antidote for Sleep Deprivation

For those of you following along at home, you might recall that I have 3.5-year-old and a 1.5-year-old here. If you do the math and include the pregnancies, the teething, the ear infections, the things that go bump in the night and the internal springs that jolt them out of bed at unspeakably early hours…

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Food Friday: Liveblogging Recipe Roulette

I have NO idea what we’re having for dinner tonight. When I’m on my game, I kind of have a rough idea what the week looks like, but this week I’ve been decidedly off my game with a big work crunch, so it has been willy-nilly, who-needs-to-eat-anyway all week long. I feel like I’ve made…

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Food Friday: Merepoint Banana Bread

If you haven’t figured it out by now, I would rather bake anything, anyday than cook. I do love cooking, but I REALLY, REALLY love baking. Given that, I’m often trying to figure out things I can bake that offer some nutritional value and that won’t clog our arteries and make our thighs look like…

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Food Friday: French Bread. Yes, I said French Bread.

Bread making, like spectacularly detailed needlework or translating hieroglyphics, is one of those things that just wows people. And while I could never produce detailed needlework or spell my name in hieroglyphics, I CAN make bread. But here’s the thing—you can, too. It couldn’t be easier, especially if you have a stand mixer with a…

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Food Friday: Skinny Pot Pie and Skinny Mac-n-Cheese

Before I get on with today’s exciting post I have a little bit of housekeeping to take care of. (You can file this under the category of NOT THAT YOU ASKED AND WHY, EXACTLY, DO I THINK YOU CARE?) I think I unfairly represented the number of page views I get, and since so many…

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Food Friday: Island Pork Tenderloin Salad

At the risk of sounding like a complete tool or the ultimate parody of a food columnist, I can seriously say this: our good friends from California cooked this for us at their seaside home one summer evening and this savory delicious meal, seasoned with great company and a fantastic view, had us hooked from…

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