Ground Beef Ahoy (AKA Delightful Burgers + A Horrible Excuse for Shepherd’s Pie)

So at some point in the not too distant past, a large mound of ground beef crawled into my freezer. Up until recently, my thoughts toward it, when it got thought of at all, were vague and murky and took on spaghetti-like forms. Then suddenly, I was showered with gifts from the Tomato Deities while [...]

Hearty Miso Soup

I generally enjoy ‘fusion food’. This is because of the theory that a restaurant generally does not attempt to serve fusion food unless it has a firm grasp on all of the different types of food it is attempting to merge together. While I don’t really have a firm grasp of anything, much less the [...]

BLT of Joy

Summer is a glorious time, indeed. This is because Summer is the time when all of the delicious tomatoes come out to play. They just love crawling inside my sandwiches! And where go the tomatoes, soon goes the bacon.
I have a weird relationship with bacon, see. It’s weird, or rather, it stands in contrast to [...]

Magical berries, in cookie form!

A magical boon befell Drew and I this past Saturday. It was a ‘getting lost while going to one’s intended hiking destination, and ending up in an area extremely overripe with raspberries’ kind of day. Much picking was had, about 2-3 quarts worth I’d say. Glorious it was. There are the makings for many many [...]

Fruity Salmon with Mango and Pineapple

Hot dang is it hot out! And of course, when it’s hot out and I’m hungry, the best thing to do is to eat like I live somewhere even hotter then where I currently live! Thus, the practice of baking meats floating in puddles of tropical fruit.
This particular instance of said practice involves salmon. This [...]

All About Cookies (Vegan or Otherwise)

As I rule, I tend to think of ‘delicious vegan baked goods’ as an oxymoron. But only in the ‘vegan’ attached to ‘delicious baked goods’ sense. I have had food that is both delicious and vegan. I have had more experiences then I could ever count where I’ve had ‘delicious’ plus ‘baked goods’. In any [...]

Super Chicken Salads!

Oh, the Chick-fil-a, it goes so fast.
Featured today are the salads made of the straggling remnants of chicken from the Cow Appreciation Day debacle of several day’s past. Let’s just say it was good while it lasted.
A box of 4 chicken strips is entirely suitable as well as wholesomely appropriate for festooning the [...]

Cow Appreciation Day 2008

I will do many things for free food. I am also always interested in a good excuse to dress up and look ridiculous. Therefore, Cow Appreciation Day, a.k.a. the day all Chick-fil-a locations give a free combo meal to anyone who dresses up like a cow, was right up my alley. If you at least [...]

Maple Apple Crisp, AKA The Terrain of Joy

You will now be presented with the sort of luscious terrain that makes you wish dirt was the fourth point on the food pyramid. Or rather, food stepladder. Or whatever the hell they call that new ‘what you’re technically supposed to be eating instead of the crap you usually eat’ diagram.
This is maple apple [...]

Lusty Cheesesteak

At entirely too many restaurants, a serving is defined as the average amount of food eaten in the average meal of a 6 1/2 foot person who weighs 300 lbs (give or take a few lbs). For those who are shorter and smaller, this means a much larger then average meal by far. And it’s [...]

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