Slow Cooker Adventures and Chicken Udon Soup

So I impulse bought half a chicken the other week. Yeah yeah, other people impulse buy Doritos and donuts and such, and I apparently buy poultry. Well, and donuts. And Doritos. So it goes. The slightly colder weather’s got me thinking about soup, so I decided to cram the half a chicken into my slow [...]

Chicken & Dumplings for Easter!

So yeah, Happy Easter/Passover/Pagan Renewal/Zombie Jesus/Etc. day! As for exciting holidays, I’m pretty stoked about Discount Chocolate Monday, and am looking forward to claiming many Reeses eggs as my own. We didn’t hit up any relatives today, so I totally made what is essentially the laziest possible meal that one could make that still looks [...]

Chillin’ at the Thai Basil

So Asian restaurants in Denver are awesome. This is because pretty much every Chinese place I’ve eaten in thus far also has Vietnamese and Thai food. Which makes it significantly more difficult for me to default to my usual sesame chicken at such places, as it conflicts with my desperate desire to eat red curry [...]

Freaking awesome Indian food from Yak & Yeti

Despite my prolific desires to cook everything and anything I hear about that sounds even remotely appetizing, it does not necessarily mean that others want to eat what I cook. Specifically, I speak of parents. Drew and I were both recently inundated with visits from parentals, and both visiting sets preferred to eat out rather [...]

Guest Post: 2010 Cow Appreciation Day at Chick-fil-a

This week’s guest post is from none other then Drew! Having already earned a year’s supply of Chik-fil-a (as told previously) last winter, you might think that we don’t see a need for additional free chicken. You might think that, but you’d be wrong. We’re always up for free Chik-fil-a! And so, for this year’s [...]

Pineapple Curry Fried Rice

I’ve been in the habit lately of acquiring large piles of random vegetables with no specific ideas as to how to use them. After stumbling across a recipe for fried rice that looked absolutely fabulous, I decided to have at it with all these wacky vegetables lounging around in my fridge. I’m such a sucker [...]

Thai Stir Fry, plus a way to find exciting new Asian recipes!

So I had a bunch of miscellaneous vegetables plus chicken lying around, meaning it was high time for some stir-fry. I poked around for a recipe and was originally going to make this one. It was basic enough that I wouldn’t screw it up. Plus, after having visited the grocery store, I had all the [...]

Grilled Chicken and Zucchini, Doused with Burninating

So I’ve been greatly enjoying this whole ‘grill’ thing. First off, all you do is turn a knob, and a fire appears! Yay! Which, uh, is pretty similar to a gas stove, I suppose. Then again, I’m pretty excited by gas stoves as well. Secondly, there is a certain magical aesthetic to eating food that [...]

How to make leftover fried rice into a giant pile of fabulous

Leftover Chinese fried rice is generally not all it’s cracked up to be. First off, it doesn’t help that fresh fried rice, when made properly, is made from day-old rice anyhow. Secondly, things can be even worse if the fried rice wasn’t full of tons of fabulous ingredients from the start. There are far too [...]

Chili, as it’s rather chilly out

There’s nothing good to heat you up like a big ole pile of spicy beans! To be perfectly honest, I have a rather narrow view of chili. First off, I find it rather baffling that there are some variants of chili that are designed to be dumped on top of hot dogs. To me, this [...]

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