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My go-to shrimp accompaniment is pasta. But I’m trying to be healthy on weeknights (ugh, kill me) and I’d already had pasta the night before so I felt I’d hit my quota and needed to slow my roll. Instead, I made a salad, but I jacked it up with lots of Southwestern flava so I…
Read MoreWeekends are for weddings! If you’re like me, with 9 weddings each year, the weekends are, quite literally, for weddings (attending them, that is). Also if you’re like me, the weekend is a time to think about planning your own wedding. Lots of people carve out a certain time each week for to wedding planning…
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The high and low from the week of 5/2
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Are you into these one-pot meals that are popping up all over Pinterest? I am. One pot to cook, more importantly, means one pot to clean. It’s called motivation, people. I decided my one pot meal should be orzo based because it’s cuter than regular pasta. Then I just picked some chicken sausage and random…
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3 things making me happy this week
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Part of the fun of enjoying a meal is dressing for it. The right outfit sets the mood. I think the food just tastes better when I’m dressed appropriately for the occation. My ensemble for a night out with the girls is very different from the one I would wear to a Sunday boozy brunch.…
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This whole lifting of the ban on kitniyot is a GAME CHANGER. Basically, for the last 800 years a whole bunch of foods were considered no-nos during Passover (corn, rice, beans), but now they are a-ok. True, I had pretty much relaxed my observance of that rule in recent years because I didn’t agree with it,…
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BJ Novak is goofy. Each of the short stories in this book elicits a chuckle. “How does he come up with this stuff?!” is something I bemused after almost every story. Novak chooses a different, random situation for each story. There’s the one about a woman on a date with a warlord, the roast of Nelsen…
Read MoreThe high and low from the week of 4/25
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After a tough workout I usually want a supper that’s literally thrown together. My favorite way to do this is by making what my Mom and I have long called the Kitchen Sink Salad. The ingredients change every time, based on what’s lying around. This week’s version included some new ingredients so I felt it…
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Peaches to Apples 