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Category Archives: Comfort Food — Savory
Fiesta Food For Thought
I know it’s going to be a strange day when I find I’m having trouble composing a simple email. As a writer, when my fingers merely loiter over the keyboard, and my mind stumbles over sentence structure in a quick … Continue reading
Posted in Chicken / Poultry, Comfort Food -- Savory, Entrees
Tagged Asian food, black beans, casserole, cheesy, Cinco de Mayo, Costco, Crisco, fajitas, Fiesta, guacamole, mai-tais, margaritas, Mexican food, reinvention, rotisserie chicken, tortillas, writer's block
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You Can’t Always Get What You Want
After a few foggy moments staring at my computer screen this morning, I decided to take a motivational walk through the neighborhood. Zipping around the elementary school, I don’t know where it came from but I started to hum the … Continue reading
Kiss Me, I’m Irish
Another St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone. And I didn’t wake with a corned beef and green beer hangover, nor did I find any pots of gold. In fact, I didn’t even see a rainbow. Instead, everywhere I look … Continue reading
Posted in Comfort Food -- Savory, Desserts, Sandwiches & Paninis
Tagged beer, Betty Crocker, buttercream frosting, cheesy bread, clover, cookies, corned beef & cabbage, dandelion, frosting, good luck, green, icing, Irish, lawn, leprechauns, M&Ms, pot of gold, rainbows, St. Patrick's Day
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A Tasty Diversion
In the delightful Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks film, You’ve Got Mail, there is a point at which Meg’s character realizes she’s in a very tough fight — it’s Christmas time and she is desperately trying to save her business, her livelihood. … Continue reading
Posted in Chicken / Poultry, Comfort Food -- Savory, Entrees
Tagged chicken, Christmas, Donald Trump, Einstein, goat cheese, herbs, holidays, jobs, Lemons, Meg Ryan, positive thinking, Starbucks, Steve Jobs, Tom Hanks, zest
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Feels Like Summer, Smells Like Fall
A few rainy days in the first week of October had folks putting away patio furniture and calling the chimney sweep. Stepping outside the house into one of our first chilly, cloudy days of Fall, I caught the aroma of … Continue reading
Posted in Comfort Food -- Savory, Uncategorized, Vegetables
Tagged Butternut, campus, chicken, college, Fall, road trip, roasting, squash, summer, Thanksgiving, Tri-tip, vegetables, weather
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