Thai it, it’s delicious

 
 HAPPY NEW YEAR TO  EVERYONE!
 
My in life, real friend Angela has this fantastic recipe for Thai Chicken (or as she calls it, Thai Thighs) that mixes up a whole mess of flavorful items that is poured over chicken and baked. Simple, easy….and fabulous. Like Angela. See?? Here she is…..
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She’s also a master at cooking gluten [...]

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Christmas: A+; Scalloped Potatoes: F-

I admittedly am much harder on myself than others when something in my kitchen doesn’t work like I want it too; a failure to me is something that doesn’t even come close to being what I expected, regardless if others consume it without question, or even better, go back for seconds.
That would be the case [...]

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Peace on the Earth, good will to men….

from heaven’s all gracious King. The world in solemn stillness lay, to hear the angels sing.
Have a very Merry Christmas, from our house and kitchen, to yours.

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WCB- The Christmas Edition

Please, please, pleeeeeeeaaaaaasssse let me just screeeeeeech to a halt here, take a deeeep breath and allow for all the frenzy around us to STOP for just ONE DAY.
I love Christmas, but I don’t love the manic state of Christmas. It just shouldn’t be like this. It’s a celebration of the birth of Christ, not [...]

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Skeletons in my pantry

Katie, of Thyme For Cooking has offered up a great blogging event for our food skeletons to be made public. Now isn’t this going to be fun? We get to offer up all our dark secrets that we love to eat but hate to tell anyone. It’s hard to own up to having such guilty [...]

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Griffin made us a snack

Not much to it; hard boiled egg yolks mixed with some mayo and deli mustard, a sprinkle of paprika and celery salt, then scooped back into the whites.
But he made them, from start to finish. My only role was to sprinkle in the seasonings as he said ‘I probably can’t manage to get those right’. [...]

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Tasty and spicy Green Pork Chili

It’s Winter, it’s cold and I live in Minnesota. I tend to think it’s kind of my birthright to make hearty, delicious stews and soups for a decent chunk of the year. I can make regular red chili with my eyes closed….’yawn’….pot roast can be sorta mundane and Mike isn’t much for red meat which [...]

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Ode to Frost and Sun

I woke up to a shiny winter wonderland this morning- frost was everywhere, the crystal-y kind known as Hoar Frost. With the sun reflecting off the crystals it sure made for a lovely sight. Who says winter can’t be beautiful??

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I’ll stop saying ‘Food’ if you stop saying ‘Nothing’

I love my teenage son, I truly do. But he’s a teenager, after all, and he does have his moments. When he is being a particularly trying pain in the neck, I like to think about when he was three. He was ADORABLE!! Superbly cooperative, loving, sweet and contagiously funny. He loved to sit [...]

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It’s cookie time in the city

Aaaaaaand I’m back! Miss me?
I did treat you to a few posts, shelved prior to ‘the week without tastebuds’ in my house so I wasn’t superbly absent. Interestingly enough, while I recuperated, my blog was inundated with hits, mostly searching for pictures of funny cats. I suppose I’m not so remiss in that area, but [...]

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