and modifying things I've found on the internet. Like this recipe from Michael Voltaggio ( 100 things - recipe #35 Indian Spiced Short Ribs )

I cooked Easter dinner. Gnocchi soup (a passing imitation of Olive Garden's), rotkraut (i.e. red cabbage & apples), roasted golden beets with balsemic-mustard vinegarette & goat cheese, carmelized ham steak with charred pineapple relish & candied peppers and for dessert raspberry-balsemic marinated strawberries with black pepper. There's even ( Read more... )

But I keep forgetting to do my 100 things for recipes so let me whip up a tasty meal for Valentine's Day (even though I loathe it).

First while these are supposed to be sort of diabetic friendly most of these aren't (points to the holiday). In fact this first one is the farthest thing from healthy are you can imagine. No this is where you decide ( Read more... )

Except for the turkey. So far we have overnight mashed potatoes, wild rice and cherry pilaf, pecan topped mashed sweet potatoes, stuffing and more stuffing, deviled eggs, fresh cranberries, 8 pies, and the beginnings of the gravy ( Read more... )

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Today was my department chair's 50th birthday and we're good friends so she invited me to her birthday dinner. I was also invited by my winery friends to go out drinking. AND the steampunk Airship was having their first anniversary ( Read more... )

Remember that award thing I was whining about last night? Well
Kept Tears got an honorable mention YAY. The reviewer was very sweet. Click on that link to read more. Oh and I wasn't sure if I could use the banner (I thought maybe but eh, I'll put it here)


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I'm trying to finish edits so no writerly ways today and all I did today was grade all the things. Instead have a recipe I got off the internet yesterday and made today. It was pretty yummy and a lot less sodium than the canned version.


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I have no idea. I don't know what they did at work but instead of taking weeks just to get my supply request thru the business office, I got the actual supplies (well from one company) in less than a week. I like this. I like this very much.


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I made this diabetic friendly recipe this week and loved it. I'll admit it so many recipes using those healthy greens usually taste, well bitter and not pleasantly so. This was really good and really easy. About the only skills needed are chopping and don't burn it.

( Swiss Chard and Chick peas )