I love, love, LOVE being inspired to try new dishes at home after experiencing them out in the wild at a restaurant. We recently went to one of my favorites – Parachute in Chicago – and ordered the pork tonkatsu (traditionally a Japanese dish), which just blew me […]
Well happy Friday and happy birthday to ME! Ha! There is really no more fitting post for my b-day then a leveled-up pecan pie. It’s my favorite dessert and once I ate en entire pie by myself over just three days. Proud Annie moment. When my pal Donna […]
Well, I’d be silly not to start off this post with my husband’s quote on this recipe that goes a little something like this – “this is the best mac & cheese EVER.” Not super poetic, but I think it gets the message across that this is pretty […]
I rarely post side dishes because I’m usually bee-lining it to the big TA-DA of the meal (i.e. the meatloaf, the steak, the taco, etc). But when I made this zippy carrot salad to accompany the chicken shawarma pitas we grilled up recently – I was INTO IT. […]
If I had to pick only one recipe as THE recipe of the summer, this IS it. My friend Jihad introduced me to this recipe (his own) on a recent camping trip and I was blown away by the flavor. The bright marinade with fresh lemon and bold […]
Wowza, I guess I hadn’t updated the “About Me” page on the blog for…um…5 years or so! While a lot is the same, a lot has changed, so I thought it was time to dust off the cobwebs of this page and update! Check it out below if […]
I think we are all aware dessert is not my specialty – but I am happy to report that this “wang-dang” – what my friend Laura refers to as any dish you kind of make up as you go along – turned out pretty fab! We all went […]
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