About six months ago, I found out my cholesterol was slightly high. That was the wake-up call that I needed to lose the last fifteen pounds of pregnancy weight. Coming off Thanksgiving weekend (okay, week if I’m being honest), I’m back to eating big salads and righting myself again. But the week sure was fun [...]
Entries Tagged as 'appetizers'
Wayne’s Pizza
November 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Chicago, Italian, appetizers, cheese, food, fun, junkfood, mozzarella, mushrooms, pizza, restaurants, sauces, sides, spinach
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Baba Ghanoush
October 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Middle Eastern, appetizers, beans, dips, eggplant, food, leftovers, quick, sides, tofu, value, vegetables, vegetarian
Baba ghanoush is an Arabic dip made from eggplant that I’m thinking most of us have had by now. Don’t worry if you can’t pronounce it. Just make it, and eat it.
I’ve purchased baba ghanoush in a can that was, believe it or not, fairly decent. But it is so inexpensive to make, like, a [...]
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Italian Quickie
November 21st, 2008 · 8 Comments · Italian, appetizers, basil, cheese, food, mozzarella, pasta, pork, pregnancy, prosciutto, quick, salads, sauces, vegetarian
…And no, I’m not talking about the night that resulted in our baby girl. Oh man, I am KILLING with these jokes lately. Hello? Is this thing on?
The last week of my pregnancy, I wanted three things: meat, cheese, and not to do any work. But I wanted to do something that might convince my [...]
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Salad Week: Ants on a Log, and Cambezola!
July 28th, 2008 · No Comments · David, appetizers, cheese, food, gorgonzola, quick, salads, vegetables, vegetarian
Is it a salad? Well, I think so. It ain’t BBQ…
(Heeeyyyy… Check out those aging carrot sticks! Appetizing, no?) I don’t remember where I first saw this snack called “Ants on a Log,” but I think it’s cute. I like to spread it not with whole peanut butter, but instead to make a lower-fat spread [...]
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Hooters Hot Wings
May 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Champaign, David, appetizers, beans, beef, beer, burgers, chicken, food, junkfood, pregnancy, restaurants, soul food
Chris and I both like buffalo wings. My favorites are actually the ones my brother used to fry up in the kitchen at Ruby Tuesday’s, when he and I both worked there. That was twelve years ago now (wow.) He would always make his crazy off-the-menu hot, not so hot for me.
Now Ruby’s is under [...]
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Smoked Cheese and Broccoli Pizza
December 11th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Italian, appetizers, breads, cheese, food, mozzarella, pizza, quick, vegetables, vegetarian
Things have been pretty stressful around here lately… We have been house-hunting, and trying to figure out how to balance what we want in a house (Chris wants a basement, and I want either a nice kitchen, or a house cheap enough to renovate the kitchen) with the area that we want to live in [...]
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Brooke's Artichoke Dip
October 30th, 2007 · 11 Comments · Italian, appetizers, breads, cheese, dips, florentine, food, leftovers, mozzarella, mushrooms, parties, pizza, quick, sandwiches, sides, spinach, turkey, vegetables, vegetarian
Now that I’ve posted about baking something from scratch (even if I didn’t do the cooking), I have to post about something simple to make, or I may end up with a rash. And, eyw, no one wants that.
When I was a freshman in college (age 19, I think), my friend Brooke would also be [...]
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Yuki's Sushi, and the Bachelor Fare Back Home
October 5th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Latino, Portland, appetizers, asian, breads, burgers, drinks, fish, food, leftovers, pizza, quick, restaurants, rice, sauces, seafood, soups, sushi, tofu, tuna, turkey
Katie, Kaci, Jen and I had an evening in Portland that I haven’t documented, at a restaurant called Ten01 downtown… But unfortunately, none of my pictures turned out (left the good camera at home, again.) Still, not much of a loss there… I didn’t think the food was that noteworthy. My foie gras and my [...]
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Bernie's Southern Bistro
September 26th, 2007 · 3 Comments · BBQ, Portland, appetizers, bacon, beef, berries, breads, cheese, chicken, desserts, drinks, food, ham, leftovers, potatoes, restaurants, sauces, sides, soul food, vegetables
On a lazy afternoon, Katie and I went for chow just down the street from her place. I’d seen Bernie’s Southern Bistro on one of my walks about the neighborhood, and since she is pretty new to that area herself, she had never been there either, and it was a perfect spot for us to [...]
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Widmer Brothers Brewing
September 23rd, 2007 · 3 Comments · German, Italian, Portland, appetizers, beer, breads, cheese, chicken, dips, drinks, food, leftovers, pasta, pork, potatoes, restaurants, sauces, seafood, shrimp, sides, vegetables
On my Friday night in Portland Jen and Katie and I went out in search of some later-evening eats. We had spent a bit longer at Jen’s house than we had intended, due to some unexpected “shopping” we did there. Katie spied a box full of clothing that Jen had, and immediately was all over [...]
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