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168 Hours: Small Meals & Finding Time

As a person who collects hobbies the way old ladies collect cats, sometimes I get a little frustrated with the laws of physics regarding time-travel and being in two places…

December 8, 2011 | 10 Comments | Read the Full Article

Something To Do With Strawberries (Without a Kitchen)

The obvious thing to do with strawberries fresh out of the garden is eat them by the handful. Duh. I planted six small strawberry plants a couple of years ago…

Eat Happy: Easy Summer Vegetables on the Grill

You may notice a theme here regarding cooking. As in, if it’s not cold cereal or salad… we do it on a grill. The good news for how this is…

Eat Happy: Grilled Peaches & Ice Cream

This is the easiest and most delicious thing I have ever eaten off the grill. I don’t post a lot of recipes here these days because, hi, no kitchen. The…

Eat Happy: Baked Feta with Pita Snackers

I’ve “stole” this recipe from our favorite hole-in-the-wall, belly-dancer-employing greek restaurant in town. It’s extra simple so there really wasn’t a whole lot of difficulty to figuring it out, but despite…

Eat Happy: Roasted Pears with Blackberry Sauce

The photo –albeit a bit grainy– really does say it all. What I Used: 1 Pear Handful of blackberries Butter Sugar Vanilla A smidge of white wine Vanilla Icecream What…

March 29, 2009 | 4 Comments | Read the Full Article

Eat Happy: Pesto Marinated Steak with Roasted Garlic

I may have told you before that I just started eating steak about 2 years ago, which corresponds exactly with the first summer MysteryMan and I were dating. Because that…

March 27, 2009 | 0 Comments | Read the Full Article

Eat Happy: Scrumptious Stuffed Red Peppers

MysteryMan is the entire reason I eat peppers the way I do (which is in everything) so this recipe is thanks to him. What I used: 4 Large Red Peppers…

November 20, 2008 | 3 Comments | Read the Full Article

Eat Happy: “This is damn good” Chicken Pot Pie

Life has been such lately that I literally have to schedule time on my calendar to see MysteryMan, and since I have been failing on all other fronts as a…

September 24, 2008 | 6 Comments | Read the Full Article

Eat Happy: Homemade Cherry Pie

I actually didn’t even know that I was a fan of cherry pie until last year when MysteryMan showed up at my house with a gallon bag of hand picked…

August 3, 2008 | 6 Comments | Read the Full Article

Eat Happy: Fresh Raspberry Ice Cream Topping

aka “The best thing I’ve ever had on vanilla ice cream” What I Used: 1 cup fresh raspberries 1/2 cup water 1/2 cup white wine 1 cup sugar What I…

Eat Happy! Garden Fresh Potato Salad

The one good thing about being booted mercilessly out of Spring and into the hot, muggy oppressiveness of Summer? Cookout days are back again! (Not that we weren’t grilling out…

Eat Happy: Grilled Corn & French Onions

Hey, it’s two recipes for the price of one! This is in honor of the fact that it’s been above fifty degrees here for a whole week (almost). Today it…

April 16, 2008 | 3 Comments | Read the Full Article
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