Shredded Pollo Asado Chicken: aka Costco Chicken

I love Costco (maybe not as much as my mom). My mom loved Costco so much that when they changed from accepting Discover to American Express, she also changed from Discover to American Express. She said she wanted to make sure she was able to pay for all of her Costco purchases. Many of our Costco...

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Chicken Recuerdos de Tucson

This recipe is part of Barbara Kingsolver’s book “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.” I remember reading Barbara Kingsolver’s books in AP English. She was Mrs. Philips’ favorite author. This book chronicles the year that Kingsolver and her family decided to move away from Tucson, to...

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Lindsay's Mango Habanero Chicken Burritos with Sweet Potatoes and Black Beans

We like to make large quantities of burritos and freeze them for quick meals. The frozen burritos have become quite a hit with many of the new mommies I know. The next time you’re trying to figure out what you can make for new parents, you should think about making burritos for their freezer. The...

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Potato Salad for the BF

The bf requested potato salad as a side dish for his turkey burgers. The night before he said, “I like onions and celery. I don’t like yellow okay? Make it white.” I looked at him and said, “what the hell are you talking about?” You see he randomly spurted all that out of nowhere. He believes...

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Sour Bamboo soup with Chicken

I believe this is a northern Thai or Laotian dish. I found a recipe on Joy’s Thai Food website but I didn’t follow her recipe. I don’t recall having this soup with lemongrass so I put something together using my memory.This soup uses a different variety of basil called bai mang luk. I believe there...

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Great Deal on Le Creuset 5.5 Quart French Oven $119.99

Maybe it is a glitch in their system but if you click the link below you will find the 5.5 quart Le Creuset round dutch oven in red for $119.99 from Williams-Sonoma. At first I thought that perhaps Le Creuset was discontinuing this shade of red so I went to Williams-Sonoma to look. The pot is still...

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Gazpacho

I cannot take credit for this recipe. One of my dear friends makes this gazpacho every summer. I love it but I never make it because this makes a HUGE batch and I am the only one that will eat gazpacho. The bf doesn’t like gazpacho. Whenever I crave it I will stop by Whole Foods and buy a little...

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Moon Harbor (Chicken with Basil Stir-Fry)

Wow it has been a rough few weeks. After returning from vacation, I spent the next week packing and then the next two weeks moving. We've been in the place for over two weeks but we are not entirely unpacked. It is a slow and ongoing process. I wanted to blog but I wasn't cooking much of anything....

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