Tortilla Soup Recipe

Chicken Tortilla Soup

January 10, 2012

I have no idea what to write about this recipe except that it’s the best in the world and you must believe me. Please, do not turn your ear away from the apparent arrogance in my self-serving claim of it being the best chicken tortilla soup recipe in the world and just listen to this [...]

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Fried Calamari

Fried Calamari

January 6, 2012

If you’ve been keeping up with my Twitter account and FaceBook and Google Plus and all that junk where I post my most intimates, then you know Chris and I just got back from a trip to the Texas Riviera — a.k.a. Port Aransas. We ate a boatload (not literally) of fried seafood while we [...]

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Margarita Recipe

Habanero Margarita!

January 4, 2012

Yes, it’s January and it’s freeezzzing and we’re cold and shivering in oversized shoes and raggedy coats, trying to warm up with fistfuls of matches and perhaps a cold margarita doesn’t quite fit into this scenario. Perhaps. Then again, perhaps a margarita is exactly what you need in order to trick your brain into thinking [...]

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Pepperoni Pizza

Homemade Pizza … At Home!

December 28, 2011

I never made pizza at home before shooting this episode. I also had never had such delicious, perfect pizza anywhere before shooting this episode. Thanks to Brandon of Via 313 pizza, I now can make my own wicked-good pizza at home ANY TIME I WANT TO (provided I have a premonition to make the dough the [...]

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Ginger Snap Cookies Recipe

Gingersnap Cookies

December 20, 2011

Somebody please shoot me before I eat all these cookies. I really can’t stop and it’s getting to be a problem. If you enjoy the problem of irresistible cookies, then these gingersnaps are for you. They are snappy! They are gingery! They are really really good with milk and this coming from someone who doesn’t [...]

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Roast Chicken

How to Roast a Chicken

December 19, 2011

Or better yet, WHY to roast a chicken Oh, but there’s a litany of reasons, my dear — all based upon the presumption that you, my sweet, are not opposed to eating chicken — nay, that you even love eating chicken. 1. Roasting a chicken is the easiest way to cook a whole chicken. Very [...]

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Mexican Hot Chocolate

Mexican Hot Chocolate

December 16, 2011

Dudes, listen up, okay? Stop what you are doing. Seriously. You guys? Pay attention, please. I have to tell you about this very important thing called Mexican Hot Chocolate. This is the best hot chocolate you will ever have in your life and I am not even lying right now.

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