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Farro Salad with Grilled Turkey, Lemon, Herbs & Feta
Updated:View Post: Farro Salad with Grilled Turkey, Lemon, Herbs & FetaThis recipe for farro salad with smoky grilled turkey, lemon, fresh mint and parsley, and creamy feta is a light yet satisfying, super tasty meal. A Spontaneously Invented Recipe Oftentimes, our recipes are elaborately planned out in advance. Strategies discussed,…
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Easy Curry Beef Rice Bowls
Updated:View Post: Easy Curry Beef Rice BowlsWhen Sarah and I were in school, weekends sometimes entailed trips to Chinatown (Manhattan, natch) to visit relatives. When we rolled through Chinatown’s main thoroughfares, we always made a trip to Great NY Noodletown for a couple of orders of…
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Grilled Skirt Steak with Chimichurri
Updated:View Post: Grilled Skirt Steak with ChimichurriThere are essentially two ways that we like to enjoy our steak these days. The first is with soy sauce and butter, as in our Grilled Ribeye with Soy Butter Glaze. The second is inspired by Argentinian gauchos–a simple, well-salted…
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Funfetti Ice Cream Sandwiches
Updated:View Post: Funfetti Ice Cream SandwichesWhen you run a food blog with your family, things can quickly get a little…snippy. Irritation? Shouting? Knock-down drag-out fights? All of the above are regular occurrences in our kitchen–part of the “creative process” you might say. When you’re slaving over…
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Coconut Firecracker Shrimp
Updated:View Post: Coconut Firecracker ShrimpI was first made aware of the existence of firecracker shrimp rather late in life. Namely, uh…a month ago. When they were part of the Katie Chin cooking demo I participated in at Macy’s. Guess I’ve been living under a…
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California Dreaming: Driving the Pacific Coast Highway
Updated:View Post: California Dreaming: Driving the Pacific Coast HighwayFor more context on this post, start at the beginning of the series, “Joshua Trees & Desert Adventures.” I have to tell you, guys, that it’s been about three weeks since my sister and I came back home from our…
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The Vietnamese Style Banh Mi Burger
Updated:View Post: The Vietnamese Style Banh Mi BurgerThe beauty of the banh mi burger is the deliciously fresh and verdant flavors that are all too often lacking from bacon- and cheese-laden and mayo- and ketchup-slathered burgers (Hey…focus…Focus! Okay, back to veggies.) During the summertime, when you’re already…
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Sichuan Boiled Beef (水煮牛肉 – Shuizhu Niurou)
Updated:View Post: Sichuan Boiled Beef (水煮牛肉 – Shuizhu Niurou)Excited really isn’t a strong enough word to describe how thrilled I am to share this Sichuan Boiled Beef recipe with all of you! “Ecstatic” and “triumphant” might do a better job. It’s a great dish to impress your guests (and…
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10-Minute Thai Basil Chicken (Easy Gai Pad Krapow)
Updated:View Post: 10-Minute Thai Basil Chicken (Easy Gai Pad Krapow)There are a select few really good meals in this world that take just 10 minutes to prepare from start to finish. This Thai Basil Chicken (Gai Pad Krapow) is one of them. And it isn’t one of those rush…
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Somewhere In the Woods: Sequoia National Park
Updated:View Post: Somewhere In the Woods: Sequoia National ParkHey guys! Sarah here, taking over where Kaitlin left off in our California road trip series. If you missed the first two posts, check out the first installment for Joshua trees and desert adventures, and the second post for an epic…
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Pho Ramen (Over a Campfire…Or Your Stove!)
Updated:View Post: Pho Ramen (Over a Campfire…Or Your Stove!)When it comes to camping and cooking, we have a long and storied legacy. Braised lamb shoulder, rice and beans, rotisserie chicken, fried fillets of large mouth bass, smoked turkey legs, apple cobbler… These are ALL things that we have…
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Joshua Tree & Desert Adventures
Updated:View Post: Joshua Tree & Desert AdventuresIt all began…with The History of the Eagles. I’ll pause to let all who are so inclined acknowledge that we’re lame and uncool, but yes, a few months back Sarah and I sat down on a night like any other…
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Dragon Boat Duan Wu Festival & Rice Dumplings Galore!
Updated:View Post: Dragon Boat Duan Wu Festival & Rice Dumplings Galore!The Dragon Boat Festival, better known in Chinese as the Duan Wu Festival or Duānwǔ Jié (端午节), is a three-day holiday in China, and always falls on the 5 day of the 5th month of the lunar calendar. I fondly…
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A Beef & Cheese Empanada Recipe: Baked or Fried
Updated:View Post: A Beef & Cheese Empanada Recipe: Baked or FriedWhen Sarah and I were kids, my dad would occasionally whip out one of the rarer of gems in his arsenal of recipes for delicious fried foods: the empanada. Okay, so we weren’t Top Chef-ing it up or anything—we used…
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Feijoada: Brazil’s National Dish
Updated:View Post: Feijoada: Brazil’s National DishIs there anything more glorious in this world than a plate of rice and beans? It was always my go-to meal in college during senior year, when I was way lazier and tended to just pop open a can of black…
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Avocado Smoothies with Boba
Updated:View Post: Avocado Smoothies with BobaLike most other healthy and flavor-loving humans of the world, we have jumped solidly on the bandwagon of enjoying fresh juices and green smoothies. I’ve wholeheartedly embraced the green smoothie. I’ll get the chock-full of kale, dark green, thick, grainy…
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Sweet Red Bean Soup
Updated:View Post: Sweet Red Bean SoupYou’re at a Chinese banquet, and you’ve made it. You’ve thoroughly enjoyed the cold platter of meats & jellyfish, the delicate stir-fried squid with mixed vegetables, the heavenly five-spice fried chicken, the walnut-mayonnaise fried shrimp and broccoli, the Cantonese-style lobster…
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Peking Ribs (京都排骨)
Updated:View Post: Peking Ribs (京都排骨)You may be wondering, why did I do a recipe for Peking Style Pork Ribs and not Peking Style Pork Chops? I have my reasons. Before I let you in on those reasons, I first want to clarify a myth. Despite…
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