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Father’s Day: Choose Your Own Adventure

Father’s Day: Choose Your Own Adventure

Key Lime Bars: It’s pie, but you can eat it with your fingers!  What’s not to like?  I thought I’d make something tasty to bring to Brian’s dad’s Father’s Day barbeque; I’m not a lover of Father’s Day, and pie helps.  Plus, key lime is another one of those things that are ridiculously easy to ...

Jun, 21
Thursday Night Smackdown: “They look like little turds.”

Thursday Night Smackdown: “They look like little turds.”

He has a way with words.  It’s one of the many reasons we’ve made it to four days after our seventh anniversary.  He also has a way with making ground meat into puppets while he’s working with it, which is only slightly less endearing than his impressive lexicon.

Jun, 18
Liveblogging Top Chef Masters: Episode 2

Liveblogging Top Chef Masters: Episode 2

Master chefs Wylie Dufresne (wd-50), Suzanne Tracht (Jar), Graham Elliot Bowles (Graham Elliot Restaurant*) and Elizabeth Falkner (Orson & Citizen Cake) take on the Season 1 vending machine Quickfire challenge, followed by an elimination which, as described by Bravo, sounds super cheesy, so I won’t tell you what it is so as not to spoil ...

Jun, 17
Cheap Ass Monday: Getting Somewhat More Creative with the Eggs, in That They’re Not Just Sitting On Top

Cheap Ass Monday: Getting Somewhat More Creative with the Eggs, in That They’re Not Just Sitting On Top

It’s Monday and that means yes, here I am with dinner based around an ovum protein source.* *Another synonym for “egg,” from thesaurus.com: cackleberry.  I am so not shitting you.

Jun, 15
Liveblogging Top Chef Masters: Episode 1

Liveblogging Top Chef Masters: Episode 1

The long national nightmare of not having any high-quality reality cooking television comes to an end tonight! Tonight, Hubert Keller (Fleur de Lys), Christopher Lee (Aureole), Michael Schlow (Radius Restaurant), and Tim Love (The Lonesome Dove Western Bistro) go head to head.  Also: If Jesus loves me he will make sure that Wylie Dufresne, whenever ...

Jun, 10
Thursday Night Smackdown: The second-best way to blog

Thursday Night Smackdown: The second-best way to blog

As previously established, the best way to food blog is to write about food and how you might have prepared it without actually producing any food.  The second best way, as it turns out, is to have your husband do the actual cooking while you sit on the couch with your new MacBook Pro – ...

Jun, 04
This’ll put the kids to bed early so you can watch the season finale of LOST in peace

This’ll put the kids to bed early so you can watch the season finale of LOST in peace

I’m pretty sure the season finale of LOST already happened, so just use it as a stand-in for whatever other thing you want your kids asleep for: pulling out the bong, playing Grand Theft Auto, watching an R-rated moving picture, talking about them behind their backs, or obsessively watching Discovery Channel specials about the truth ...

May, 17

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