Posts under ‘Dinner’

Take it from someone who uses recipes like a cane as she limps her way through the kitchen: you don’t need a recipe to make chili. It’s just a mishmosh of ingredients thrown into a pot and cooked down until the feeling’s right.
It’s meant to be flexible and unfussy. Sometimes I brown some beef, sometimes [...]

I’ve had this easy Crock-pot chicken in my mind for a few days now. Santa brought me Hot Plum Chipotle marinade in my stocking (in a bottle, not, like, a stocking full of marinade…) and I’ve been dying to use it to spice up some chicken.

Upon pulling the two chicken breasts out of my fridge [...]

I knew early on what sort of Tuesday this would be. I started off the morning by sloshing tea onto my right leg as I drove to work. And this evening while The Boyfriend and I were enjoying TV and a glass of red wine on the couch, I managed to spill on my sweatpants [...]

Last night my mother cooked me an amazing birthday dinner in her backyard.

There were lots of fun decorations. And sombreros.
Jack zoomed around the backyard and investigated every bug and old baseball.
The Boyfriend played soccer with my little cousin.
My mother dropped the plate of hamburgers and hot dogs as they were about to go on the [...]

Tonight I went to a networking event put on by GenNEXT, a local young professionals group. Now that I am a young professional myself, I have to introduce words like “network” and “shmooze” into my vocabulary.
Anyway, renowned chef Dale Miller, owner of an Albany restaurant by the same name, did a cooking demonstration for us [...]