Food
Recipes.
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Salad Season
Summer is upon us. It’s actually on it’s way out, but I couldn’t let the season change without sharing some samples of my staple summertime food. In the summer, I really prefer not to do anything too intensive because well, ovens are hot and with the heat rising outside, standing over the stove for too long seems absurd. Furthermore, turning on the oven and generating heat is also not conducive to the running of the AC, which is so critical in the summer. And in conclusion, I don’t really enjoy eating soups, bakes, casseroles, or any other dish that’s too hearty and HOT when it’s averaging 90 degrees outside. So,…
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Southwestern Chicken Soup
My coworker had a taco salad the other day that had my mouth watering for some Mexican fare. That night I made a B-line toward Wal-mart on the way home. I bought some Sam’s Choice Black Bean and White Corn Salsa and worked up a nice lil taco dinner for the family. But since I didn’t finish the jar of salsa, I was itching for something more to do with it. Then the freak cold snap had me in soup-making mode so I dreamed up this interpretation of Chicken Tortilla Soup. There are no tortillas so I’m calling it Southwestern. It came out pretty tasty, a lil spicy, a lil…
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Creamy Crab and Tomato Bisque
On Sunday it rained in Atlanta. Then that turned into snow. The snow came down for hours. I’d call this my first official snow. I’ve been living here for about 5 years now and have seen it ice, light snows, hail, but never this much white. I mean we actually had inches of it. I built a snow man with it, had to push it off my car, drive in it. And I actually had to make use of my Nissan’s defrost feature just to see through the windshield. But that’s not the point. The cold, the snow and an uncommon ingredient in my refrigerator all inspired me to try…
