Chicken

Revamping A TexMex Favorite: Layered Enchiladas

November 28, 2012

Maybe it’s because I’ve spent the majority of my life living in Texas, but Mexican food is a moral imperative for me. I simply cannot live without it. The deep layered flavors and spicy goodness sings to me. Of course, it could just be the cheese. Regardless of the reasoning, I can’t imagine a life [...]

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The Definition of Comfort Food? Chicken and Dumplings

November 6, 2012

If I’m in a bad mood or I’ve had a bad day there’s an easy way to make me happy. If it’s cold outside and no amount of socks and blankets will warm my soul, there’s an easy way to make me happy. Chicken and dumplings. The thing is that chicken and dumplings just feels [...]

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Chicken Piccata – Because lemon is a VERY good thing

October 18, 2012

Pretty much my whole life I assumed that the “piccata” part of chicken piccata had to do with the lemon flavor. Turns out, piccata is the method of preparation of the dish and has nothing to do with the lemony goodness we’ve all come to love from that name. Piccata simply means preparing a meat [...]

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Faker Fried Chicken = Fabulous!

August 22, 2011

About two or three weeks ago my friend, Donna, was telling me about this baked fake fried chicken that she and her family love. I adore fried chicken like a fat girl, so of course, I had to investigate this. Turns out it’s an Everyday Food recipe (although I’m sure there are others) that uses [...]

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The UnSalad-like Salad

August 4, 2011

If you’ve ever eaten a meal out with me, you know I’m not really a salad girl. I like an occasional salad and a side salad, but salad-as-entree is generally not my thing. What I do love is a good unsalad. What’s an unsalad? Well, I guess is sort of like a casserole except not [...]

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I’ve been a busy little bee…

May 12, 2009

…cooking away this week! I’ve already made tonight’s dinner even though we haven’t eaten yet. The weeone has a softball game – Go Crickets!- and it’s the season finale of The Biggest Loser, so I don’t want to have to cook after the game. I had gotten the Rachel Ray Big Orange Book a little [...]

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The Soup Weather Left…but my Soup Cravings are Still Here!

January 24, 2009

This journey of mine is an interesting one. In the past I’ve hit a “diet” pretty hard, trying to increase my water intake, cut calories, increase exercise and anything else that deemed “essential” all at once so I could be an “after” as soon as humanly possible. That’s what you’re supposed to do, right? Well, [...]

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Brrrr…it’s cold in Houston!

January 6, 2009

We’re having a bit of cold snap today and tomorrow in Houston. For those of you who deal with “real winter” you’d laugh at what we consider cold! The high today was 49 degrees!!! It was also drizzly which I think always makes it all seem so much colder. Since it’s not cold often, I [...]

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