• Archive for April, 2008

    Top Chef Chicago: Week Seven Reflections

    by  • April 28, 2008 • Top Chef • 4 Comments

    Alright, we’ve been watching for seven weeks. And for what? To see fluffed egos, hear foul mouthed cooks cuss like it’ll inflect magic on the food and discover that it’s hard to like these people. But, that’s just my take. I really hope that the producers take more care in choosing chefs next season....

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    Grilled Balsamic Chicken

    by  • April 27, 2008 • Chicken • 0 Comments

    It’s grilling season! It’s grilling season! That’s exactly what I felt like shouting the first night that Shawn and I cooked dinner outside. We’ve repeated our outdoor cooking almost every night since. I love grilling outside. The scent of cooking food wafting through the air, the sounds of crackling inside the grill, the wave...

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    Uh-Oh. I Disappeared!

    by  • April 24, 2008 • Thoughts • 2 Comments

    Hey everyone. Please bear with me. I will be back with great posts starting on Sunday on organic 360 Vodka, Grilled Balsamic Chicken, decluttering and more . . . In the meantime, check out this nostalgic video. It’s totally worth the time to watch (only a few minutes). (Thanks Patti, you Late Bloomer!)

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    Top Chef Chicago: Week Six Reflections

    by  • April 17, 2008 • Top Chef • 0 Comments

    Quote of the night: “I made Ryan Scott tailgate food and I am proud of it.” Come. On. Poached pears are not tailgate food. EVER. Seriously? What was he thinking? But, as this season has demonstrated, Bravo found a group of chefs who are more about themselves than the food. I digress.  Shall we...

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    Dancing My Way to Fitness

    by  • April 16, 2008 • raves, Stuff, weightloss • 0 Comments

    Oh. My. Lord. I’ve discovered the perfect workout video for me. And I can do the whole thing without thinking about it . . . that’s a great sign. Anyway, the video arrived and I couldn’t help but think the woman on the cover looked awfully like an Asian Jane Fonda circa 1985. But,...

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    The Best Garlic Bread EVER

    by  • April 14, 2008 • Bread • 0 Comments

    It’s taken me WEEKS to get this post up. See, I made some garlic bread on the fly one night. It came out perfectly. I wrote down the recipe. The problem? I didn’t take a photo. So, I made it again. However, I got distracted and burned the heck out of it. We ate...

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    Greener Shopping

    by  • April 13, 2008 • green living • 2 Comments

    For the past year, I’ve been working on greenifying our lives. Safer cleansers, natural (non-antibacterial) soaps, and less waste. It’s been a tough undertaking — reusable dryer sheets just didn’t do it for us. And the ones we tried – Method – still had waste when all was said and done: the sheets themselves,...

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    Top Chef Chicago: Week Five Reflections

    by  • April 11, 2008 • Top Chef • 1 Comment

    Enough with the butternut squash soup! Dude, Spike, you aren’t too nice. You didn’t get screwed. Seriously. And Zoi? She disappoints me week after week . . . And, ha! Ha! Was anyone else silently gloating that Richard forgot to scale the fish? Perfection averted . . . oh, the joys! But let’s back...

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