At our house, we try to buy birthday gifts without going hog wild (read: we don’t to spend our life savings on birthday presents, not even for ourselves). But there are still good things to be had for your birthday. During birthday week, you get to pick the menu for dinner every night, you get…
Tag: dinner
Chicken Marsala for a Drizzly Sunday Night
Drumroll, please. It’s time for Tyler Florence’s Chicken Marasala. But before you make your own Chicken Marsala, I have a confession to make about this recipe. It sounded good when I started making it, but somewhere between pounding the chicken flat (which Peanut hated) and causing our fire alarms to go off a half-dozen times…
Summer Mystery Squash
Do you remember our mystery squash? It looked kind of like an overgrown something or other for a while (zucchini?), then it rounded out to green pumpkin status, and it was clearly not the spaghetti squash that the seed packet said it would be. When we roasted it, the innards were somewhat spaghetti-like though. Hmm. …
Emeril’s Stuffed Bell Peppers (with Hannah’s Tomatillas)
I’ve made stuffed bell peppers before, and I liked them. It’s something a little bit out of the ordinary, and who doesn’t like dinner that looks like a present? But these stuffed bell peppers were the best I’ve ever made. I mean it. They were delicious, and they got an A+ from the husband….
Epic Ravioli
Scott was a pro at picking the best local food throughout our honeymoon. I picked whatever my carb-loving heart desired, but he consistently ordered the local specialty everywhere we went. Good job, husband! Well, we decided to recreate one of those awesome local specialties–the Bologna pumpkin ravioli, to be exact. And I believe our collective…
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