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Filed under: Dinner, Beef, Recipes There are certain meals that just taste like mom's home cookin'. Oh wait! This was my mom's cooking. Stopping home for a quick dinner after voting, my mom presented me with this dish: beef braised with bacon and served over a bed of egg noodles. I couldn't resist myself, I had to have seconds. The aroma of the ...

Filed under: Dinner, Microwaving, Fast FoodIt wasn't until I started cooking meals from scratch on a regular basis that I discovered just how much of a fallacy this whole pre-made foods business is. I'm not talking about one of those tasty, pre-roasted chickens or fresh meals you can buy at the supermarket, but rather canned and frozen foods. They ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Vegetables, Recipes, How To, Comfort Food, Thanksgiving Thanksgiving was Thursday (yes, I realize that it's always on Thursday) and now it's Saturday. This means that you are heading into your third day of turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes and might be ready for a bit of a break. Whenever I find that I've overdone ...

I am a huge fan of taking the leftovers from one dinner and turning them into something new for the next meal. I've often roasted a chicken for dinner one night, tucked some of the meat from the bird into sandwiches the next and then made soup out of what remains on the third night. However that cycle isn't particularly creative and I rarely ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Cheese, Recipes, On the Blogs, America, Shellfish Living solo means that when I cook, either I have to waste a lot of energy to cook just enough for one person, or else I cook a huge amount, and get sick of eating the same leftovers for five days straight. This means I love -- and when I say ''love,'' I mean luuuuuurve ...

Filed under: Dinner, Food Porn, Vegetables, Cheese, Recipes, Pork, Baking, How To, Boiling, Comfort Food On nights when you don't really feel like cooking, pasta is always an easy fallback. Now that people seem to be less terrified of having a few carbs in their diets, pasta is slowly returning to its position as a pantry staple. It only takes ...