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hot food for cold nights

Winter Squash Soup

October 7, 2011
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Sometimes, I think I’m almost predictable to a fault. I know what I like. I know my routine and I like to stick to it. Call me boring, but it’s what works for me. So it should surprise no one that the first cold weekend I was ready to make soup. Soup with squashes. A [...]

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Chicken in a Pot

February 28, 2011
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The time has come to share one of my great secrets. I cook whole chickens in my crock pot. I’ve been doing this for quite sometime. And for some reason, it makes me feel guilty. Because it’s so easy, and it doesn’t seem like a fine culinary technique. But it’s delicious. So we keep doing [...]

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Spicy Sweet Potato Soup

January 31, 2011
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Around here, the second key element of successful snow food is something hot and filling. I’m a big soup lover all the time, and I knew I wanted some last Wednesday while I was waiting for the snow to come down. But sadly, I was fairly limited in the soup fixins I had in the [...]

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Green Chili Cornbread

January 24, 2011
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So there was something I left out of Friday’s post about the Chicken Chili. There was a another…delicious item… Green Chili Cornbread! I’ll be honest, I didn’t think I would be a fan, since I’m normally a sweet cornbread girl. But in the interest of family fairness, I made it for Noel, since he doesn’t [...]

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Crockpot White Bean Chicken Chili

January 21, 2011
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This is the time of the year when the weather gets particularly dicey around here. We’ll have blistering cold, followed by a slight warm up, followed by more blistering cold. And if we’re unlucky, we have an La Nina year like this one, where all of that cold is wasted on a total LACK of [...]

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Curried Pumpkin Apple Soup

October 22, 2010
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After I came down from my 5K high last week, I needed a break. So I won’t lie, I took a nap. Yeah, I know you’re not supposed to need a nap after a 5K, but I’m a girl that likes to sleep! And then I woke up. And I was STARVING. I knew we [...]

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Feisty Spicy Green Beans and Tofu

March 22, 2010
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Sometimes, my mind is so slippery things are just completely gone before it seems I even really register they’re there. That thing that I’ve been reminding myself I have to get at the grocery store every day for a week? I get there and poof, it’s gone! That really important thing I need to tell [...]

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White Chicken Lasagna

March 19, 2010
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My family rocks. Really. We can not see each other for months, and then when we get together it’s hours and hours of non-stop chatting and fun. And normally, food. This past weekend, Noel and I were lucky enough to go to Slower Lower for some quality family time. Nevermind that the picture above shows [...]

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