First, an admission: I don’t think I’ve ever eaten Chili’s salsa, so I can’t tell you whether this Chili’s Copycat Salsa recipe that I found via Pinterest tastes like the real thing or not. As a certified salsa junkie, I CAN tell you that I’ll be making this recipe again. I love making fresh pico [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Sensational salsa packs a subtle heat
Posted in Eats, tagged canned tomatoes salsa, Chili's copycat salsa, Chili's salsa, cooking, cumin, jalapenos, kitchen, Mexican food, pico de gallo, Pinterest, Pinterest recipes, salsa, salsa recipes, spicy salsa on January 31, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Menacing mandoline produces delectable potato dish
Posted in Eats, tagged baking, cooking, cooking for two, individual pommes Anna, Kevlar gloves, kitchen, kitchen injury, mandoline, mandoline dangers, mashed potato alternatives, mini pommes Anna, miniature pommes Anna, OXO, OXO mandoline, Pinterest, pommes Ana, pommes Anna, potato recipes, potato slicer, potatoes Anna, slicing potatoes, Yukon potatoes on January 30, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Believe the hype about blinc mascara
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Birchbox, blinc, blinc mascara, cosmetics, FeatherLash, L'Oreal, makeup, mascara, samples, smudgeproof mascara, waterproof mascara on January 25, 2012 | 4 Comments »
My Birchbox subscription has taught me a lot about the cosmetics industry. For example, a lot of women will apparently pay $18 an ounce for a “molecular mist” purported to do everything from keeping skin hydrated to protecting it from “ionizing radiation” emitted from the sun and cellphones. I thought it smelled like that one [...]
Views from my subconscious: snakes in a yard, water everywhere else
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anxiety, anxiety dreams, dreams, flooding, hurricane, Hurricane Katrina, recurring dreams, snakes, snakes in dreams, stress, subconscious, water in dreams on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Since I was a little kid, my go-to anxiety dream involved snakes. In this recurring dream, I would step outside my house to find a yard filled with snakes, and I would have to walk carefully to avoid them. No matter what house I walked out of, the yard itself was inevitably the yard from [...]
Slow cooker marinara sauce: the new household standard
Posted in Eats, tagged Budget Bytes, calzones, cooking, cooking for two, freezer sauce, homemade, marinara sauce, meat sauce, pasta, pasta sauce, Pinterest, processed foods, Real Food Movement, recipes, slow cooker, tomatoes on January 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
That was fast. Just a week after I took up the pursuit of an easy homemade alternative to store-bought pasta sauce, I think I’ve found my go-to recipe. Over at Budget Bytes, Beth posted a recipe for a slow cooker marinara sauce in November (gotta give kudos to Pinterest for helping me find it). She noted [...]
A simple New Year’s Resolution: Eat more real food
Posted in Eats, Family, Fitness, tagged AL, cooking, diet, exercise, Huntsville, maintaining weight, New Year's resolution, nutrition, peanut butter, processed foods, Real Food Movement, salad spinner, weight loss, workouts on January 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »
How weird to be in the middle of a food trend and not realize it. I’ve been trying to reduce the amount of processed food in my family’s diet for the past few years. I was unemployed for a few months when we first moved to Huntsville, so I started cooking a lot to try [...]
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