Category Archives: Dining In

Tips for a Successful Valentine’s Day, a.k.a. How to Embrace This Holiday and Make It Your Own

Valentine’s Day is the popular kid everyone loves to hate, but I’ve always loved this holiday. It started in high school, when my friend and I decided that Valentine’s Day was a great excuse to make an amazing meal, sneak … Continue reading

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Stuff We Love: Homemade Vagina Ornaments

The Holidays are an unhealthy obsession for me. I think it has to do with my love for twinkle lights and jingle bells. In years past, I’d only listen to holiday music and watch holiday movies from the day after … Continue reading

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Temptation Tuesday: I Want to Bake Cookies and Cry, aka PMS Strikes Again

Chocolate chips, recently metled, so warm they explode gooey goodness into your mouth with each bite.   I’ve been sick in bed with the stomach flu, unable to keep anything down, and yet warm, gooey chocolate chips sound so good … Continue reading

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Adventures in the Kitchen, aka I’m a Real Adult Now

Baked, stuffed tomatoes with sausage and rice, pasta with homemade parmesan and romano cream sauce, steamed peas, and a double-chocolate brownie cake with powdered sugar and whipped cream to top it off. If your mouth isn’t watering right now, I … Continue reading

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Misadventures in Shanghai, China: Setting Trip Goals

From January 18 – February 8, 2012, I will be in Shanghai, China tasting every delicacy I can find, participating in the Spring Festival/Chinese New Year celebrations and trying to not get hit by a car while crossing the street. … Continue reading

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Kitchen Misadventures: It's a Non-Traditional Canadian Thanksgiving, Eh

I love Canadians. They’re just so full of personal freedoms and healthy from affordable healthcare, you just can’t help but love them. Because Canada fed and liquored me up so well when I was there recently, I thought I’d return … Continue reading

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Kitchen Misadventure: Dragon's Blood aka Triple Berry Jam

Before we go any further on this post, I have to say that you shouldn’t follow anything outlined in this recipe because honestly, I have no idea if my jam is going to stay sterile or kill all of my … Continue reading

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Strawberries, cream…and tequila?

Like many college students, I’ve moved back home for the summer. When I haven’t been busy with classes and engaging in tomfoolery with people whom I’ve called friends since, well, before puberty, I’ve been busying myself with catching up on … Continue reading

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Recipe: The Best Crab Cakes You'll Ever Have (seriously, the best)

Since I’ve started A Healthy Challenge, I’ve been finding ways to up my fish intake so I can get some of those important oils and nutrient everyone keeps telling me about. To help with recipe ideas, I busted out a Mayo … Continue reading

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Recipe: Trumpet Mushroom, Pea, Crab Stir-fry over Lemon Garlic Kale

These days, I rarely cook mushrooms as D.E. is highly closed minded about eating them. Ze says they make zir break out in a rash and feel horrible, I say excuses, excuses. But, when D.E. is away, L.M. gets to … Continue reading

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