Outpost 505

Necessity is the mother of invention, right?  Tonight’s dinner is brought to you by the urgency of thawing food from the freezer and of a giant bag of corn dropped on a doorstep.

Photo by beanqueen
A pound of shrimp that half thawed over the weekend, peeled and quickly sauteed. A couple of spoonfuls of yesterday’s [...]

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Though my siblings and I are enthusiastic carnivores, our parents don’t eat that much meat, so planning a dinner for the whole family can be tricky.  When mulling over our options this morning, though, Mom and I hit on an excellent plan: a shrimp boil.  And also cheddar biscuits.  And maybe cupcakes for dinner.  The [...]

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I’m a little in love with Sprouted Kitchen.  Their food photography is consistently wonderful – to the point that when I showed Shane tonight’s recipe on the blog, he asked “do they cook outside?”.  Seriously, they must be blessed with the best lighting in all of Southern California.
This dish feels very Southern Californian to me  [...]

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I am not exaggerating when I say that I came home tonight after my run and took all of the produce out of the fridge in order to figure out what to make for dinner.  Did I want to use the three very wilted stems of collard greens left from making the coleslaw?  No.  How [...]

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I say ‘last minute’ because I really didn’t have a plan tonight.  Well, I kind of had a plan, but then it was extremely rainy, and also we went out to dinner last night, and the quantity of cheese and fancy fish on hand wasn’t really enough to constitute a meal, per se.  I also [...]

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I’ve been stalling on posting this because Shane took a couple of really lovely photos of this delicious dinner that I wanted to include in the post.  So blame the tardiness on him.  It’s definitely his fault.  And definitely not the fault of the post-vacation sleepies.  Nooooo, never that.

Seriously, though, this was a recipe worth [...]

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When last we encountered soba, it was in the context of a wild goose chase that took us to five separate grocery stores.  In hopes of avoiding said goose chase, we bought a couple of packets, the last of which has lingered in our pantry until tonight.  I gave yet another Moosewood recipe a try, [...]

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So the idea for the evening was that we’d come home, Shane would work out while I made dinner, and then we’d watch the State of the Union address. Instead, we were both starving when we got home, so that plan totally went out the window.  We worked together to prep the squash, pancetta, [...]

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