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0606 Race-Day Swamp Monster Soup

June 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments

I ran my second 5K of the year this morning: the annual Dexter-Ann Arbor Run.  I had intended to run the 10K, but an injury a few weeks ago has kept me sidelined, and this was the longest run I’ve managed in a few weeks.  As always, the best part of running a race is [...]

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0520 Spinach Frittata

May 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment

We’re on the cusp of summer right now, halfway between the austerity of winter vegetables and the abundance right around the corner.  Around this time of year, my thinking about food gets all muddled up.  In the colder months, we fall into a routine of planning meals, then going to the grocery store with our [...]

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0516 Sausages and polenta again

May 16th, 2010 · No Comments

With any good party comes the not-so-good day after – you know, waking up late, drinking coffee slowly, maybe eating a bit of greasy breakfast to counteract the previous night’s excess.  We had a little of that this morning – but we also had the most beautiful Sunday we’ve seen in a while, so felt [...]

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0505 Linguini with Spinach and Goat Cheese

May 5th, 2010 · No Comments

Dinner was simple and delicious.  I made a tomato sauce last night to save time for tonight’s prep – so making dinner was as simple as warming up the sauce and boiling the pasta, then tossing a few handfuls of fresh spinach into the sauce at the last minute.  When combined and then dotted with [...]

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0405 Shrimp and Grits

April 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments

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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