Outpost 505

We’re making some changes around here.  As a result, I’ve had less to blog about because frankly, food has been making me crazy. See, a few weeks ago Shane decided to get recommitted to fitness and weight loss.  We both … Continue reading →

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Dinner tonight? Really and truly exceptional.  Shane gave it five stars.  I wish I’d taken a picture. Instead you’ll have to imagine pan-fried corn and shallots tossed with snow peas, shrimp, and a handful of slow-roasted cherry tomatoes served over creamy and wonderful grits.  A pinch of red pepper flakes to add a bit of [...]

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A few weeks ago Susie and Matt started floating an idea around.  I don’t know if it was an idea so much as it was a concept, which in my head are subtly different.  Maybe an idea is more actionable?  I don’t know. Anyway, here’s the concept: vacation photos on a slide projector.  Cocktails and [...]

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Or: Farfalle with Shrimp and Arugula Sometime in July, I planted arugula.  Shane isn’t particularly a fan – he likes his salad greens a bit milder – but I hoped for a few salads, maybe a batch of pesto or two.  Nothing big.  It was already the middle of the summer, after all, and nothing [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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