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REDRUM!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u13EY8aKcfY] A few things to pay attention to: I am a spaz. Roomie & DD Girl are adorable. I am a spaz. I pace when I’m nervous. Lobsters make me scream.

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Fire & Wine – I did not boil my face off

I have a new toy. Isn’t she pretty? (Thank you, dear blogging friend.) It seemed more than appropriate to bring back Fire & Wine (post wedding break) and christen the new toy. And simultaneously try not to boil my face. Because we all know, I’m not to be trusted with even the simplest of kitchen [...]

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The elusive stuffed pepper conquered

A co-worker and I have been on the quest for a really good stuffed pepper recipe for a while now. It’s a running deal with us. We’re both anti-rice in our stuffed peppers and pro-meat.  But I’m of the belief that sausage needs to play a role in the pepper. (I mean duh, sausage and [...]

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2009: The year of discovering my inner culinary goddess

The year was 2009. It was a blank slate.  A fresh start from so many bad memories. And somehow, it ended up being my year in the kitchen. I didn’t intend to flex my cooking muscles. It wasn’t even a resolution. It happened organically. Hosting a party here, cooking a meal there, starting a fire [...]

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Dutch Oven

Wedding planning is stressful. It especially hurts the pocket book. (That’s North Carolinian for wallet. I like to throw out my old North Carolinian lingo sometimes. It makes me feel well-exposed to a variety of United States sub-cultures.) You can actually hear the tension in the Quirky household as we are trying to figure out [...]

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