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Spaghetti Squash with Special Sauce!
Squash has been dated as far back as 7,000 B.C. in parts of Mexico and South America. According to The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink, explorers from Europe originally thought squash were...
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A new adventure has begun
I'm just getting settled in Austin, Texas!A great opportunity has come my way and for the second time in my life, I decided to pull up stakes and leave the comforts of the Midwest and Northern...
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My snack tonight
Fresh made corn tortilla, chorizo, cumin crusted pork, refried beans and red onion — drizzled with a chipotle ranch sauce — a tasty treat indeed!A little snack thrown together with odds and ends left...
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Friday Night, Taco Night
Fresh corn tortilla, steak, cilantro and onion with chipotle ranch sauce.Friday dinner is reserved for tacos.When I first moved to Austin I set aside Friday nights to hit new taco joints in search of...
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Nacho Cheesy Rice
I enjoy making dishes like this for work during the week. It stores well and reheats nicely in the microwave, but most importantly, it really is a tasty dish. I can eat it like a dip with tortilla...
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Eggs over easy
I can plate up some mean biscuits and gravy, pancakes, frittatas, omelets and many other breakfast favorites but I had never been any good at making a fried egg over easy. Broken yolks and a glob of...
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Cheesy Beef Rotini
Pasta and cheese go together like yin and yang. Add ground beef and you get shamalama ding dang!I bought a 3-pound package of ground beef on sale that I divided for three meals. The first of which was...
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Country Fired Chicken with Pepper Gravy
What do you do when you get home from a luau featuring a limbo contest and a surf-thrash band?Make a batch of country-fried chicken and a side of pepper gravy is what you do!That's what I did...
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Homemade French Fries
Great homemade french fries are not as easy as they seem to make. Getting the crispy outside and soft, pillowy inside takes some work. I think they are the greatest side dish of all-time and are...
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Chili ATX
For the first time in my culinary career, I won a cooking contest!In celebration of the NFL opening weekend, my work sponsored a chili cook off. Of the 250 or so employed at The Gatehouse Center for...
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The Bites Awaken
There has been an awakening. I have felt it.For the last year, I have been enjoying the great music and food culture that Austin provides. It's an amazing place for a life-long musician to live and...
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Sauteed Radishes
I have had roasted radishes many times and really enjoyed them. They are a close substitute for a roasted potato. This is the first time I tried to saute radishes. I did it simple — with olive oil,...
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Chicken Tenders with Peppers and Onions
This plate is a perfect example of how I have been preparing diners with less carbs in mind. In the past, I would have served this — sauted onions, peppers and chicken — over a heaping mound of white...
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Low Carb Burger and Fries
Ok. Its not actual fries - but one can dream. It's asparagus spears — and they were still pretty tasty.Using lettuce to wrap the double-cheese turkey burger — that's the real low carb thing about this...
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Shrimp Tacos with Chipolte Ranch Sauce
I'm not the biggest seafood fan in the world. In general, I like it best when the "fish" flavor is mild and it's breaded and fried.Shrimp is a different story. As long as it's ultra fresh, I like it...
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Get Rid of It Frittata
The only thing in this dish not leftover or standing on the edge of spoiled are the eggs and chipotle ranch sauce made a couple days ago. I think the Gods of fresh food smiled on my effort to not waste...
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Creamy Spaghetti Squash Bake
This was a treat. I loved it — and it was an experiment! I will be refining this for sure, but it's worthy of a post.I made this recipe low-carb by using spaghetti squash where I would have used...
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Fish Tacos (Tilapia)
I inhaled six of these like a wale feeding on plankton.They were the small "street taco" size corn tortillas from Mission. Which helped them go down fast! Dinner on Friday is an event if I'm not going...
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Grilled Chicken Salad
I love leftover grilled chicken, the smoky grill flavor stays as long as it’s edible and provides an extra layer of flavor to whatever it’s used in.This recipe features chicken grilled over charcoal...
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The Double Turkey Burger Eggplant Stack!
This low-carb mountain consists of sliced eggplant and ground turkey patties - grilled, stacked and drizzled with my favorite homemade sauce - which for me, in this case, is Sweet Pickle Ranch...
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