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Bizarre Recipes Vol. 1, No. 1: Baked Sweet Potatoes Mexicana
Lisa was browsing through Fitness Food and found this pretty odd recipe: a baked sweet potato covered with ground beef and salsa. Bizarre? Yep! We liked all the ingredients separately, however, so there was a pretty good chance it’d taste good together… and it did. The sweet of the potatoes was a nice contrast to […]
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Jalapeño Chicken Salad
We had a grilled chicken breast left over from last night’s pasta, and I’m a huge fan of chicken salad [shredded chicken, not cubed, please!], so I looked up recipes for a version that sounded a little different than the norm. I found this one on RecipeZaar; one bonus is that we had all the […]
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Warm Chicken and Pasta Salad
Tonight Lisa made this recipe, the first from a new cookbook we recently spotted in the Bargain Books section: Fitness Food. This cookbook presents recipes that have been “specially developed for active people”; to us it just looks like a nice collection of well-balanced, healthy recipes. I’m sure we’ll be making more from this book […]
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Orange-Marinated Grilled Chicken with Smoky Tomato Salsa and Green Rice
Tonight we tag-teamed dinner, with Lisa making a cilantro-tomatillo rice while I took care of the chicken and salsa. The recipes were from two different sources, but went really, really well with each other. We loved the smoky tomato salsa, it was excellent with both the chicken and the rice. The grilled chicken recipe is […]
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Fattoush with Grilled Shrimp
The temperatures in Seattle have finally cooled a bit, but inside the house it’s still pretty warm — so we’re still on a “how can we cook without heating up the kitchen” kick. Tonight we made fattoush, a Lebanese/Syrian salad that features a variety of veggies and toasted pita bread — but with a twist. […]