When I was new to cooking if I ran across a recipe that called for chili powder and ancho chili powder I would have simply added those amounts together and dumped in the cheapest store brand chili powder I had on hand. When I was a new blogger I’d constantly try to take baked casserole [...]
Why is it that when I’m in need of a quick meal, only Asian dishes come to mind? They seem to be the quickest type of meal to whip up and are always so satisfying. I was planning to make some sort of pasta with cream sauce, spinach, and mushrooms when I got totally overwhelmed [...]
Boxes of prefried taco shells come in a 1o count or a 12 count. That works pretty well for the Omnivore and I because I don’t make side dishes when we have tacos for dinner I have serious portion control issues The Omnivore forgets to eat so is often starving by dinner But I’ve stopped [...]
I know that when food is properly fried the amount of added calories from the oil is negligible (10%). I also know that deep frying probably doesn’t occur ‘properly’ in the house o’ Branny. And I just feel better about foods in general when they are baked rather than fried. And I truly believe that [...]
Last weekend the Omnivore and I hosted a Tacky Sweater Christmas Party. At the last minute I sort of panicked, thinking we didn’t have enough food, and sent my husband to the corner gas station buy a couple of extra bags of tortilla chips. We [...]
