Moms do everything better

Tonight I tried to recreate this thing that my mom used to make all the time when I was little involving rice, tofu and mushrooms.  It didn’t work, but what I ended up with was okay, anyway:

It looks kind of risottoy, but that’s through no talent of my own.  I just over cooked the rice [...]

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Failure

I really have to start paying attention to recipes, cause I totally screwed up tonight.  I attempted to make this recipe after seeing it on Jenny’s blog.   But somehow, I missed the part about three eggs.  In fact, I not only missed it tonight, I missed it when I originally read the recipe and made [...]

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Tempeh!

I always feel like I should shout that word for some reason, possibly because it is so tasty.  Especially if you marinate it the way Heidi Swanson tells you to:

This is her maple grilled tempeh.  Except it’s not grilled because I’m not allowed to use my grill pan.
On the side, we had Trader Joe’s brown [...]

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Getting it right

Man, this was good:

I have no idea what to call it, so we’re going to go with shrimp and rice salad.  Chris wanted me to name it “Shrimp Surprise.”  He’s quite creative.
Anyway, the recipe.  I made it up as I went along but I think I have the proportions about right:
3/4 cup brown rice
1 or [...]

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This could be trouble

Sorry for the late post, I didn’t eat any snacks this afternoon.
Unless you consider about a pound of cookie dough a snack.
I don’t.

Chocolate chip cookies.  I made them for my friend’s bbq tomorrow.  And then I ate three.  And then I stood over the tupperware container, staring at them.  Chris finally pulled me away when [...]

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Here is some food.

Tonight for dinner I did a little experiment and made fish in foil packets:

You’ll have to trust me on the foil; I didn’t want to plop a big old mess down on the plates.
So here’s the general recipe I used.  I kind of winged it, so measurements are approximate:
3 T soy sauce
2 T maple syrup [...]

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A different direction

During Monday’s mad rush around Trader Joe’s, I accidentally bought the shrimp that you have to peel yourself.  I am not a big fan of touching raw meat, mostly because it’s disgusting, so I was pretty unhappy about this.  Luckily, it only took me about 30 seconds to peel these suckers, and I only threw [...]

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