Category: Food + Drink
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Spring rolls and miso soup
Justin really does go all out on our dinners at home. Twice so far he’s made spring rolls, which is kind of a tedious thing to make. He fills them with rice noodles, lettuce, cilantro, fried tofu, blanched carrots, and avocado. And then he makes homemade peanut sauce. I contribute to these meals by making…
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Lunch at my second home, aka necessary omega 3s
So I’ve been trying to get more Omega 3s in my diet. I know I could just pop a pill, but I hate pills, so I’m trying to fit in fatty fish twice a week (usually at lunch). This seemed like a good reason to visit FINO for lunch (they have salmon on the menu!).…
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Chicken and broccoli and gin
So Justin has been cooking dinners lately. I know, I know, I’m spoiled. He’s trying to allow evening time for me to go to the gym or take a yoga class. Did I already mention that I’m spoiled? Anyway, it’s fun to see what recipes he picks out. It’s like going to a restaurant that…
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Fry Bread Tacos
Okay, sooooo… here’s another video! My mom created this recipe after we had tried some fry bread from a roadside stand when we were traveling somewhere in New Mexico (Ruidoso?). Fry bread is a flat dough that’s deep fried to a crispy, puffy perfection. It’s similar to sweet fried breads like bunuelos, and sopaipillas, and…
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New Mexican Red Chile Sauce
On Sunday, we decided to try our hand at making New Mexican red chile sauce (chile colorado). I grew up in New Mexico, and pretty much everything is doused in either red or green chiles. My mom always made her own red chile sauce, which she froze in freezer bags, then thawed out through the…