Author: cryskie
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Chicken Tetrazzini!
I bought a new cookbook: The Best Simple Recipes from America’s Test Kitchen. I lurve it. It’s full of tasty-looking, non-intimidating recipes, and I want to make every one of them! For now I’ll share this one with you, but you should really just go buy the book, because seriously, it’s a good one. Chicken…
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The Tigress
Peeps, you should sneak on over to The Tigress Pub on North Loop. Pam just opened the tiny bar, and she has a small menu of really good, classic cocktails (at only $7 each!), and the coolest beer tap ever. Also, she uses mix-and-match vintage glassware. So cute!
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Foreign & Domestic Food & Drink
We had dinner with friends at Foreign & Domestic, and it was so very good! It’s such a tiny space… a few small tables and booths, and some seats at the bar. I liked the pillows along the benches… it helped soften things up a bit (both physically and visually). (Everybody say hi, Chad!) I…
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Finding my crockpot, again
It’s not that I misplace it, really, it’s just that I forget that I have it. And then, every year or so, I realize that it’s there, and I use every week, until I don’t. And then the cycle repeats. So, hey! I have a crockpot! And I made beef stew, and lo, it was…
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BLTs, potato salad and daquiris
This was such a good meal… and it was one of those thrown-together-at-the-last-minute things, too! I made BLTs… just bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayo on toasted bread. It felt like such a treat somehow. I used up some red potatoes and green beans from our Farmhouse bin… I just boiled them up separately until they…