Category Archives: recipes & cooking

this week’s meal plan

I admit it, I’ve let my meal plan slide a bit over the past few weeks. To make myself feel better, I’ve decided I’ve just been VERY EUROPEAN, heading to the grocery store every day. Yeah. Time to get back to it – simply because it makes life so.much.easier. Truly. • Monday – Shake and…

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Recipe: Chicken Marsala

Marsala wine sauce didn’t enter my life until my 20s. I was dating Vic and we often went to one of Schenectady’s (many) Italian restaurants. I’m guessing it was Cornell’s, and my life was forever changed. You mean Italian didn’t have to be RED SAUCE FROM A JAR?!!? I’ve since grown into someone who loves…

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roasted chickpeas

Everyone has their snacking vice. For me, you can skip the sweet – at around 4:15 every.single.day I crave salty and crunchy. Since my goal is healthy, protein-filled eating, I typically reach for Newman’s Own Protein Pretzels or a handful of Cashews. Then I saw these mentioned online. Truth: I do NOT like chickpeas. At…

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lamb gyros

You may have gathered that I *love* to grill. After going through several cheap grills over the years, we invested in a nice Weber a few years ago that now looks like it should be sitting behind an abandoned house. But HEY, she works JUST FINE. I love to grill so much that – instead…

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christina’s broccoli salad.

About a year ago, I attended a holiday party at a neighbor’s house where she served a delicious quiche and this…this…this AMAZING concoction with broccoli and raisins and…Heaven, if truth be told. That could be the only explanation for the delight of this particular dish. As I was attending this party with several other lovely…

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