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Hoisin Beef
Ahhh the warm California air is so glorious! So what am I doing blogging right?? Well, I had this post saved so that I could post it while I was away because I did promise you all another recipe from my Great Food for Great Friends post. Here is the last recipe from the night of cooking with my friends. The recipe is for Hoisin Beef skewers. I wanted to make something that was easy for my guests to eat AND enjoy. That is why I decided to skewer the beef. The original recipe was for beef tenderloin steaks but this was a little less formal and more keeping with…
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Great Food for Great Friends
Saturday of this past weekend was a fun day…I invited over some good friends and we had a great time eating, drinking, and just socializing. Once I knew that people were going to be coming over I decided I wanted to do something a little different for dinner than what I normally do. It is always great to break from the mold :-). I know a lot of people who tend to try and stick to what they know when they have guests coming over because normally, that makes for a guaranteed good meal. ::raises right hand:: I am very guilty of this! However, this time I wanted to step…
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Bourbon Marinated Flank Steak
I am so excited! I have raised $360 so far for the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure walk! According to my site I am 16% done with my goal ($2,300) only 2 weeks in. I am so overwhelmed with how generous people are being, even some of you fellow bloggers out there have donated for me. I cannot thank you enough for all your support!! It is an amazing cause and I really hope that I get to walk in it this summer. If you haven’t checked it out, see what it is all about by visiting my site here —> Help Raven Walk for the Cure! As…
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Beef & Broccoli
Once again the Northeast is supposed to be hit with a really bad snowstorm this afternoon into tomorrow. I seriously don’t know where we are going to put all the snow! haha, I think I may have prayed a littttle to hard for snow this year. After this storm we are going to have 4 feet of snow on the ground, which is awesome! You know what else it is awesome?! When someone cooks you dinner…there is just nothing like getting dinner made for you in my opinion. I mean, don’t get my wrong, I LOVE to cook but sometimes it is nice to have someone else do the work…
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SNOW DAY!
Can you believe it?! I actually got a snow day! WOOOHOOOO! I am 25 (5 days until I am 26, ah!) and I got a snow day! Holy moly what a day it was too! The area I live in easily got 36″ of snow. I am not joking you when I say it is probably the biggest snowstorm I have ever seen. It started snowing at about 3am on Wednesday morning, I woke up at 6am to find out I had NO WORK, yesssssssss! The snow was steady until about 7pm that night and then it finally tapered off. I was literally outside shoveling snow probably 4 times yesterday.…
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Steaks – Cast Iron Style
Happy Thursday! This week has been seriously nutty. Seems like it is so busy for me. Maybe it is because everyone is just getting back to work from the holidays, which always causes all sorts of pandemonium. Or at least it does at my office. I feel like getting back to my daily grind and schedule, I guess I didn’t realize how busy I really am. Craziness! I feel like there is just so much going on this month…so many birthday’s (including my own), traveling for work, young professional events, celebrations. GAH! All families have those months where all the birthday’s/anniversary’s/big news seems to happen all at once. January is…
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Steak and Orzo
I’m back! Hello all! I hope you are having a great week so far. I just got back from my PA trip. Overall it went pretty good, the company was good so that made it better. It is hard to travel like that for almost an entire week, especially when you have to drive the whole way. Our trip was about 5 1/2 hours from where I am located in CT. Makes for a long couple days, BUT I got to have Yuengling which made me extremely happy (again if you don’t know what Yuengling is…check out my previous post there is a website). I wanted to share one of…
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Jalapeno Burgers
Happy Thursday to you all! I am getting settled from my trip I was just on in Baton Rouge finally. I literally ate celery at lunch yesterday with a bottle of water. I was STILL full from lunch the day before at lunch time the next day. Sheesh! I wish I could have stayed longer but I don’t know if my waistline could have handled it, haha. We are still experiencing rain in the northeast which makes it hard to get out of bed, but also gives you more time to look up some new recipes for things because you are stuck inside. I had a hankering for a burger…
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Kabobs
Love summer time! Summer time to me is so much fun, not just for the sun and vacations…but for the grill! I find that if I am ever in doubt as to what I should make for dinner…I head for the grill. You can make some of the best food on the grill….although I have to admit I have had some mishaps. Like, for example, the first time I tried to make pizza on the grill. Let’s just say the people at the grocery store saw me twice in one day, one hour apart. 😛 Anyways, I wanted to make something on the grill and kabobs are always a good…