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Fall Kale Salad with Pesto Chicken

October 22, 2014 by theeverykitchen@gmail.com 2 Comments

Mom made pesto and I used that to marinate the chicken, Shout out to her — thaaaaanks Mooooom! 🙂

I just spent four amazing days at the 2014 Food & Nutrition Conference and Expo. I packed one bag and came home with four. My bags are full of education materials and handouts, lots of food samples and kitchen utensils, and a couple of free cookbooks.

And that’s only the stuff I took home. I also ingested a fancy free dinner, a few gratis happy hours, a lot of education sessions, and a freakin’ ton of new food products. I met new friends, made industry contacts, swapped lots of business cards, and came home with some creative ideas for my career.

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Open-Faced Apple Shallot Sandwich

October 17, 2014 by theeverykitchen@gmail.com 2 Comments

We all know I’m a fan of the open-faced sandwich. I don’t think I’ve eaten a sammie with two pieces of bread since Mom packed me lunch in the 7^th grade. By the way, when I was in the 7^th grade, she used to send me to school with some kick-ass bagel sandwiches with horseradish. That’s right – horseradish. I was a cultured 7^th grader. I probably haven’t eaten a whole bagel since then either. Now I’m just into halves. Or open-faces.

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Goldfish-Crusted Okra with Spicy Tomato Dip

October 9, 2014 by theeverykitchen@gmail.com 1 Comment

I’ve been writing and deleting for almost an hour now. What’s the problem? It’s that I’m trying to make okra exciting.

Personally, I get really excited about okra.

But it’s really not that exciting. It’s a vegetable. It’s green. It’s slimy. A lot of people ~~don’t like~~ hate it. It’s either breaded and fried, like most Southern vegetables. Or stewed with tomatoes, like a lot of other Southern vegetables. It’s not super versatile.

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Warm Apple and Brussels Sprouts Salad with Candied Walnuts

October 6, 2014 by theeverykitchen@gmail.com Leave a Comment

My friends are growing up. We all get older, but I reserve the term “growing up” for those life events that are life-changing. Graduations. marriages. births. promotions. heartbreak. even travel can be life-changing.

In my experience, life-changing moments = abundance of food. And this weekend I was hit with two of those life-changing-decadent-table-spread-open-bar events – a baby shower and a wedding. Even my best intentions and pre-party pep talks of “You don’t have to eat cake just because there is cake” were not enough to actually keep me away from the cake. Or from the vino.

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Classic Gazpacho

September 13, 2014 by theeverykitchen@gmail.com Leave a Comment

I wait all year for fig season and then it comes and goes without me taking advantage of it. I think I bought figs once in July and that was it. At the beginning of September, there should be a few figs left, and so I got my grocery list prepared for Fig & Walnut Salad (a lady-meal to compliment last weekend’s man-meal), only to find that I couldn’t find any figs.

The BBF swears he has a fig tree outside his front door and that I will be able to pick some fruit in the near future. We’ll see. I’m skeptical.

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Sriracha Chicken Salad with Lime Vinaigrette

September 5, 2014 by theeverykitchen@gmail.com 4 Comments

Now that Labor Day festivities are over, time to refuel with green veggies. I browsed a bunch of blog sites several days ago to find salad recipes and came to a couple of conclusions: (1) Kale is trending and (2) I’m scared of it. So this is Sriracha Chicken Salad with Lime Vinaigrette and Not With Kale.

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Zucchini Noodles with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes

August 27, 2014 by theeverykitchen@gmail.com 2 Comments

This is the first post on my personal domain! I have no clue what I’m doing (as you can probably see from the current layout quirks). Naive me — I was shocked to find out that it’s really difficult to run your own site. “They” recommend that I hire someone to do all of this for me, but it’s very expensive. And now I know why. But hopefully, you’ll see this site becoming more personalized each time you visit.

And so, here’s a recipe and a post simply so I can take a break from my tech-heavy day. 🙂

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Blistered Mini Peppers

August 23, 2014 by theeverykitchen@gmail.com Leave a Comment

Yesterday was Clean Out the Fridge Friday.

Like most everyone else in America, I sometimes realize — I have no idea what’s in my fridge. What’s hiding in the back corners? in the bottom of the crisper? in that Tupperware container that’s who knows how old…?

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