Corned Beef and Cabbage

Wanna hear something mind blowing, my fellow Americans?  I’ve heard that corned beef and cabbage isn’t really a traditional Irish meal for St. Patrick’s Day.  Whaaaaaaaaaaat? Normally I would get all geeky and research this, but I’m going to go the lazy route and simply say that corned beef and cabbage is a tradition in…

Movie Night Noms: Chicken Pot Pie

When Arc completed South Park: The Stick of Truth, we thought what better for movie night than to watch South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut.  Of course that only meant that I had to make chicken pot pie, riiiiight?  Oh yes.  Chicken freaking pot pie… I’ve done this with traditional pie dough, as you’ll see…

Garlic Bread Pizza

So this one time when Arc was craving French Bread Pizza and the store was out because there was a sale, Snarfy and Arc had an idea… Snarfy offered to actually make French Bread Pizza for him, but Arc wanted to one up it into Garlic Bread Pizza.  Of freaking course!  Arc is a genius!…

Chicken Curry

Curry is really awesome.  What I like about it is that it’s actually really versatile.  There’s Thai curry, Japanese curry, Chinese curry, Indian curry… Red curry, yellow curry, green curry… I feel a little bit like I’m writing a Dr. Seuss book: One Curry, Two Curry, Red Curry, Yellow Curry.  I never really adhere too…

Pot Roast

Pot Roast.  Two magical words right there.  POT freaking ROAST. Pot roast was one of my absolute favorites as a kid.  My aunt would make it for me when I would come for my annual summer visits and I didn’t even care if it was hot outside and the oven warmed up the house.  She…

Food Porn: Nick’s Family Restaurant

  Seriously Snarfy?  No posts for almost a month?  WTF? I’m sorry, people.  I’m working on catching up.  I promise.  Life has just been… well… life.  In the meantime, here’s some food porn from a local favorite.  It’s a Joe’s Special with jack cheese and home fries.  OM NOM NOM!

Food Porn: Casino Dinner Buffet

What do you do when you get to the casino buffet three minutes before they close?  That actually means that the food will start getting pulled in about 25 minutes, so there’s plenty of time for one trip, but don’t you “need to get your money’s worth?”  Hahaha!  Archaellys and I celebrated Single Awareness Day…

Beef Stew

Confession time: I didn’t like stew as a child.  I was more about soup.  But now I loooooove stew.  Especially when it’s cold out.  OMG yes.  Here’s a pretty basic recipe that you can make on the stovetop if you have an hour or two until dinner.  If you have longer, go ahead and assemble…

Finger Foods of Epicness

I must hate me.  Seriously, because why else would I make a dinner consisting of only finger foods?  While I loooooooove finger foods something fierce, they are one of the harder things to assemble when there’s an assortment.  But here’s what I made for movie night on January 31 (sorry it’s late… been busy with…

Lost Movie Night Noms: Arc’s Birthday Dinner

It was Archaellys’ birthday not that long ago and somehow I forgot to post the coordinating movie night nom for that celebration. Oops. I don’t know how it happened, but the week must have gotten away from me. It’s always kind of my thing to let the birthday celebrant pick whatever they want and I’ll…

Jerk Chicken Stew with Coconut Rice

Archaellys has fallen in love with Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and I have to admit, it is a gorgeous game!  This, of course, influenced our last movie night and we had a pirate theme.  Treasure Island (1950) and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.  Naturally I wanted our noms to…

Food Porn: Carnitas

I know I tweeted this pic out the other night when I was eating it, but I just had to post the delicious carnitas here too.  You know, for safe keeping.  Good grief, La Piñata, you make some AMAZING carnitas.