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…

Flourless Chocolate Cake

It was Archaellys’ birthday the other day and I wanted to do something special for him.  I let him pick the movie night noms for that week, but I definitely wanted to add an element of surprise.  I used to bake people homemade cakes from scratch, but of course, with me being gluten free, birthday…

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.

Spicy Iranian Chicken Stew

I love my chiropractor.  She’s totally like a big sister to me, and being an only, I’ve always wanted a big sister.  Lauren is one of the most supportive people I know – she’s always willing to listen and help steer or give advice.  In fact, she’s one of my biggest cheerleaders and gave me…

Sukiyaki

I was trying to figure out what to make that would go along with our Miyazaki night of Howl’s Moving Castle and Ponyo…  There are so many delicious Japanese noms that I could make work.  At first I thought about trying to figure out a gluten friendly version of ramen, since that’s what they eat…

Lost Thanksgiving Recipe Round-Up

There were a few recipes missing from my Thanksgiving post so I’m going to put them all in one place: here.  I know Thanksgiving is pretty much a distant memory as we move closer to Christmas.  It was only a little more than a week ago, guys.  Seriously.  A week.  WTF? Anyway, back to the…

Buffalo Chicken Bites and Gluten Free Mac and Cheese

HOLY SWEET BABY JEBUS.  Mac and cheese was my ultimate comfort nom when I was kid.  I would make the blue box stuff almost every Saturday morning for myself at first thing and have it for breakfast while I watched Saturday Morning Cartoons.  And I don’t mean the sissy cartoons they show now (do Saturday…

Pho-tastic Voyage

Pho.  Is.  The.  Best.  Ever. The only thing is I always feel too full of sodium afterward because I do my best to not leave a drop of that delicious broth behind.  So in my quest to be healthier about things and knowing exactly what’s in my food, I decided to try to make my…

Thanksgiving Extravaganza!!

Thanksgiving is pretty much my favorite holiday. I mean, Thanksgiving is basically Christmas without all the gift giving crap.  Don’t get me wrong, gifts are cool and all, but I totally stress out about who to get presents for and being fair and all kinds of crap.  So… just… no.  Let’s eat.  I’m all about…

Roasted Carrots and Swiss Chard

These two recipes will conclude the first series of Movie Night Noms.  I like to break up the recipes so they’re not all in one post, but I’m curious if other people like this format. Comment if you have an opinion about it – otherwise I’ll assume this is fine. Roasted carrots are stupid easy…

Mashed Potatoes and Gravy

Who doesn’t love mashed taters and gravy?  They go with everything, especially giant loaves of meat.  They’re really very simple, but everyone always has their own version of mashed potatoes that they swear by.  This is a pretty basic recipe, but just like the meatloaf, it can be augmented to be any other form of…