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daily eats: 5.28.11

May 31, 2011

I have to admit, I kind of love doing the daily eats posts from time to time – I hope you do too! Weekends are often quite different in terms of eating for me…no 6am yoga (thankfully!), breakfasts at home, hopefully made by the Taster and perhaps one my favorite things? Coffee out of a [...]

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orange ale vinaigrette & arugula salad

May 23, 2011

The same Food & Wine that featured an Umami Burger on the cover, also had a recipe for an Orange and Ale Vinaigrette but it was the Taster’s eye that was caught initially and not mine. I decided it would be perfect to bring to a cookout as my “something healthy” contribution. Sometimes I can [...]

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review: garlic gold balsamic dressing

April 26, 2011

I’ve heard a number of great things about Garlic Gold and with a combo of garlic and olive oil I’m not sure how you could go wrong. My life wouldn’t be complete with out the two. Honestly. If my memory serves me, I tried this years ago at the first Natural Products Expo I attended [...]

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daily eats: 4.1.11

April 6, 2011

After a quick twitter poll (love Twitter.) I decided that I would do some “daily eats” posts from time to time. I’ve done them a few times, but I think it will give a better and closer look on how I actually eat, day to day, boring food and all. It’s not all exciting eats [...]

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restaurant: spoonriver

January 14, 2011

It’s such a shame that this was our first visit to spoonriver, perhaps part of me realized how much I would love it and considering that it is a few blocks away from home, this could be a very dangerous thing for my budget. But on a frigid Sunday morning, we decided to go out [...]

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picky lunches

December 29, 2010

I am admittedly picky about my lunch selections. I like them to be: Preferably vegan or vegetarian Full of vegetables But not frozen vegetables as they are never as good heated, cooled and then microwaved Heatable in a microwave Preferably warm in the winter, not in the summer Must be full of protein and good [...]

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