by Bianca Garcia on May 24, 2013
Let’s take a break from all the food-filled travel posts so I can share one of my newest favorite recipes.
(And by favorite I mean I’ve been making this on back to back weeks.)
It’s healthy. Really!
Sure, I eat fried chicken and pasta (a lot of pasta, actually). But the truth is: when I’m not traveling, when I’m not eating out with friends, when I’m not baking some over-the-top dessert for this blog, I prefer easy, nutritious, home-cooked meals. I’ve talked about it before: the meals I eat when I’m alone in my kitchen – I eat a lot of fruits and veggies, I prepare a lot of vegetarian side dishes and appetizers that almost invariably become main meals, and I even make some low carb meals.*
*But make no mistake, I always save room for dessert. Everything in moderation, right?
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by Bianca Garcia on May 20, 2013
Remember when I let my inner fat kid rejoice at West Bridge with their fried chicken skin?
Well, when I went to Dallas, that fat kid was speechless with joy. Because we had a meal that included a bucket of fried chicken so good, it almost induced happy tears in all of us.Then we rounded up that meal with mac and cheese, squash puppies, grapefruit beer, sweet tea, chocolate cake, and a pie made with chocolate, pecans, and bourbon.
The night before that, we had another meat fest. We went to one of the city’s hot new restaurants and splurged on steaks and fried green tomatoes, plus a bowl of cowboy stew that had (vegans, look away now. Look far, far away.) the entrails and internal organs of a calf.
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by Bianca Garcia on May 16, 2013
When I found out that I was going to be in Chicago for three days for work, I made a list (I’m a list-maker at heart, remember?) of not just the things I wanted to do and places I wanted to see, but also (of course) a list of things I wanted to eat.
You can probably guess that one of those things was an authentic deep dish pizza.
I also wanted to eat a Chicago-style hot dog, check out one of Stephanie Izard‘s restaurants, plus a couple more places that are considered hot stuff by the locals.
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by Bianca Garcia on May 11, 2013
Do you know how many little Key limes I had to squeeze to extract one half cup of fresh juice?
22.
Twenty two Key limes cut in half, which makes it 44 pieces. That I individually squeezed by hand using my mom’s antique juicer. 44 pieces, at least five rotations each at the tip of the juicer. That’s at least 220 times of putting pressure and squeezing each little Key lime half so I can extract fresh juice.
Did my fingers cramp? Yes. Did I regret it? Not one bit. It was all worth it for this key lime pie.
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