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Easter at Rik & Nancy’s

Dang. Rik's starring in a new Sprite commercial that aired last night during American Idol. I joined him and the family for Easter dinner where he showed me a rough cut of it. It's really rad. Cheerleaders, kun...

Almost forgot Chimichurri

I meant to bring home cilantro, but instead mistakenly got parsley.  I was thinking dang, only thing we can use it for now is garnish like at Denny's. Then Rusty reminded me about chimichurri sauce. Not sure i...

Todd makes his Grandma’s Blintzes

Todd's been learning how to make his grandmother's potato blintzes and I get to eat them the next day.  She scoffed at him over the phone because he partially used potato flakes. I still thought they were real...

Veggie Grill Packet

Amazing weather up here in NY finally. At the moment, we're grilling up these little packets of vegetables my friends Ryan and Meghan showed me years ago. Just foil packets of mushrooms, peppers, onions, etc wi...

Jessica will cook you pasta!

My friends and cookie party co-hosts, This Frontier Needs Heroes, are fundraising on Kickstarter for their next album. One of the reward pledges is having Jessica make you a pasta dinner, for which I had the pl...

Super Bowl Dip ’10

We hosted the football party last night. Russ and Bonnie both made their own separate pots of vegetarian chili. I was so confused. Why two chilis and why both vegetarian? Some of the chili went into a Frito Pie...