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You Can’t BEET A Good Salad

It’s time for another 4 Ingredient Challenge.  One of the best things about doing the 4 Ingredient Challenge each month is the opportunity to cook with ingredients I’ve never used before.  In this particular case I was “forced” to use two new ingredients: Kumquats and Beets.

Somewhere in the back of my mind I have a

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Simple Grilled Flank Steak

Today’s dinner was a simple grilled flank steak with grilled potatoes and some heirloom tomatoes out of the garden.  It just amazes me how good tomatoes out of the garden can be.  I like tomatoes in salads and on hamburgers but unless they are garden fresh tomatoes I can’t eat them as a side dish.

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A couple random Christmas food pictures

Last year we started having a low key Christmas.  With Charle’s birthday on Christmas Eve it just became to much to have his birthday and then a full blow “holiday dinner” on Christmas.  So now we get up, not to early, have some of Celeste’s awesome cinnamon rolls and then open presents.  After presents we

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Healthier Grilling Is Possible

Now that my wife and I are “empty nesters” we are enjoy trying different types of foods and flavor profiles that we couldn’t try with kids at home. We are also trying to eat healthier. Ellie Krieger’s book “The Food You Crave” has given us several great meals that don’t necessarily taste “healthy.”

Tonight

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