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I made this up in my head and cooked it up last night.  The idea came from different things I’ve cooked or eaten in the past combined with what I had in the fridge and freezer.

rolled chicken and orzo

First I rolled up some pounded chicken breast with prosciutto, spinach and cheese.  I tied it up with bucher’s twine.  Then I seared it on all sides in some rosemary and garlic infused butter and olive oil.

I deglazed the pan with some chicken stock and cooked the rolled chicken with some orzo, tomatoes and more rosemary.

It always feels good when everybody is fighting for the leftovers.

I’ve been working hard trying to figure out how to best make a burger.

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This is what I made last weekend… but I was too drunk and hungry to actually know how good it was.

I know. Who says “I made a roast”? Let’s see… old white ladies?

Well I guess I’m an old white lady. Heavens to Betsy!

I forgot to take pictures of the roasted red potatoes and carrots and the gravy I made from the drippings (and horseradish sauce!).

It was like a mini Thanksgiving meal. Maybe I’ll do this next time everybody comes over… it was a bit too much work for just 3 of us.

Making meatballs is no joke… it takes a long time and it’s really messy. Go hug your mom and tell her thanks for making meatballs for you when you were a bratty little kid!

I made these the other day… they were pretty good! Using some milk soaked bread and a pork/beef combo made a really big difference.

Tacos Gringos

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I made.

Sorry for the bad cell phone pics.

Deep fried to finish off what the Big Mac started.

Yakitori Mania

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Ever since we had Yakitori at Shinsengumi in Gardena, life has never been the same – we crave it ALL THE TIME. Yakitori is Japanese style bbq where the meat is skewered – usually not huge honking skewers like kabobs, but much smaller. The point is to order a variety of them and usually to be drunk at the same time – which really helps with paying the bill because yakitori is generally very pricey. If you can manage to not get carried away in conversation and beers and the reckless ordering of more food, it would be a lot cheaper, but what is the fun in that?!

I’ve been trying to figure out a way to have yakitori at home so that we could afford to eat it more often… so far I’ve found a lot of these grills that are much too small…


Here’s a cool one… it’s long so you can put a lot of skewers on it, but the sucky thing is – it’s electric! I’m pretty sure to get the authentic taste, you need to use charcoal.


Here’s one that is way too small, but at least it uses charcoal. I’m gonna have to get 3 of these! One for each person!

So far I’m not sure what to do… I don’t really like either of those 2 grills.