31 Monday Oct 2011
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black beans, cheap food, cooking, curry powder, easy, entertaining, food, healthy, how to cook, island food, mexican, recipe, spicy food, vegan, vegetarian
It’s time to start working on our big, fun, easy, healthy meal for the next time you entertain! Like I said yesterday, we’re going to make several things this week that can all be combined to form one fun meal at the end of the week – invite someone over now!
You can read the first part of this installment here.
31 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in Comedy, Funny, Places We've Been, Relationship Ridiculousness
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comedy, creative costumes, fat people, funny, halloween, healthy, humorous, making fun of fat people, plastic spiders, velo fellow review
I hope you had a fabulous weekend. We did, thanks for asking!
Last week when we went to eat dinner with Jay’s dad at Velo Fellow, Jay somehow obtained a plastic spider ring. You know, the kind that becomes boring to regular humans after age 8. The ring came home with us from dinner, and I threw it away 3 times before I realized it. just. wouldn’t. leave.
30 Sunday Oct 2011
Happy Sunday! I trust this finds you having a relaxing weekend, maybe making some baked eggplant pasta for the coming week!
This week I’m going to show you several different recipes that come together to make one big, fun meal with several components that can be used for a PARTY.
I’m not going to tell you the main dish until Thursday or Friday (sometimes I get busy, people), but throughout the week I’ll show you the components needed to make this easy, fun, healthy, and FLAVORFUL meal a success. I hope you like it! If you’d like to go ahead and start guessing, here’s what the end result will look like!
That’s pretty, if I do say so myself. Feel free to guess what it is – the winner will get my admiration for having…eyes.
First, I’d like you to go ahead and familiarize yourself with homemade salsa and guacamole – they’re delicious and easy to make, and I’d highly recommend making them for this meal!
Go ahead and invite someone you like over for dinner and drinks next weekend, and we’ll spend the week figuring out what you can make for them!
Love and fake mystery,
Lindsay
28 Friday Oct 2011
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baked pasta, cheese, comfort food, eggplant, food, guy food, italian, noodles, pasta, recipes, sausage, spaghetti, spicy
I like planning. To a fault. I also like cooking, to a fault. The problem with that is that you can’t always plan how much time you’ll have after work, and often I get cravings for meals that take a bit more time to make and simply don’t have the energy to make them on a weeknight. This is one of those meals. The baked, spicy spaghetti is delicious every single time and KEEPS really well in the fridge. When I have the right ingredients I like to make a batch on Saturday or Sunday and then bake it in the oven whenever I need a quick meal during the week. It’s also a great meal to take to someone who’s sick, just had a baby, or who you feel like you owe a meal because you did something inappropriate at their house after drinking too much Baileys.
Also, there’s sausage in this meal.
28 Friday Oct 2011
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asparagus, budget, cheap cooking, fall, food, healthy, recipes, roasted asparagus, roasted veggies, steakhouse meals, vegan, vegetables, vegetarian
Weekends are always a great time to make what I call “steakhousy meals.” Some sort of nice grilled or broiled meat like blackened chicken with bread, salad, some sort of starch, and veggie. It’s fun and more affordable than going out, and you can experiment with your favorite restaurant flavors!
I made this last week for my mom’s birthday – it’s so easy and there are no measurements and very few ingredients. Also, just like with the roasted broccoli I make, this method can be used on any sturdy vegetable. Be creative!
26 Wednesday Oct 2011
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bar food, blue cheese, buffalo chicken, chicken tenders, dressing, easy cooking, food, how to cook, make your own, recipe, salad
We’ve had fabulously warm days this week, so I’d like to present you with a meal (it’s not really a meal) idea that’s light and fun and kind of like bar food all at the same time. What fun!
25 Tuesday Oct 2011
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cooking, delicious, food, fresh ginger, ginger pork, japanese cooking, pork chop, recipes, sesame, soy sauce
When I was in high school I had a sweet-a** cafeteria that had offerings like ramen (not the 68-cent stuff, massive bowls of noodles, veggies, and pork), curry with beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, fried fish, and spaghetti with meat sauce.
Wanna know the weird thing?
It was all good. Really good.
One of my favorite things that the cafeteria offered on a weekly basis was ginger chicken. Whole, bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts were simmered for hours in a thin fresh ginger-soy sauce and it. was. amazing. Everyone loved ginger chicken day!
I, uh, borrowed this sweet Japanese cookbook from my mom – she took a cooking class from the author when we moved to Tokyo and learned to make some fabulous dishes from it! I use it often, and the ginger pork recipe is one of my favorites – I’ve used it on chicken too, and it tastes just like high school!
25 Tuesday Oct 2011
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asian cooking, bok choy, chinese cooking, cooking, easy, food, healthy, japanese cooking, recipe, side dish, vegan, vegetable, vegetarian
There’s a restaurant in Tokyo (is it still there? anyone? nope, it isn’t. I Googled it. ) called Fujimamas that is amazing. Was amazing. That’s all. It served Asian Fusion food with a Japanese emphasis (duh) and was one of my favorite places to go growing up. One of my favorite dishes was grilled shark with baby bok choy and avocado and WHOA was it good. I’m not actually sure I ever ordered anything else there, come to think of it!
Fujimamas is one of my first memories of eating bok choy, and it was a great decision each time I ordered the dish. I got some baby bok choy from the farmers market a few weeks ago, and while I didn’t try to recreate the dish, I did try to recreate the flavors of the sauce with the veggie – this is spicy, easy, and super healthy!
24 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in Comedy, Funny, Relationship Ridiculousness
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100th post, bald men, balls, blogging, boyfriend, comedy, fights, funny, girlfriend, grabbing balls, gross boys, hand down pants, humor, humorous, joke, love, sarcasm, silly, stupid
Guess what? This is our 100th post! Thank you for sticking with us this long – we’re excited for the next hundred!
To tide you over while we write more dumb things, here’s a glimpse into our glamorous life as a dysfunctional couple.
Lindsay takes pictures of Jay being a grody man. Then she wakes him up, whacks him on the head, and makes him go wash his dang hands.
We love you guys!
L & J
23 Sunday Oct 2011
Posted in Funny, Relationship Ridiculousness
A woman and a man are involved in a car accident.
Both of their cars are totally demolished but amazingly neither of them are hurt.
After they crawl out of their cars, the woman says, “So you’re a man, that’s interesting. I’m a woman. Wow, just look at our cars! There’s nothing left, but fortunately we are unhurt. This must be a sign from God that we should meet and be friends and live together in peace for the rest of our days.”
Flattered, the man replied, “Oh yes, I agree with you completely!”
“This must be a sign from God!” The woman continued, “And look at this, here’s another miracle. My car is completely demolished but this bottle of wine didn’t break. Surely God wants us to drink this wine and celebrate our good fortune.”
Then she hands the bottle to the man. The man nods his head in agreement, opens it and drinks half the bottle and then hands it back to the woman. The woman takes the bottle, immediately puts the cap back on, and hands it back to the man.
The man asks, “Aren’t you having any?”
The woman replies, “No. I think I’ll just wait for the police…”