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Aunt J’s Pickled Red Onions

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You know what’s great about being unemployed post-college?  

Let me start over.  You know what’s great for me about one of my sisters being unemployed?  (she’s like, omg please stop)

The food and the babysitting, tbh.  And the hanging out! 


My youngest sister Julianne (Aunt J to those of us not really doing three syllables yet) graduated from college a few weeks ago and is heavily in the throes of interviewing and applying to jobs.  She’s had some offers, is contemplating her life, and I’m thinking in about five seconds she’s going to move somewhere epic and leave us in the sticks forever.  

So in the meantime, I’m soaking up all the time with her I can get.  She’s also in the process of moving out of her apartment, which means when she finds massive onions and has nothing to cook with them she pickles them and brings them to me!  Which is what happened here. I’m a huge fan of pickled onions and love that they’ve been coming more and more in restaurants, on sandwiches and tacos especially.  Julianne’s pickles this time were particularly good, so I asked her how she made them.  I have them featured as condiments in a few upcoming recipes for the blog, and I knew you’d be dying to know how the onions came to be in my fridge.  (you’re like, omg please stop)

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Pickled Jalapenos

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I’ve told you guys about my grandfather, right?img_0475

The one that’s alive.  This isn’t that kind of a post.  Anyway.  My grandfather!  My mom’s dad.  He’s the most salt of the earth dude you can ever imagine.  Fishes.  Hunts (used to). Drives my grandmother everywhere they go because thats.what.you.do. Definitely used to have one of those singing fish on the wall, and I’m not entirely sure it was ironic.  Wears a lot of plaid.  You get it.  He also is a master gardener which results in massive stockpiles of produce coming to us each year, something you’ll never hear me complain about.  …

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Easy BBQ Shrimp Tacos + Honey Mustard Apple Slaw

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Ok so this was clearly Jay’s idea.  IMG_9384

Anyone who knows 1. us, 2. Jay, and 3. Jay’s food history knows that he a. grew up husky (ha) and b. loves barbecue sauce.  Like, loves it.  I like it fine, but I always go for a mustardy or vinegary sauce.  Jay, on the other hand, likes the ketchup/molasses-based stuff, preferably out of a jar.  

Ew.  To me, it’s way too sweet, and after a bite or two of anything with that kind of sauce on it I’m all…..WHERE IS ANY OTHER KIND OF FOOD GOOD LORD UGH.  It’s really one of the few foods that I just can’t get into in large quantities.  


But!  There are other ways.  Ways to make a red sauce that’s sweet but also tangy and smoky, super quick without simmering it all day OR buying a jar of something.  And then you put it on tacos with crunchy vinegar slaw which TOTALLY makes up for the ketchup brown sugar base, and you have a taco.  

A great taco.  

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Buffalo Tofu + Celery Relish

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For all those times when your husband randomly goes vegetarian, it’s important to have some recipes that taste like football but not dead animal carcass.  IMG_3696

Don’t get me started on the irony of not eating meat while watching football.  

Anyway.  I made tofu and made it taste like buffalo.  AND THEN I made a sweet and salty relish for topping BECAUSE I get that celery and buffalo flavors just really go well together but also I kind of don’t like raw celery?  Pickled, though, and I’m in.  …


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Mexican Dip Trio {cinco de mayo}

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It’s the weekend, Monday is a holiday, the sun is SHINING, the birds are CHIRPING….

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Ok maybe not really all of that, but definitely the Friday and holiday thing, because Cinco de Mayo is DEFINITELY  holiday.  The fact that it occurs on a Monday is just cruel and unusual, so I vote that we start celebrating tonight.  


I have a batch of this chicken all up IN the crock pot right now and it’s smelling amazing, and you might want to get on that too. 

If you’re more the “I’ll bring chips” kind, though, I’ve got the THANG for you.  A trio of dips, made with mostly the same ingredients and all three can be done in way less than an hour if you don’t get distracted and start watching TV.  No?  Just me?  Whatever.  

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