Dan on April 5th, 2009

We don’t make a secret out of the fact that we love to, well, experiment with food.  And the nice thing about having some time off from work is that we’ve been able to experiment even more than usual.
When we visited Frank, Kathy, and Chelsea in Baton Rouge, we went to a very high-end sushi [...]

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Dan on April 1st, 2009

It seems no matter how old you get, everyone enjoys pizza.  Katie and I are no exceptions.  We love to make our own pizzas and come up with interesting flavor combinations.
Here’s the one we made for lunch.

We’ve seen this on Food Network. Luckily it didn’t hit the ceiling (or the floor)!

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Katie on March 30th, 2009

We sure are having fun cooking Asian style.  The 2 most exciting aspects of our Asian dishes so far — they are inexpensive and they are delicious!  Tonight’s dinner consisted of fried spring rolls (complete with sweet and sour sauce made from scratch) and egg drop soup.  Had we closed our eyes and eaten, we [...]

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Dan on March 29th, 2009

It seems we must be on an Asian kick.
Tonight we thought we’d use up some of the stuff from the fridge and decided to try some “Orange Chicken” from a recipe on AllRecipes.com  — but we added some additional ingredients since we had them.
It turned out really nicely — and we decided it would rival [...]

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Dan on March 28th, 2009

We’ll take a minute to borrow an idea from our friends Abbie and Ben who post pictures of all of the mouth-watering food they make.
When we were in San Antonio, Nancy taught us how to make “Summer Rolls” — which are made with rice paper and lots of green vegetables.  It’s like a salad in [...]

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