Tag: recipes
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Making Sushi
Out of the blue one afternoon on gchat Javier tells me that he wants to try to make sushi. I’m telling you, 100% of the projects we feature on here start with Javier getting a whim to do something, looking up videos on youtube on how to do it, and then going through with it. […]
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Making Sun Dried Tomatoes
Our cherry tomato plant is by far the most prolific in our garden. Every day we harvest at least a cup of cherry tomatoes and with only one tomato eater at home we needed to figure something out so those little guys wouldn’t go to waste. We thought about canning but we wouldn’t eat them…Leslie […]
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“Home Made” Pizza
We love going grocery shopping at Trader Joes. We dont live close to it (we wish there was more than 1 in Nashville) but we still take our weekly trip to the store. One of the reasons we like shopping there is that from time to time they surprise us with an idea for a […]
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Sangria & a bachelorette
Two weeks ago the weekend started off with my good friend Ellen’s bachelorette party. For the party prep, I picked up a huge order of rice, beans, meat and tortillas from La Hacienda, one of our favorite Mexican restaurants in town. We decided that the best choice for drink to go with the food would […]
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A few healthy meal ideas! / Recetas saludables!
Our diet has changed drastically since February 13 when we decided to follow the P90X nutrition plan in addition to doing the workouts. It’s hard to believe that we were posting about eating nachos and pigs in a blanket only a few weeks prior to making changes. For me, the hardest part of the program […]
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food, recipes and more food!
Our house has turned into our very own pasteleria (bakery)! Cora baked 13 loaves of her Christmas bread (pan de pascua) and it smells heavenly, I threw together some no-bake chocolate oatmeal cookies (thanks to Diane’s recipe) and Meri made a huge pot of cola de mono (monkey tail), a Chilean holiday drink that tastes […]
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Cazuela! – Chilean Food
Cazuela is a typical Chilean dish that is the perfect meal on a cold day. It’s a chicken soup, but it’s so much more than that. Javier first made cazuela for me when we were dating in 2008. He was trying to introduce me to different Chilean foods, but in America it’s hard to find […]
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