On September 26, 2010, I weighted in at 182.8 lbs. A few days ago, on November 18, I weighed in at 162.6. That’s a 20 pound drop in two months. It was done all through diet. Back in late September (the 26th, not coincidentally) I put myself on a low-carb Atkins-style diet. The diet is [...]
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Overcomplicated?
I have two chicken breasts that I’m unsure how I want to prepare. I wandered over to the Epicurious web site. It’s not good. Where do I find ordinary chicken recipes? This is what happens when you design a web site by committee. ALL I’M LOOKING FOR is some regular run-of-the-mill recipes using chicken. I [...]
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This recipe was reverse engineered by a friend’s wife, passed on to me, and then I adapted it to our purposes. The original calls for andouille sausage instead of sweet Italian. There’s not usually much fat rendered from the sweet Italian, so the roux creation doesn’t really happen. Anyway, iit’s hard to screw this one [...]
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