It’s cold.  When it’s cold, I like to eat hearty things, like chili.  I mentioned this a few weeks ago when I first shared that I had made deer chili and was eating it with oyster crackers.  Yesterday, I pulled a bowl of chili from the freezer to eat.  It’s cold.  I need warming.  [...]

  Last week, I ate the same thing nearly everyday for lunch: a modified version of Cajun Chicken Pasta.  The recipe was modified because I didn’t have one of the key ingredients to making the sauce for the dish: cream.  It was the evening time after work.  The recipe is quick to make…if you have [...]

If you don’t like the thought of a dish with wild game, don’t even want to see it, or have aversions to eating deer, please skip this post. I’ll totally understand. However, if you don’t mind any of the above, please read on. This is hands down one of the best bowls of chili I’ve [...]

It’s back to basics for me with this bento. I’m not about to go into a long drawn out discussion of my life and bento. Because that’s not what I mean about “back to basics.” Time is limited at the moment. I don’t have alot of it to spend trying new recipes, new foods, and [...]

Monday night, I wanted to enjoy my cous cous dish again, but didn’t want to eat more black bean burgers for dinner. I had them at lunch. While great and tasty, a whole week of black bean burgers and Spanish style cous cous seemed daunting. I decided to make spinach quesadillas for dinner. I only [...]

This was dinner Sunday night: a slightly failed attempt at black bean burgers with a superb attempt at a “spanish rice” recipe with sour cream, guacamole, and a bit of shredded cheese. I can’t tell you how pleased I was overall with this dinner. I’ve been searching for some Mexican flared dishes since that is [...]