This is a recipe I found in the Rachael Ray Magazine. It is an excellent way to eat fish, especially if you are a picky fish eater. The cook time for the fish is dead-on if you use tilapia fillets. I am always either over cooking or under cooking my fish, but this came out perfect! [...]
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Last weekend Brian and I cooked up a great dinner for some of our great friends. The feast was delicious and so was the company. We had a great time chatting, watching Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, rocking out to The Beatles: Rockband (thanks Frank and Lynn!), and tackling Drunken Jenga. The Feast: Appetizer: Pomegranate [...]
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Last weekend Courtney and I headed back to Chicago for a fun filled weekend of eating, drinking, and general touristy stuff. Originally we were going to watch Matt run in the Chicago marathon, but Matt got a stress fracture so we had no choice but to turn the weekend into something even more relaxing and [...]
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On Saturday we headed up to Chicago to see the last Nine Inch Nails concert we will ever see (supposedly Trent is never going on tour again as NIN, we’ll see about that). We left at 6:30 A.M. so that we would be able to make to Aragon Ballroom in time to stand in line [...]
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We enjoyed beautiful weather while camping at Watkins Mill, a Missouri State Park near Kearney, MO (about 30 minutes north of our house), this past weekend. We had made reservations on-line earlier in the week, and we were glad we did because a majority, if not all, of the electric sites were full. There were [...]
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TV sucks right now. I’ve been real busy and I have still managed to watch everything on my DVR … what do you do when that happens, watch live TV? Update: I opted for the radio. Monkey now lifts his leg to pee on occasion- I am sooo proud. We’re going camping this weekend, I [...]
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Last weekend my brother came into town from New York City. Sometimes you just need to get away. It was a pretty relaxing time, with a Royals game as the big event of the weekend. My dad bought us all amazing seats that were about five rows above the dugout behind first base. It gave [...]
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Two weekends ago we offered to smoke pork for our friend Jessica’s 40th birthday party. They had invited around 40 people to their party so we decided to smoke two 8 pound pork butts. This time we brined the pork starting on Wednesday night before the party. The brine was simply kosher salt and water. [...]
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We had originally planned to camp at Smithville for the Fourth of July, because it is so close to us, but when I drove up there early Thursday morning all 777 electric campsites were filled. I couldn’t believe it! Oh, and you can’t reserve sights ahead of time, so all of those people drove out [...]
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Brian and I bought a pop-up camper- and it has air conditioning! We took it out on it’s maiden voyage this last weekend and had an absolute blast. Some people say that using a camper isn’t camping, but in Brian’s words, “we found something to make the crappy parts of camping better”. No more sweating [...]
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