Brussels Sprouts Salad with Cranberries and Goat Cheese

Cooking for One or Two, Recipes, Worknight Dinners

For those of you who live in warm climates or whose “winter” consisted of three snowflakes and three days that dipped below fifty degrees: please stop reading now. Oh, I’m just kidding. Keep reading. In December I asked my building manager to shut off my heat because it was too warm in my apartment and this winter, I’ve only closed my windows when I go out of town. Yet, this is the time of year, the end of March, on…

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Kalamata Olive Marinara Sauce

Cooking for a Crowd, Recipes, Worknight Dinners

One of the fun things about my generation is that with Facebook and our good friend Google, it’s not hard to stay in touch with friends, family and even obscure high school classmates. With a few clicks, you can see who has gotten married, who has had children and who is engaged to another classmate that they weren’t even friends with during school. …

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Monkey Bars (Chocolate Chip Pecan Banana Bread)

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If you look, at any given time on my kitchen counter, you’ll find bananas. And if you’re lucky, you’ll find chocolate chip pecan banana bread. Bananas are a shopping list staple for this single girl. Even more so now that I have this recipe, now dubbed as ‘monkey bars’ in my repertoire.…

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Homemade Soft Pretzels

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Whenever I don’t have immediate plans to eat in a restaurant, I am usually daydreaming about the great places I want to try: a BYOB that I read about in Grub Street Chicago, a great vegetarian place a friend told me about, a cute wine bar that I pass on my way from the bus stop to work.…

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