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Chile Corn Chowder

Maris Callahan — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:00:00 +0000

There are two things that I really believe in: six degrees of separation and self-fulfilling prophecies. Six degrees of separation is pretty simple. My college best friend Sarah’s now-boyfriend Mike went to college with my high school best friend Jen. All three of them live in different states. We only know it because Jen saw that Mike was a mutual Facebook friend and put two and two together. There’s one example and that’s even fewer than six degrees. With social networking, I think it’s amazing how small this world is and how many common friends and acquaintances most of us actually have. As far as the self-fulfilling prophecy, well, that’s a little bit more complicated. I have a bad habit of looking at the metaphorical “glass half-empty” instead of the “glass half-full.” When things are going well for me, such as when I’ve moved to a new city that I love with a great job, some fabulous new friends and an apartment that has a lot of potential…as soon as I can afford to decorate it, I’ll focus on the one thing that isn’t going swimmingly in my life and fixate. And if by chance, I wake up one day […]

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Black Bean Stew with Corn, Tomatoes and Green Chiles

Maris Callahan — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Did you know that you can make soup or stew in under an hour? Well, you can. You can make black bean stew with corn, chiles, tomatoes and more delicious spices in about thirty minutes (longer if you want to let the flavors bubble together for more time). It’s amazing. Stew is one of the easiest meals you can make, because all you do is throw everything in a pot or slow-cooker and you pretty much just leave it there. I made this on a Sunday, my favorite time of the week to make a pot of something that I can pop on the stove and forget about. Well, I didn’t forget about it, but it also didn’t require constant attention. The problem with most stew is that it usually has to cook for a minimum of a few hours. It, quite literally, stews. Sometimes though, and definitely in this instance, you can just open a few cans, chop an onion, season and fifteen minutes later … dinner. Well, if you want to get technical, there are a lot of steps in this recipe. The Steps One: Make stew. Two: Change into sweatpants. Three: Pour yourself a glass of wine and start […]

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