Turkey Sweet Potato Chili

December 3rd, 2013 | Posted by Alison Spath in Dinner Time - (2 Comments)

Maybe you’re turkey-ed out, or maybe Thanksgiving insanity threw off any sort of meal plan you had going and you ended up eating turkey four days in a row due to poor planning/holiday recovery. The pumpkin pie made me do it.

I’ve been making turkey marinara with spaghetti squash like it’s going out of style.  It’s easy and it’s good, and for these reasons I’ve been throwing a pound of ground turkey and a spaghetti squash into my shopping cart each week knowing it’s a (relatively) fast, go-to meal we enjoy.  Read more...

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Taco Salad

March 21st, 2013 | Posted by Alison Spath in Vegetable Lovin' - (1 Comments)

I made beef chili this morning.  It smelled so good that I decided to throw together an impromptu taco salad for breakfast.

Yes, taco salad for breakfast.  Stop looking at me like that.  You don’t have to eat this for breakfast if non-standard breakfast foods aren’t your thing.  We can still be friends.

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I made chili with grass-fed ground beef, carrots, onions and that leftover jar of Garlic Roasted Garlic sauce in my fridge from Naan pizza night.  Piled this morning on to a bed of mixed greens, some shredded colby jack cheese and avocado with a few tortilla chips on the side.  It’s likely (OK, a certainty) that a few more tortilla chips were snagged from the bag before I put it away.  Read more...

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A Chili Morning (for a Not-So-Chilly Kitchen)

January 28th, 2013 | Posted by Alison Spath in Morning Craziness - (7 Comments)

It’s cold here.  (Like, really cold.)

It’s so cold that it’s possible some mornings I turn the oven on before I even turn the coffee maker on.

Just kidding.  (Let’s not get ridiculous.)

But it’s true that it’s cold, and it’s also true that cooking in the morning is a great way to warm up my chilly kitchen.

Chilly kitchen.  Chilly morning.  (Can see where I’m going with this?)  Read more...

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Best Laid Plans

November 14th, 2011 | Posted by Alison Spath in Dinner Time - (2 Comments)

Today, I had a plan.

That plan was to make dinner early, so that when we got home from an outing with friends late this afternoon, dinner would be mostly ready. All that would be left to do would be to make some guac to top it all off.

And that plan worked. For the most part.

I did indeed make Sweet Potato and Black Bean Chili with quinoa this morning before setting off on the day’s adventure.  Read more...

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Black Bean and Butternut Squash Chili

October 11th, 2011 | Posted by Alison Spath in Dinner Time - (2 Comments)

Life is settling back into a post-marathon norm around here. I spent much of today getting caught up on all things food and laundry now that I’m hobbling around a little bit less and taking the stairs slightly faster than yesterday.

Or at the very least I’m not doing the “step up with my right leg, drag my left leg up behind me like a sack of potatoes” thing anyway.

Dinner got started this morning when I threw this guy from last week’s CSA share into the oven – not immediately sure what I was going to do with him.  Read more...

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You Better Stomp Around

August 31st, 2011 | Posted by Alison Spath in Dinner Time - (Comments Off on You Better Stomp Around)

I need to start digging through the blog archives more often.  I don’t know why I complain about not being able to come up with dinner ideas in advance.  It’s like owning a closet full of perfectly fine clothes and then stomping around and saying “I don’t have A THING to wear!”

Except I’ve got a website full of meal ideas and I stomp around saying “I don’t have ANY IDEA what to make!”

Time to stop stomping and start clicking, lady.  Read more...

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Spicy Red Lentil Chili and CSA’s: Totally Related

February 19th, 2011 | Posted by Alison Spath in Healthy Habits - (10 Comments)

CSA = Community Supported Agriculture.  (Not “Can’t Stand Alison”, thankyouverymuch.)

If this acronym is new to you, in short – a CSA is an opportunity for you, the consumer, to get your produce direct from a local farmer.  Find a farm that offers CSA memberships and you can buy a share of their crops for what will hopefully be a bounty of locally grown fruit and/or vegetables from late spring until mid fall – or whatever the growing season is where you live.  Read more...

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Lentil Chili

June 1st, 2009 | Posted by Alison in Dinner Time - (6 Comments)

For lunch today I threw together some refried beans quesadillas.  Spicy refried beans smeared into a flat out wrap, sliced tomatoes, corn and a little bit of white cheddar cheese. I also made some kale chips to use up the last of my bag of kale and for a little green on the side.

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Served 2% Fage, salsa and avocado slices.

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And for dinner tonight, Lentil Chili was on the menu.  Read more...

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