Category: Recipes

Life Lessons and Evil Quinoa—My Messy Beautiful Life

I have a complicated relationship with my son’s food. It started with not being able to breastfeed.  It was upsetting, but amazing site like Fearless Formula Feeder helped me come to grips with it.  My kid was fed, that’s the important part.  Then Tater had infant acid reflux, which led to MANY different formulas being

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Eatin’ Pants: Carol’s Creamed Chicken and Biscuits

When I was about nine, my neighbors got stationed in Japan and rented out their house, as military families often do.  I was devastated, as their little boy and girl were like my siblings and taught me how to scream, “MOM!!  They are touching my stuff,” with all the righteous indignation of an older sister.  (Seriously. 

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Foodie Penpals with The Lean Green Bean

   In a fit of ambition in January, I signed up for Foodie Penpals, hosted by The Lean Green Bean.  It’s a penpal exchange program where you are matched with someone and based on a few questions, some blog-stalking and your own creativity, you send each other goody num-nums with a limit of $15. Now,

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Cookin’ with Carol: Guyanese Pepperpot

As I may have mentioned, my dad is from Guyana and my mom is a white lady from New York.  This makes me not only makes me mixed, but also a first generation American on my dad’s side.  It also makes me always in possession of something to say when you have to go around

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Cookin’ with Carol: Coronary Chai Spice Apple Cake

The thing about heart disease is that, like most diseases, it doesn’t happen to the just the patient, but the whole family.  In order to develop healthy habits, everyone has to pitch in for it to work.  How fair is it for someone to have to cut out sugar, salt and fats if your wife

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Cooking with Carol: Bypass Orange Blueberry Bread

After the car ride from hell after Dad’s quintuple bypass, my parents and I made it home and proceeded to make Dad dinner.  The man will eat just about anything, so it wasn’t an issue of taste.  The problem was that while he was in the hospital, a side effect of his surgery is that

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New Feature! Cooking with Carol: Recipes for Captain HeartAttack

Weird title, eh?  Don’t worry, all will be explained.  Eventually.  But first, some background. So I have a dad.  We call him the Tyrant.  We are not being ironic. He’s a tough dad, as dad’s go.  He’s not much taller than me and has a Guyanese accent that my mom and I don’t hear, but

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Eatin’ Pants: Dulce De Leche Brownies

Sometimes, you need chocolate. And I’m not talking about wussy Hershey’s chocolate, or some crappy box brownies. I’m talking deep dark chocolate, fudgy and decadent, with ribbons of creamy gooey dulce de leche swirled throughout. These are not everyday brownies.  These are special occasion brownies, the kind that you make for birthdays and baby showers

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Eatin’ Pants: Skillet Chicken Pot Pie

Being that I’m lactose intolerant and my husband has the food preferences of a five-year-old, it can be a battle to eat in my house.  Add on to that trying to eat healthy and I’m completely tempted to throw in the towel and eat Subway for the rest of our lives. We do on occasion

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Eatin’ Pants: Baked French Toast

Sarah came into town this weekend and it was fabulous!  Hours of talking, shopping, REAL margarita-making, fried chicken eating and silly TV watching.  Not only did we view the Tony’s and talk theatre, I also introduced her to Toddlers and Tiaras.  And this horror. And, proof that she’s a nice person, Maggie ADORED her.  The

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