Author: SuzanneJacobetz
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Food is Love
It’s been a long time (long time), shouldn’t have left you (left you), without a dope beat to step to ? (RIP Aaliyah ?) Yeah… I haven’t posted a damn thing on here in FOUR MONTHS. Real life got a leeeetle bit WILD — Mikey got a new job in JERSEY, and since he’s…
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Pesto Primavera
GEORGE: Why do I get pesto? Why do I think I’ll like it? I keep trying to like it, like I have to like it. JERRY: Who said you have to like it? GEORGE: Everybody likes pesto. You walk into a restaurant, that’s all you hear – pesto, pesto, pesto. JERRY: I don’t like pesto.…
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Cheesesteak Stromboli
Cheesesteak Stromboli. Oh. My. GOD!! You’ll think you died and went to heaven. If you love cheesesteaks and/or Italian food and/or any situation that involves meat and cheese, you will fall in love with this insanely delicious, insanely EASY Cheesesteak Stromboli. So post-college, I lived about 45 minutes outside of Philly, in a little town…
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Make Cooking Goals
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Make some cooking goals and TRACK your progress. I’ve found this strategy particularly helpful as a cooking Hater. If you don’t mind going to the gym, you don’t need to think about it much… you just GO. If you HATE going, but paid for that membership, you might…
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Sweet Potato Chili
Every year in April (with the exception of 2015 when I was 8 months preggo), we go on a big family vacation to Hilton Head, South Carolina, or Moochfest, as we have lovingly nicknamed the trip. My parents and a couple of my aunts/uncles/close family friends have timeshares in Hilton Head at the end of…
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Give a Food Gift
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Give Food as a Gift… Especially to me ? 5 reasons why food makes the best gift: 1. Everyone HAS TO eat, and most people LOVE TO eat. If you give a food gift, chances are it will be consumed. If you give a scarf or…
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Perfect Marinara
Well, perfect to me, anyway… So I’m from northeast Jerz. You could pretty much throw a rock in any direction where I grew up and hit a bagel or pizza joint. All of which had better bagels and pizza than the best bagels or pizza you can find in Colorado. Man, I miss good pizza.…
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For Your Wallet’s Sake…
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: If not for any other reason, learn to cook and menu plan for your wallet’s sake. So you hate cooking. But maybe, just maybe, your LOVE of money slightly outweighs your HATE of cooking. Let’s face it – The majority of us are middle class and will STAY…
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Pumpkin Veggie Stoup
Dump all this stuff in a big pot and simmer for 10 minutes. (Almost.) Ingredients 1 small onion (or 1/2 big onion), diced 1 can pumpkin purée 1 can black beans, drained & rinsed 1 can diced tomatoes 1 can coconut milk 2-3 cups vegetable broth (3-4 if you want it less stoupy,…
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Chimichurri
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Ch-Ch-Ch-Chimichurri Man, I wish I knew what the heck Chimichurri WAS 10 years ago (and that you could FREEZE it.) A lot fewer 1/2 bunches of parsley would have ended up in the garbage. I buy dry spices majority of the time, but occasionally I will buy fresh…