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A Quick and Easy Giada recipe

Quick and easy with Giada – that sounds wrong right?? You know whats wrong about her (at least to me) is the amount of chest she shows on her show! Geez Louise lady! Because I share that particular body part situation, I am allowed to stand on this soapbox! It was all cool in college and my younger 20’s but now, not cool! And now I will step off of my soapbox… So I needed to make a dish I could eat for lunch and dinner for a couple of days and remembered I had some pretty pasta in the pantry. (whoa whoa alliteration). I went searching on deb’s site as I usually do and found this recipe!

It was quick and easy and tasted real good – everything you could ever ask for in a recipe, right?? And somehow eating this for a couple of meals last week helped me to lose 3 pounds! How does pasta do that??? Maybe it was the lack of processed sugar and baked goods in my diet…. Yeah.  Go see some more pictures…

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Frederick Restaurant Week 2011 at Cacique

Happy St Patrick’s Day Friends!!! (And happy 100,000 hits to me!!) I know this post clearly has nothing to do with being Irish, etc… So let me try to make that connection… Based on my love for Guinness and the fact that my aunt Martha said I looked very much like girls in Ireland when she went there like 10 years ago and the fact that my dad is adopted, I truly think I have Irish heritage. The other part of my heritage is Mexican, so because that, this post totally makes sense (as long as we are speaking about my heritage!)

When I heard there was a restaurant week coming up in Frederick, I went searching high and low on the restaurant list. It turns out I have been to nine on the list! So I remembered that Jenn, my roomate, really loves Cacique and I had not been there before, so there we went! The food was much better than I expected… maybe it was the cheesy sign that turned me off before?? Who knows, but once again I am reminded to not judge a book by its cover.

I am so glad I had such lovely dinner dates – Jenn, Michelle and Laura! They were totally gracious about me picking the table (this one had really good light) and letting me snap their food before they chowed down! I love the Dorsch family!! So now go check out the awesome food shots I got, probably one of the best for a restaurant at night.

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Krazy bout Kale Lasagna

Here we go again with an awesome vegetarian meal!! (See the previous ones made here and here.) So the tradition has become that Bethany, Laurita, Kelly and I get together once a month (or two) and cook a vegetarian meal and then go hit the local watering hole (whether it be Hamilton or Frederick)! Bethany is a vegetarian and I am so thankful she is, because it makes me search high and low for a good inventive dish. And this dish we found hit the spot! My cousin Jen had forwarded me these cool dried pineapple flowers as a bridal shower idea and it’s blog, Annie’s Eats, sparked my foodie blog interest! So when I started to think about searching for a vegetarian dish, I went there! And this Spicy Kale Lasagna was so easy and SO GOOD, I am uber thankful I found it.

Each of us brought ingredients and we whipped this together in about an hour and 15 minutes! The kale is really what did it for us, it was so meaty, it went perfectly with the rest of the soft lasagna ingredients. And it also had cottage cheese in the recipe instead of ricotta and we couldn’t even tell! Go for the jump to see more pictures…

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