Kevin on August 17th, 2010

Quick Chicken Quesadillas Next time you’re scrambling to come up with a quick yet satisfying casual meal, consider making 5 Minute Quesadillas! Ingredients Flour tortillas Salsa Mexican cheese mix or your favorite cheeses, shredded 1 rotisserie chicken (whatever flavor/seasoning you prefer), breast/thigh/wing meat shredded or sliced thinly Optional:  cilantro Optional:  serve with extra salsa and/or [...]

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If you occasionally bookmark recipes on sites like allrecipes.com, foodnetwork.com, epicurious, and others, you owe it to yourself to take a few minutes to check out Beta site Plummelo. How the site works is simple:  once you’ve created a FREE account and installed a simple widget (doing both takes just seconds), when you find a [...]

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Kevin on April 20th, 2010

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a recipe, and this is one of our all time favorites…  enjoy! First, a confession:  I don’t know where this recipe is from, and as a result, have no idea who to credit. I believe we found this years ago in The Albany (NY) Times Union, but I’m [...]

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Kevin on January 22nd, 2010

I recently posted about our search for a new coffee maker, and thought I’d follow up with a quick post about our current equipment.  If you love coffee, you need to read this. For the best taste and texture, coffee must be brewed at a temperature of between 197°F and 205°F (92 – 96° Celsius), [...]

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This is an update to a popular post from November of 2008; have a wonderful holiday! A few days ago I overheard a couple of coworkers talking about Thanksgiving and was surprised that they were both planning on having ham for dinner. When I asked why they were opting for ham instead of turkey, both [...]

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The number of websites for travelers is staggering and each week I seem to stumble across a site I wasn’t aware of. Here are a few gems maybe you haven’t heard of before; they all offer different takes on getting great bargains…

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