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Breakfast Grilled Cheese

July 21, 2015 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

....that you can, like, totally, so literally eat for any meal of the day.

Jay really loves it when people say so and literally all the time. See also: the reality show that featured the company I work for.

But let's not talk about how kids these days are turning the country into crap. They probably aren't, we're just probably old. Probably.

I made this sandwich because it was mid-day and we hadn't eaten and I'm all into breakfast food right now and CHEESE, and then Jay ate it as fast as I've ever seen him eat anything and then he said it was amazing and delicious BUT THEN 4 hours later we went to the movies and I got popcorn and at the counter I said "are you going to eat any?" because I order more if he's going to eat some, duh, and then he said "I don't know, that breakfast was just so fatty and there was nothing healthy on it," kind of while making a shitty face, and I got offended because pregnancy hormones and told him he didn't have to eat it and then he ate half my popcorn anyway.

#marriage #thatwasonesentence
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Moroccan Spiced Steak + Chimichurri + Yogurt Sauce

July 16, 2015 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

We've talked before about how I can't spell Moroccan to save my life, right? Two r's every single time and I just can't remember the right way to save my effing life.

Anyway. It is what it is.

Here's dinner! There's a lot going on here, but you can honestly make this dinner in less than an hour depending on how quickly you can get rice to cook. The components of the meal are really simple and all together are just GOOD. So, you should make them.

That's all.

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Two Weeks From Today

July 15, 2015 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

So, we're on the countdown to July 29, which is a big day.

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Pregnancy Recap Weeks 13-18

July 14, 2015 by Lindsay 6 Comments

So, today we turn 18 weeks, this little cranberry and I. Or it does? Or we do together? I have no clue.

The beginning of trimester 2 marked telling the world about bebe, which of course opened the world's eyes to how much fun it is to give advice!

Now, I'm fully aware of how great it is to give advice, I do it for a living. What I was unprepared for is how much FREE advice I have been getting. Just for being pregnant! What a gift. I'm being silly, but in general I mean it. There are a few types of advice I don't love, however: The "oh just wait until you're a parent," kind that comes from, wait for it, usually people who don't have children. That makes me feel like an 8 year old in that I want to HOLLER to leave me the eff alone. Then there are some current parents that use that kind of "advice," and some of that has been pretty condescending and negative, but there is also the teensy matter of my hormones that makes me extra sensitive all the time.

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Roasted Garlic Summer Squash Soup

July 13, 2015 by Lindsay 6 Comments

So, when I was little my grandparents lived in Charlotte, NC, about 90 miles away from here. They owned what felt like a massive amount of land, and grew food. Lots of food.

I don't think you could call their place a farm, really, but there were orchards - peaches and apples, and fields - corn, cantaloupe, cucumbers, blueberries, and probably tons of other produce that I don't have any memory of. My grandfather worked in sales during the day and in the yard at night and on weekends. The man grew shit, and was good at it.

Fast forward 20 years, they've now moved two more times for Grandaddy's job and landed at a retirement home (he's over 70 and I think has only been officially retired for a few months) in the mountains a few hours away from here. It's a golf course community with big lots, but nothing like the Charlotte house. However, the owner of the land hasn't changed a bit, so every year my grandparents grow more and more food even though there are only two of them.

So. They bring it to us. By the actual trash bag (happened last year with mustard greens, took my mom and I 4 hours to wash and braise them all). We get tons of food from them every year, and because Jay and I are only two people also, we have to come up with creative ways to cook or process the food quickly so that it doesn't go to waste.

Hence, soup! Squash soup is wonderful this time of year, as is any kind of soup, really, when you have tons of one kind of veg. Cook, add spices, puree, boom. Meals for days that will keep longer than raw produce.

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