Scrumptious Food, Lightened Up
What meal do you associate with home-cookin'? For me, it's pot roast. Juicy, tender, and slow-cooked, a pot roast requires preparation and patience, but the end result is perfection. When I began cooking, I had always been intimidated of making a pot roast – the danger of drying out the meat, the lengthy cook-time – but when …
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Let me start off by apologizing for my absence over the last two weeks. I’ve had a LOT on my plate, but in a really positive way – that’s another story that I will share sometime. But I’ve really slacked considering we’re in Round 3 of the tourney and I am just now posting. So …
Growing up, family vacations consisted of a lot of historical sites. I've seen quite a few battlefields and Presidents' gravesites in my day. That's what you get when your father is a historian. My brother and I were not always thrilled – we longed to visit Disney World or a water park instead of spending our …
Lots of college hoops this weekend. Today, the #5 ranked Kansas Jayhawks will host the #3 Missouri Tigers at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas at 4:00 pm ET. The last time these two bitter rivals met, the Tigers defeated the ‘Hawks at home in a close match-up with a questionable late-game foul that possibly altered …
This week's installment comes early since I wanted to highlight a particular rivalry game. As a native of the Sunflower State, I just had to blog about the "Big Monday" match-up, University of Kansas at Kansas State. The Kansas Jayhawks, whose national ranking was upgraded to No. 5 today, need to beat the Wildcats to continue their …
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I like it spicy! My food, of course. So it should come as no surprise that I love jalapenos. I love 'em on pizza, with salad, atop a burger or diced into my scrambled eggs. And a jalapeno filled with cream cheese? Why, that's right up my alley. Up until a few years ago, I …
Sports provide us a reason for gathering, for placing bets, for eating and drinking, for cheering or swearing, but most importantly to me, for community. And no other sporting event in America better illustrates this notion than the Super Bowl. Friends and family congregate on Super Bowl Sunday, throwing parties that often have little to …
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