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Broke: Chili dogs
Woke: Chana masala dogs

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Two hot dogs covered with cheddar cheese and chana masala- a chickpea curry.
August 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Thought we had a regular brisket in the freezer; turns out it was a corned beef. Oh, darn- extra St. Patrick’s Day supper! Life sure am hard.
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A dish of corned beef and cabbage with potatoes, carrots, celery and onions.
March 1, 2024 at 12:55 AM
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If your spoon won’t stand up in it, is it even soup, bro?
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A bowl of leftover turkey and tortellini soup with garden-fresh mustard greens. Like always, it started with a picked-over turkey carcass thrown into the slow cooker with some celery tops, chopped onion, garlic, a dried Tabasco pepper, and some poultry seasoning and Italian herbs. Cooked on low all day. When I got home I strained out all the chunks and sorted them. Bones and most of the skin get tossed, cartilage and some of the skin get swallowed hot- good for my joints and scars- and all the shreds of meat and bits of softened veg go back into the soup and get hit with the immersion blender until it’s all pretty smooth. Then I grab a stock pot and throw in whatever leftover turkey meat we have- usually breast, because we eat the dark meat by preference- chopped into bite size chunks, accompanied by chopped onion and garlic, more seasoning and red pepper flakes. That sat in the fridge overnight. This morning I pulled the pot and set it on the stove, slowly coming up to a boil. Added chopped mustard greens (kale or spinach work well, too) and a quart of stock. Once the mustard started to get soft I added a bag of tortellini and went to set the table to stop myself from staring at the pot until it was ready.
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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My poor Bride has been freezing her buns off for days, so tonight she asked me to make hot and sour soup for supper. It was, I think, the best batch I’ve ever made. Then, because today was #NationalCheeseAppreciationDay we split a toasted cheddar and chèvre sandwich for dessert. #CookingIsMyTherapy
January 21, 2024 at 5:19 AM
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My Bride mixed up a dough for akari, a traditional West African blackeyed pea fritter we’ve made for decades now. But this time she mixed in some ground beef. I’m the one who inherited the frying gene, so I was the one who got to make these awesome salads for supper! #CookingIsMyTherapy
January 9, 2024 at 11:59 PM
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Homemade chili and cornbread. And if you’re one of those people who don’t believe in putting beans into chili, you can just suffer in silence. 😘
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A beautiful skillet full of delicious cornbread. But not for long… 🤤 Cornbread, chili, and a little bit of cheese, all jumbled up together.
September 1, 2023 at 12:07 AM
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Well, if all else fails, maybe I can get a job at our favourite Thai restaurant as the guy who makes hearts out of rice portions. AI can’t do that yet.

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A heart made of freshly cooked brown rice. Like a cartoon heart, not a real heart, which would be hard to model in rice, and which many people would not find appetizing, though I’m sure I don’t know why. The same heart, but now it’s smothered in roasted sesame chicken with onions and a side of Bombay Potatoes.
August 28, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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I’m making a half-batch of watermelon rind chutney. Why half? Because I’m such a little piggy that I ate approximately 4 cups of rind WHILE I WAS CUTTING UP THE MELON. And then like 2 cups of melon while making the chutney… 😳
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A saucepan containing vinegar, water, sugar, and spices, just coming to a boil. A bowl containing about 2.5 cups of shredded watermelon rind. Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble! Gas stove burn and chutney bubble!
August 31, 2023 at 2:15 AM
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saltinethemoneymaker05 When you got skills in the kitchen. Chipotle Southwest Chorizo Tacos with Spanish Rice

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November 27, 2024 at 3:03 AM