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    Thai Chicken Burgers with Peanut Sauce and Pickled Veggies (and an Awesome Salad to Make with the Leftovers!)

    Sometimes the reaction when I announce dinner plans isn’t too enthusiastic. “Ok” or even “That sounds good” are nothing compaired to the “Yesssssssss!” or “Mmmmmm” I often get when making some of the household favorites. So let me just say it’s difficult to overstate how big of a hit these Thai-inspired chicken burgers [...]

    Baked Sweet Potatoes with Mushrooms and Grilled Corn

    Matt loves sweet potatoes. In college when we’d go to the local diner for a greasy meal of burgers and fries, he’d special-order their sweet potato fries that come with a zesty mustard dipping sauce. And if, on the rare occasion, I declare that I’m not cooking dinner and he’s on his own, his solution [...]

    Giant Burritos with All the Fixins!

    There are two parts to this story.
    1. I don’t generally love chain restaurants. Sure, I am the occasional patron, but you’d be hard-pressed to find me frequenting the fast food or family-style restaurants that crowd every town’s restaurant landscape. But as with everything, there is one (huge) exception. Chipotle. Oh, how I miss Chipotle. In [...]

    Caramelized Onion Polenta with Sausage and Cauliflower Ragu

    I used to think it was strange that I read cookbooks feverishly as though they were page-turning novels. Now I know it is – but the amazing world of food magazines and online recipes have deepened my love for the written food word. And no matter how crazy it is, I can’t help [...]

    Off to Europe!

    It may have seemed to you regular visitors of The Apartment Kitchen that I have just submitted a barrage of posts.  Well, you are correct.  I have posted everything I’ve made recently all at once in the hopes that it will satisfy everyone’s cravings while I am on my 2 1/2 week trip across Eastern [...]