Category Archives: dinner

Lobster Au Gratin with Rotini Noodles

By Jon | Published April 12, 2011

 This is my take on Lobster Au Gratin, the base is there, and then I modified it a bit to my liking making it a lot more creamy and richer.  This meal turned out amazing, and I will definitely be making this again when I feel like furthering my goal of giving myself a dairy [...]

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Crab Cakes

By Jon | Published December 5, 2010

Walking through Costco today I noticed a new product in the deli/cheese section and decided on a whim that I would make some crab cakes tonight.  It was a container of lump crab meat, lots of good chunks and claw meat, and apparently on the side all wide caught.  With crab in tow I headed [...]

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Seattle Day 5 – Beechers Handmade Cheese, The Smith Tower and Pearl

By Jon | Published April 15, 2010

The Smith Tower, Seattle, Beechers, Bellvue, Renton, USA

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Seattle Day 3 – Seattle Aquarium, Naps, Tavolata and Juju

By Jon | Published April 8, 2010

Well after last nights epic drink fest with Heidi, the day started off slow.  Dave got up around 9 and wandered over to Top Pot to work on his blog, sip coffee, eat giant donuts, sight the fake Gary Busey, and allow me to sleep in.  He makes a good vacation wife!  After convincing Dave [...]

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Seattle Day 2 – Sci-Fi Museum, Ivar’s and Von’s Roasthouse

By Jon | Published April 7, 2010

Today started out as a lazy day, Dave and I slept in, and slept in well.  After finally dragging our asses out of bed and figuring out what we would do for the day, we decided that we needed to start out the day at Top Pot Donuts, just a block over from our hotel.  [...]

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Seattle Day 1 – Tasty Tasty Dinner!

By Jon | Published April 5, 2010

Well Dave and I have arrived in Seattle for our week of eating, drinking and general merriment, and after getting checked into our hotel room decided we were starving so ventured out into the world of Seattle to find some dinner.  We wandered around in the drizzle for a little bit and eventually stumbled across [...]

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Chicken Pot Pie

By Jon | Published March 14, 2010

Saturday I decided to make chicken pot pie from scratch. This was once again my first proverbial kick at the cat, but I think all in all it turned out very well. Next time I want to add a little sherry to the mix for some more flavour. I was watching Chef At Home earlier [...]

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Ramsay Inspired Shepherds Pie

By Jon | Published February 14, 2010

I made this a little earlier in the week for Amy and I, it was quick, flavourful and tasted just as good the next day as it did the day it was made.  From beginning to end this really only took about 1 hour to throw together and cook.  Shepherds pie was one of those [...]

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Curry in a Hurry!

By Jon | Published January 18, 2010

My new Le Creuset Tagine and French Oven finally arrived today to work.  Ever anxious to use one of them right away, and starving for something tasty, yet somewhat quick I decided to take the Tagine for a whirl with a simple curry!  Unfortunately I didn’t take any pictures of dinner tonight.  I lied I [...]

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Boring Pork Chops? I think not!

By Jon | Published January 10, 2010

A couple of weeks ago we had Kyle over for dinner and were going to have pork chops.  Problem with that is I don’t really like pork chops.  Not in their normal grilled type meal.  I enjoy bacon, ham, pork roasts, so really there should be no reason for me to dislike a pork chop.  [...]

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