By Nick • March 3, 2010
When people ask me about Macheesmo, one of the first questions I get asked is how I don’t weigh approximately 400 pounds. I think I’ll save my philosophy on healthy eating for another post, but generally I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables with the occasional heavier meal.
I try to post delicious and interesting [...]
Posted in Dinner, Easy Stuff, Economical, Gadgetry, healthy, Learning to Cook, soup | Tagged barley, beans, cooking, crock pots, healthy eating, mushrooms, slow cooker, slow cookers, stew, stewed tomatoes, stews, tomatoes, veggie stew
By Nick • November 9, 2009
Betsy loves Tex-Mex. And make no mistake that it ranks pretty highly for me also. So a lot of times something in the Tex-Mex category is my default if I’m looking for a meal. This is a recipe that I make every once in awhile and realized recently that I’ve never posted it. What’s nice [...]
Posted in Dinner, Easy Stuff, Economical, spicy | Tagged beans, cumin, guacamole, rice, rice and beans, spicy, tostados
By Nick • July 22, 2009
Lately, I’ve been getting kind of sick of my lunch options. I usually bring a sandwich to lunch or leftovers and probably once or twice a week I grab a bite at a local spot. My office is right downtown so if I’m going out it usually isn’t a problem to find something yummy and [...]
Posted in Easy Stuff, Economical, Pantry, spicy, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged beans, burritos, guacamole, hot sauce, lunch, peppers, rice, rice and beans, sour cream
By Nick • May 25, 2009
This summer I’m living with an old friend from college, Jeff, while Betsy is doing an internship in Atlanta. I’ve lived with Jeff before and we both love to cook and eat so it should work out just dandy. One thing about Jeff is that he is a vegetarian and I actually like that because [...]
Posted in Easy Stuff, Economical, healthy, salad, Side dishes | Tagged beans, black-eyed peas, dips, garlic, jalepeno, parsley, peppers, salad, vinaigrette
By Nick • May 4, 2009
So Pete and I were planning on posting our awesome battle today, but we had too much fun last night and simply didn’t have time to write the posts. Tomorrow will be the day.
Meanwhile, I thought I would write about a simple little shrimp taco dish I made a week or two ago. I also [...]
Posted in Dinner, Easy Stuff, Fish, healthy, spicy | Tagged arancini, beans, cook yourself thin, fried, fruit salsa, how to make arancini, mangos, pineapple, rice, salsa, shrimp, shrimp tacos, spicy, tacos
By Nick • May 2, 2009
I am the worst at eating breakfast in the morning. I usually wake up between 6:30 and 7 and work on Macheesmo for a few hours before heading to work. Some days I eat an apple. Some days I forget entirely. And yes I know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day!
So [...]
Posted in breakfast, Dinner, Economical, good food | Tagged beans, breakfast, burritos, cheese, Dinner, Economical, rice
