WRITTEN ON Monday, January 23rd, 2012 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Avocado, Beans, Beef, Chocolate, Dinner, Mexican, Soups, The Big Game, Tomatoes
ShareAnyone who knows me knows that I am a purple-bleeding, jersey wearing, never-miss-a-game-watching, die hard Ravens fan. But it wasn’t always thus. Growing up, Baltimore was a town without a team. Sure, we had the Orioles, but we were a football town at heart, and in the fall we had nothing but the Redskins and […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, February 28th, 2011 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Beef, Dinner, No really, what IS for lunch?
ShareActors of a certain age often moan about how ageist Hollywood is. The lack of respect for older actors, for the craft itself, and how the opportunities dwindle post-40. I’ve always been a bit wary of that argument. Look, Meryl never seems to have a problem landing a role. Tom Hanks can pretty much write […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Beef, Dinner
ShareGuess what happens when you go away for two weeks and leave your already neglected and overgrown property to fend for itself? It gets even more neglected and overgrown. Oh, and it hates you when you get home. The previous owners of our house had moved on two years before we bought it. During that […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, March 12th, 2010 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Beef, Cheese, Dinner, Holiday, Italian, Pork
ShareMy father is not a cook. Let’s get this straight right away. He is a great many wonderful things, but as far as cooking goes, it’s toast and delivery pizza (and the toast thing is extremely rare, though he’s been doing pretty well on the grill, of late). My mother buys pre-cut Cracker Barrel cheese […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, February 8th, 2010 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Beef, Dinner
ShareThis past weekend my hometown received their second major dumping of the wintry white stuff. They got almost 30 inches in some spots. Trees were down, power was out. People were stranded in their homes with nothing to do but eat, drink and play Monopoly. I was so jealous. We were supposed to get a […]