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One-Pot Chicken With Artichoke Hearts

January 15, 2015

I first discovered a version of this meal about six months after I started blogging, when a reader sent me a Giada recipe for a dish called "Chicken Vesuvio" (as an aside, the photos I took of the dish are terrible...but also kind of cool examples of something I realized very early on that I had to work on). Over time that recipe evolved into the dish you see here, which is one of our all-time family favorites. Even when I think, "ehhh, not in the mood for chicken"…I am always in the mood for this. It's that good.

Oh - and this is an important part: it uses chicken thighs, which are apparently a thing that nobody wants to buy, because they are hella cheap. So cheap that I just said "hella." (They're also hella good.)

Chicken With Artichoke Hearts (serves 3-4)

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Diet Do-Over

January 12, 2015

You know how every once in a while you’ll see an article in a celeb magazine where some TV or movie star is asked to describe their eating habits in one word?

Well, my word would be “careless.”

It’s not that I don’t give a lot of thought to food – I love cooking, and take a lot of pride in pulling together nice dinners for my family – but when it comes to my own eating habits? Nutrition falls so low on my priority list that it’s practically off the radar entirely. I eat what I feel like eating when I feel like eating it, and if that means chocolate-chip cookies for breakfast or a massive steak for dinner or skipping lunch entirely because I’m just not hungry, that’s generally what I do. Dinners aside, my eating habits over the course of the day rarely follow anything that could be considered a “schedule,” and the amount of thought I give to creating a balanced diet for myself is zero.

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Thrifted Footstool: Before And After

January 2, 2015

I told you I legit couldn't stop crafting.

I think it's because I've decided that I don't care whether the end result is especially spectacular. I mean, it's nice if what comes out of an hour or two spent in the company of a paintbrush and some bad reality TV is a beautiful addition to my home, but far more important is having a little fun with it. Because if it's not fun…what's the point? If you just chill out a little bit about the end product and let your freak flag fly, what crafting ends up being is free therapy, and ain't nothing better than that.

OK, so check out this footstool/bench thing that I found at a thrift store on the Saw Mill. Now, that is an ugly piece of furniture. Pukey color, tattered (albeit glittery) seat fabric, et cetera et cetera. But I was really into those curved arms and had a sneaking suspicion that with a little TLC it could be really beautiful, so home with me it came.

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