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INGREDIENTS: 6 oz of spaghetti 1 tablespoon lime juice 1 tablespoon fresh ginger or 1 teaspoon ground ginger 1 tablespoon fresh garlic or 1/2 teaspoon dried garlic 1 teaspoon red chili/pepper flakes 1 and 1/2 cups sliced chicken 1 red bell pepper sliced/chopped 3 green onions (scallions) chopped 1/2 inch 1/4 cup cilantro Lime wedges [...]

Despite my fondness for things noodly, I can’t enjoy pasta very often: Carbs settle on my hips, and my mood suffers if I eat too much of the stuff. This is frustrating, because pasta is not only inexpensive and easy to prepare, but its “portionability” is perfect for folks like me who are cooking for [...]

Cheesy and Creamy, So, So, So Good…  When my kids were growing up I never seemed to know how many to make dinner for. There were always a couple of extra “hollow-legs-syndromed” teens about. This was my salvation dinner.

 So, you’re a blogger. Or you work at home in some other way. Does that mean you have to eat the traditional nerd’s meal of caffeine and whatever munchy food is close by? Hardly. There’s nothing more reassuring on a busy day than knowing that a good dinner is cooking itself while you’re busy with [...]

Last week I lamented the fact that many so-called “five minute” recipes. . . aren’t:  They may take five minutes to cook or to prepare, but they almost never are only five minutes from prep to table. So now I’ve been searching for the elusive “three-ingredient-recipe”: Trouble is, while many so-named recipes have three “main” [...]

I like noodle bars, and in the Chicago area we have plenty of them. So many, in fact, that competition is fierce, and a bad noodle bar won’t stay open for long.