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An Update on the 2017 Culinary Expedition: Where We’ve Traveled this Fall

World Cuisines

You may have been wondering how the culinary journey has been going, or whether we’re even still on it. The answer is slowly, and yes. We’ve been doing an awful lot of real travel, and when we’re here I’ve been trying to keep it light and healthy to make up...

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A Taste of Portugal

Way back in January, I saw $300 non-stop tickets to Lisbon over Thanksgiving and jumped on them. It didn’t take much convincing to get Dad and Kippy to join us. It seemed like a lifetime away at the time, but before I knew it we were boarding a plane for...

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Popeye’s Buttermilk Biscuit & Sausage Stuffing

Cooking Time: 2 hours

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We all have one item that we’d be totally heartbroken to find missing from the thanksgiving table. Mine is stuffing. One year we even had a turkeyless Thanksgiving – no mashed potatoes, no gravy, no pie… but you better believe there was stuffing on that table. I’ve made fig and...

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Angola: Muamba de Galinha

Cooking Time: 90 minutes

Africa

Angola

Moamba de Galinha is Portuguese for Chicken in Muamba sauce. No, I’m not practicing for my upcoming trip – Portuguese is the official language of Angola (Angola was a Portuguese colony until 1975). The cuisine of Angola has also been significantly influenced from Portuguese imports. However this particular dish has...

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Monday morning meet-up: a half smoke half marathon, a cooking marathon, and a whole lot of onesie time

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Thursday I finally hit the wall, and I hit it hard. Since we got back from our second trip in as many weeks, I’ve had something just about every single day. Mom’s awards dinner, Black Lives Matter comedy show, hosting 50 people in my home for Friendsgiving, African American History...

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Ironman 70.3 Austin Race Recap

Well, we did it, y’all! We cleared every hurdle the universe threw our way (and there were a lot of them!) and finished our first Ironman 70.3. This made us realize just how many things have to align to get to the finish line, and I won’t lie: it felt damn good...

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Germany: Kaese Spätzle

Cooking Time: 30 + 30 for the dough to sit

Europe

Germany

I have somewhat predictably been saving my German recipe for Oktoberfest, which has long since come and gone. In fact, most of the festival – which is definitely on my bucket list – actually takes place in September. While I wasn’t able to make it to Munich this year, the...

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New Orleans IM 70.3 (No) Race Weekend Recap

So, this wasn’t the race recap I was hoping to write. In fact, I can’t really call it a race recap because there wasn’t a race to recap. But we’ll get to that. I’ll give you a weekend recap instead, because a weekend we had. First off, travel triathlons are...

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Ukraine: Varenyky

Cooking Time: 90 minutes

Europe

Ukraine

I’ll start this one with a little fun fact: I never went to my own high school prom, but I’ve been to prom in the Ukraine! The summer after I graduated from high school, I convinced my parents to let me spend two weeks in the Ukraine visiting my best...

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Monday Morning Training Report: The Taper (Holy SH*T it’s RACE WEEK!)

Burning off the Bacon

HOLY.COW. It’s race week, guys. I have so many feelings. Mostly terrified. Okay, maybe that’s dramatic. But I’m pretty dang nervous. We’ve worked really hard for this, and let’s be real: the prospect of failure is scary That’s what race nerves ultimately come down to. I’m also feel a super overwhelmed...

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