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Fried Fish Sandwiches: Cooking Through Cravings

October 19, 2016

I just celebrated my 27th birthday, I know I’m getting old. To celebrate we made some delicious fried fish sandwiches. Usually around my birthday I start dropping hints to my friends and family on what gift I would like. One of those gifts was Chrissy Teigen’s cookbook, Cravings. I woke up on the morning of my birthday only to be graced with Cravings from Brian. I flipped throw the cookbook that morning…

October 19, 2016 By Fatima

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Mediterranean Meatball Gyros

October 12, 2016

These Mediterranean meatball gyros were our first gyros, ever! Yes, you read that correctly. The very first gyro I had was one I made myself. However, these are meatball gyros made with beef. As my coworker pointed out, a gyro is the meat that’s cooked and used in this dish. The dictionary gives me, “is a Greek dish made of meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie, normally pork, chicken, beef, veal, lamb or…

October 12, 2016 By Brian

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Our Six Favorite Slow Cooker Recipes

September 23, 2016

Fall has arrived! Well, this warm weather doesn’t feel like it’s arrived, BUT today is the first FULL DAY of Fall! So we put together our favorite slow cooker recipes. Did anyone feel a slight chill yesterday around 10:21am? Our Crock Pot is one of our favorite kitchen appliances. The amount of chili and beef stew could feed all of Manhattan. When the weather gets cooler, sometimes you just want to…

September 23, 2016 By Brian

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Ms. Jackson’s Sloppy Joes

September 7, 2016

I love going home to visit my mother. Although I do feel like I gain 5 pounds every time I visit, especially when eating her sloppy joes. I’m consistently being feed and asked, “Are you hungry?” even after I just ate. I never met someone who loved feeding people more than my mother, and that’s where I get my love of hosting and feeding people. I learned how to cook…

September 7, 2016 By Fatima

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Baked Sweet Potato Fries

August 31, 2016

We’ve tried to make sweet potato fries for what seems like forever. Whether we fried or baked sweet potato fries, we couldn’t find the right seasoning, temperature, or recipe that worked in our flavor! They were either undercooked, burnt, or too salty. But how are there so many recipes out there and we can’t make it work? Maybe it’s…us? It’s been such an adventure, like my hush puppies. Fatima and I…

August 31, 2016 By Brian

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Southern Fried Fish Tacos

July 20, 2016

We’ve been on a taco spree lately! We’re not sure if we’re just craving Mexican dishes or if we’re making all of these tacos to pair with the different margaritas we’ve mixed up lately. Anywho, we loved these Southern fried fish tacos and can’t wait to make them again. Our neighborhood seafood market had a great selection of Atlantic Cod filets. On its own, cod is a bland fish. Well, pretty much all…

July 20, 2016 By Fatima

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Hawaiian BBQ Fried Chicken Tacos

June 15, 2016

A few weeks ago, my cousin Lisa and her Grammy Award-winning fiancé, Peter, flew into Connecticut from Hawaii to do some wedding planning before the big day! We’re so excited to head out to Hawaii next year! Part of their trip included celebrating Nana’s ’92+2′ birthday and coming down to NYC to visit me at work! Not that they completely inspired this dish, but we were looking for a way to dress up…

June 15, 2016 By Brian

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A Steak and Cheese Sandwich

June 1, 2016

Not sure what draws me to a steak and cheese. Maybe it’s the steak layered with peppers, mushrooms, and tossed in cheese? Whatever I like about it, if I see steak and cheese on a menu at a restaurant, I will order it – unless it’s a Mexican restaurant, then all of my chips go towards the fajitas. My two favorite places for a great steak and cheese are The District…

June 1, 2016 By Brian

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Using Leftover Buttermilk on a Million Recipes

May 18, 2016

Well, maybe not a million… For Cinco de Mayo, I made these absolutely delicious margarita cupcakes with Silver Patrón tequila. These cupcakes required buttermilk. But buttermilk doesn’t come in small containers (at least at the grocery store I go to), so we had to get a large container. We couldn’t let the rest of it go to waste, so we spent a whole day making things with the leftover buttermilk; pancakes,…

May 18, 2016 By Brian

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12 Homemade Takeout Meals

April 6, 2016

Make your own ‘takeout’ at home with these takeout-inspired dishes! While we love a good Seamless night/weekend, sometimes we just want to make some homemade takeout. Your dinner is available to eat when you want to make it, the food is customized to your liking, and you can make a fun night out of cooking with your family and friends. Pizza, Asian cuisine, and even fried Oreos! Everybody loves a little street food.…

April 6, 2016 By Brian

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Homemade Shrimp and Turkey Dumplings

April 5, 2016

Let me tell you about one of my best friends, Christine. We met during our time as staff accountants and found out we were pretty much the same person. Christine shares my love of both food and cooking and she shared her homemade shrimp and turkey dumplings recipe with us! It’s never a surprise that when we find an amazing recipe we cannot help to share it with one another. I…

April 5, 2016 By Fatima

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Beef and Broccoli

April 4, 2016

Move aside Chinese food restaurant, I got a new recipe to replace one of my favorite take out dishes. After a long busy season and many seamless orders I was so over eating out. On my first weekend not working, I decided to start cooking again. I was craving beef and broccoli recipe and I decided to make it myself. Brian and I just moved into our new apartment and…

April 4, 2016 By Fatima

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Vegetarian Sweet Potato Hash with Fresh Avocado

March 29, 2016

Our friend Ashley made a delicious sweet potato hash for our “First Day of Fall” party a few months ago. It was delicious. When thinking about what we were going to make for Brunch this past Easter weekend, we had a leftover sweet potato from our sweet potato mash and tilapia dinner the other night. Using Ashley’s dish as a guide, we put our twist on this and made vegetarian sweet potato hash. Hash can…

March 29, 2016 By Brian

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Garlic Parmesan Baked Tilapia

March 16, 2016

A lot of garlic will go a long way. It’s great to hear positive immediate feedback on your cooking. And not just from your family, but from random people. While I was making this garlic parmesan baked tilapia dish for dinner the other night, I heard many of our neighbors walking by our door saying, “That smells delicious!” One of our neighbors shouted a few floors down, “Hello, that smells…

March 16, 2016 By Brian

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Sweet Potato Mash

March 15, 2016

There’s nothing like having sweet potato mash in the fall. Almost like having sweet potato pie with your turkey. But why wait until then? Last week, we made baked tilapia with sides of broccoli and sweet potato mash. It was delicious. One large sweet potato will yield 3-4 servings. If you love sweet potatoes and anticipate a heavy handed spoonful, use 2 sweet potatoes. The warm undertones of the cinnamon,…

March 15, 2016 By Brian

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Homemade Mashed Potato Bowl

February 15, 2016

Growing up, we rarely went out to fast food restaurants. My parents made a point to make sure we were eating a homemade meal at the dinner table every night. It wasn’t until college where I really delved into the fast food world. Chipotle and Popeye’s were within walking distance of our campus – very dangerous. Fatima, then opened my eyes up to KFC and their mashed potato bowl. While…

February 15, 2016 By Brian

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