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Roasted Carrots, by Pastor Ryan

We've all heard the myth that eating lots of carrots can give you super-strength eyesight, but did you know that it's mostly true? Low levels of Vitamin A in our diets can cause poor eyesight. Carrots are rich in Vitamin A. Turn up your carrot intake and you just might see the quality of your seeing ability increase. Don't go overboard eating carrots though or your skin could turn orange…I'm serious!

 

 

 

 

This recipe might just have a new record for lack of ingredients needed...

Hump Day Winners!

Here are the winners of yesterday's Hump Day mixer (and cookbook) giveaway:

MIXER:

Winner #1 – #83 Kari in Atlanta (early number this time!)

Winner #2 – #4966 Memoria

Winner #3 – #19799 Mistergee

COOKBOOK WINNERS:

#1202 Brian Heyer

#1543 Sam

#2063 Maria from Madison

#2370 Alyssa Ivy

#3897 Craig

#5603 Kim

#6675 Susan Samson

#7845 Olivia

#8378 Stephanie Nichols

#10847 Darlene

#14724 Hannah

#19956 Jasmine

#21225 Winker

#22167 Missy

#23031 Cosmo's Dad

#26877 Christina Copitzky

#28685 Karen Y.

Hump Day

Happy Wednesday! I'm writing from somewhere in St. Louis, Missouri, where I can see the Arch out of my hotel room window and where my boys are sacked out on a sofa bed, sleeping their lives away. So my hump day, for that very reason, is going very well.

I'm on the Midwestern leg of my Griswold Family Book Trip of '09—Marlboro Man and the boys are with me. It's not our typical week, that's for sure, but it's an incredible experience getting to meet, shake hands, and lock eyes with so many of y...

Creamy Polenta – Heaven on a Plate, Part 2

Making polenta is the easiest thing in the world, and can be a nice complement to many meat dishes. I stirred a secret ingredient into my polenta the other night, and combined with the slow-cooked beef short ribs, it was too yummy for color TV.

(Name that movie.)

First, bring 4 1/2 cups of water to a boil.

 

Grab some yellow cornmeal—a little less than a cup. (I doubled the recipe because I'm always afraid of not having enough food. I think it's because my grandmother endured The...

Braised Short Ribs – Heaven on a Plate

Leesten. And heer me. (West Side Story reference. Sorry. "Leesten. And heer me. You must go and stop eet."

But seriously. Leesten. You must make this as soon as you can. If you've never had beef short ribs before, you're missing out on one of life's great pleasures—and I'm not exaggerating this time. Beef short ribs are like the most flavorful, delectable, tender, soft pot roast you can possibly imagine—but the meat is on a handy stick for your eating convenience. And really, if you make 'em ...

Lazy Chiles Rellenos

This dish ain't fancy.

This dish ain't difficult to make. (Huh. Understatement of the modern era.)

This dish…ain't not delicious.

Okay, I'll stop now. I'm sorry. But I'm fluent in both Hillbilly and Double Negative. They just speak to me sometimes.

My mom used to make a dish like this, which is really nothing at all like the original Chiles Rellenos, but I'm keeping the name intact all the same. It's a versatile, flavorful, and comforting combination of roasted green chiles, cheese, and a c...

Good Ol' Basic Mexican Rice

I serve this rice with my White Chicken Enchiladas and they really are the perfect complement. It's a very basic Mexican rice recipe, and you can customize it with whatever ingredients or spices make you happy—diced jalapenos, chopped black olives, Cotija cheese, tumeric…anything goes!

Let's make it, baby!

And I mean that in the most respectable way.

 

Start with half a large onion (or a whole medium onion…but you probably didn't need me to walk you through that piece of logic.) Dice it...

Pots & Pans – WINNERS!

Here are the winners of the Cuisinart cookware sets. Thank you to everyone who entered their favorite food blogs, TV chefs, and cookbook authors; Statistician Don will have the results of your answers shortly.

Winner 1: #40 Annie. "BOBBIE FLAY. He is the only person on planet earth who I would even consider leaving my husband for, and I think my husband would encourage me to go."

Winner 2: #3264 Danja. "My favorite food blogger of the moment is Clotilde Dusoulier of Chocolate & Zuchini."

Winn...

Pots & Pans!

Now that I'm home for the rest of the week, I'm getting ready to launch into some heavy duty cooking. As soon as the sun peeks over the eastern hills tomorrow morning, I shall chop, mince, sear, boil, saute, sling, fling, and freak out…and make a royal mess in my kitchen. I mean it—the kind of mess you've never even seen before. The kind of mess that inhabits your nightmares.

Then I'll do one of two things:

a) Sell our house

b) Burn it to the ground

Anything but clean it up. It isn't going t...

White Chicken Enchiladas

I'm happy to share my method for making creamy, dreamy, delicious, nutritious, yummy, nummy white chicken enchiladas.

They'll keep you off the streets, I promise you that much. And don't be intimidated by the multiple steps. They're numerous, but they ain't difficult.

The first thing we're going to do is cook some chicken. Please do not be afraid, my darlings. There's nothing inherently scary about raw chicken. I hate to be gross, but…you and I are raw, too, if you really hunker down and...