Author Archives: chrisandcamri

Bear Down Chicago Bears!

I’m actually a Steelers fan. Camri, on the other hand, grew up in Northwest Indiana (a suburb of Chicago), and is a big Bears fan, which pretty much means I’m a Bears fan too. We’ve watched every game this year. I even got to go to a game back in December. I cooked eggs, bacon …

January 25, 2007 – 8:37 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (0)

The Cane Sugar Diet

Camri and I aren’t big pop drinkers. It’s actually good that we aren’t, as pop is the single worst thing on earth for your gut. It has all the calories of a beer, without the taste. High fructose corn syrup is the crack cocaine of sugars, corn syrup is refined and manipulated to produce a …

January 12, 2007 – 3:51 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Drink | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

How to Make Poultry Stock

Buying stock off of the shelves is easy, inexpensive, and a quick way to get a good soup going. Like most cooking though, it’s always better if you do it yourself. Not only for the taste, but for the honor of saying, “I made this.” Like a lot of cooking, stock is one of those …

January 4, 2007 – 3:48 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Christmas Oranges?

Camri’s Dad sent us some oranges and tangerines from sunny Florida this week. Oranges for Christmas is one of these traditions you see thrown around a lot, so I wanted to look into how it started, but I can’t find anything. Giving oranges on Christmas seems like a tradition that should have some documentation around …

December 21, 2006 – 3:46 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Sourdough Cliffhanger!

We’re phoning it in a bit today, as we’re both busy at work, and the holiday season is taking up most of our weekends and evenings. However, we wanted to give a quick update on the sourdough experiment from last week. The bread turned out great, but wasn’t very sour at all. I improvised a …

December 14, 2006 – 3:28 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Sourdough!

We’re trying to bake something new every weekend, for the most part we’ve kept our promise to ourselves. We’ve tried a handful of variations on the no knead bread recipe from the New York Times, some whole wheat buttermilk biscuits, and a cookie or two. This week, we’re trying something we haven’t in the past …

December 7, 2006 – 3:26 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Thanksgiving Bounce Back

We’re totally stuffed with turkey and mashed potatoes. We had multiple days of leftovers, three kinds of pie, and lots of fun with my Mom, Dad, and Sister out in Arizona. So now comes the recovery time, back to eating relatively healthy foods. It’s an uphill battle, as Christmas is looming around the corner. We …

November 30, 2006 – 2:50 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Here’s hoping you and yours have a great time, may your birds be juicy and your potatoes buttery. There’s a ton of good Turkey recipes out there in the world, so we wanted to drop a quick leftover idea instead. In the words of Johnny Cash, “Momma turns the leftovers into hash, we’re doing alright, …

November 22, 2006 – 3:24 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Pot Bread

Last week, the New York Times made a bold claim. It had nothing to do with Iraq, the election, or our rights slowly being chipped away at by our hateful government, it was about bread. Specifically, it was about one New York baker’s claim that the traditional 12 steps of baking can do with one …

November 16, 2006 – 3:06 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

The Traditional Thanksgiving Gantt Chart

Thanksgiving is only two weeks away, like us, you’re probably starting to pick out a good Turkey recipe, decide side dishes, and pick out pies. That stuff is a lot of fun. We hosted our first ever Thanksgiving dinner last year. As we were planning for it, we decided we wanted to eat around three. …

November 9, 2006 – 2:45 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged | Comments (0)