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Recipe: Stir-Fried Rice Noodles with Beef and Spinach

Everyone needs a quick pick-me-up meal for a weeknight.  This is definitely one of those.  The ginger, garlic, and Sriracha sauce brighten up this dish.  The steak and shiitake mushrooms are a wonderful combination.  I bought twice as much meat as needed.  The remaining beef is sitting in my freezer, pre-sliced and waiting for

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Mushroom Omelet

The other day, I bought some Shiitake mushrooms from the downtown Metro Market.  Their 8 foot wall of mushrooms was like a beacon to me and I took the opportunity to grab some very nice looking Shiitakes.  This morning, I looked in the refrigerator and saw those mushrooms.  I could wait no longer and

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Quick Friday Night Risotto

At work yesterday, I was talking with a co-worker about great places in the downtown Milwaukee area to eat.  One of the locations showed a beautiful butternut squash risotto on the landing page of their site.  It looked wonderful and reminded me that I had arborio rice and butternut squash at home.  On the

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Mushroom Risotto

Risotto is a traditional Italian dish that capitalizes on rice and its starch.  The starch is converted into a creamy, delicious sauce that envelopes the rice in a sauce flavored by whatever you can think of.  I made a mushroom risotto tonight for dinner.  Shiitake mushrooms looked good today.  I found some sliced cremini

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