CJ Mox

Summer Avenue Taco Adventures

I've decided to document my visits to the restaurants, food trucks, and gas stations that sell tacos on Summer Avenue. Sometimes there will be pictures, recommendations, and an obscure/unhelpful rating. First up is Elena's Taco Shop #1 (the other location isn't on Summer)

Avery-isms June 2023

We finally took a trip we'd been planning for almost four years. In late 2019, we decided to visit Barcelona and Lisbon for our 10th anniversary and booked flights for May 2020. You can probably guess why that didn't work out. We were leaving the girls

Twitter hopes

Update: I wrote this draft in November, a couple weeks after the deal was done. I never got around to publishing it, so I'm publishing it now and adding commentary on what I wrote in italics (sounds fun to me, will probably be annoying to read). I think

Disc Dyeing!

I got to demo my hobby to my coworkers, because our company is awesome and we do that kind of thing regularly. Check it out if ya wanna.

Recipes

French Toast

The easiest way to make french toast is to slice up that fancy dinner bread you know is a little stale and probably about to start growing stuff. This is one of the first recipes my mom gave me, and I still cook it at least once a month. Then

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Beef: It's maybe what's for dinner

Buying beef can be intimidating, and the choices you make are fraught with politics. It’s hard to even know where to begin. There are so many things about the meat industry that are unfathomably despicable, and gross. Not gross enough for me to consider becoming vegetarian, but gross enough

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Groceries 102

Buying food Last week I hit the first of (probably) several…speed bumps? It was a place in the book where I had loosely outlined what I wanted to write about, but it was nowhere near coherent and probably happened sometime in the middle of the night after several whiskeys.

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Kitchen Prep

Getting your kitchen ready to use by stocking it with a variety of pots, pans, skillets and other tools will greatly increase your enjoyment. Did you have Legos growing up? Just in case you didn’t, let me remind you how Lego sets were packaged. When you got a new

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Getting Started

A whirlwind of opinions and lists and lists of opinions What is it we’re starting, exactly? We’re starting our journey together into food, to make it less complicated. We’ll shop for groceries, prep food, cook it, and, most importantly, shove it into our mouth holes. As a

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Fad Diets and Food Snobbery

If you really like Paleo or Olive Garden I'm sorry, I'm a jerk. The solution, obviously, is to start working on these on Tuesdays then apply the finishing touches on Wednesdays, then schedule them for a reasonable time. Can’t seem to do that, so here

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Unnecessary Context

How I used to eat and how I stumbled into the world of fad diets and food snobbery One day I’ll either write a reusable intro paragraph or give up and write a fresh paragraph of housekeeping notes every week, but for now I’ll start with another housekeeping

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5 Food Things

A list of five areas of your food lyfe you can change, if you want. Before I pick up where I left off, I’d like to start with a little backstage look at the way I imagined converting my first draft of a book into an email newsletter. My

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Better Choices

Eat the giant breakfast burrito...provided the eggs were hand-selected from a chicken that gave express written consent. I ended the last post with “Don’t forget, you can buy and eat whatever you like.” I stand by that, but I want to acknowledge that if you have a food

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Why It Matters

Eating is something everyone has to do multiple times a day.

(Almost) Everything I've Read About Coronavirus

Maybe these links will continue to work for a long time, and maybe one day we'll be far enough away from this awful time to be interested in going back and reading some of the stuff that was written during "the time of Corona".

Listen

When I'm at church, I don't typically sing. I feel more engaged in worship when I listen to the singing instead of singing myself.

Recipes

Rachel's Pork Tenderloin

A simple and savory pork tenderloin recipe for a slow cooker.

Supper Club

Devils on Horseback, Chicken Milanese, and Carrots

If you're hosting a dinner, snag one of these if you need to fill space. But maybe don't cook all three at once.

Inspo

Chuck Roast Inspo

David Chang did an Instagram Live, took some notes.

Bye Facebook. Why Tho

Bye bye bye.

Recipes

Grandaddy Ray's Chili

A straightforward slow cooker chili recipe with lots of opportunities to make it your own.

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Slow Cooker Chicken Spaghetti

One of the first things my mom showed me how to make when I had my first apartment.

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$20 Pasta Dinner

When it's going to be a busy week, I usually cook this for one of our dinners. It takes all of 20 minutes and gets the job done.

Pasta with Asparagus, Prosciutto, Basil Butter

A simple butter sauce with prosciutto and asparagus that takes all of 15 minutes to make.

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Pasta with Pancetta

Simple pasta with yummy, salty pancetta.