Tina's Chic Corner

Black Beans, Sausage And Rice

January 29th, 2016Tina0 Comments

I had every intention of making a beans and rice meal and then I realized that beans and rice, while tasty as a side dish, may not keep my husband satisfied. He will, after all, be the one eating it over and over again as the main course. Add another ingredient to the dish, like sausage, and we may have something here. Seriously, my husband and I have tried a variety of “beans and rice” meals and they are all boring. Good, but boring. I had some turkey sausage in the freezer so I threw it in and it totally …

Stuff I’m Into

January 27th, 2016Tina2 Comments

This week was not a shining week for me in the kitchen. I had plenty of time being snowed in and I thought that I’d have loads of recipes to share with you. Nope. Here’s the scoop… Zucchini noodles are fun to make but they’re trickier to cook than I thought. If I cook them too much they are slimy and if I don’t cook them enough they are too weirdly al dente to try to pass off as pasta. I took a few pics of the dish anyway and it did not look appetizing… like at all. I’ll keep …

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Energy Bars

January 25th, 2016Tina0 Comments

There are labels for food and labels for people that eat certain foods. I’m not sure I like labels much. I have been fascinated with vegan food lately, but as I’ve told you before I don’t have any intention of becoming a vegan. Even not being a vegan, I found that I actually felt a little guilty the other day when I had a cheese and egg sandwich. That’s sort of weird. I felt like I was cheating by eating non-vegan food. That got me thinking about all of the various food labels and got me wondering how I would label …

Vegetable Stir Fry

January 20th, 2016Tina4 Comments

I’m going old school on you. I had this meal for dinner almost every night when I was in law school. It started one random night when I needed to go grocery shopping but I was too lazy to go. (Sound familiar?) So I grabbed whatever I had in the fridge and threw it into a stir fry. It seems just like yesterday that my parents would open my fridge in shock and would wonder if I ate at all. Trust me, I ate. Not only did I find this meal tasty (which is probably obvious since I said I …

Spaghetti Squash Tex Mex Bowls

January 18th, 2016Tina0 Comments

Have you ever used squash as a bowl? This is the first time that I served a meal in the squash “shell” and I’m obsessed. That means that I have two less dishes to wash so that makes me happy. It’s the little things that get ya happy, right? Like just earlier today I tried avocado toast for the first time. Of course I had to document it on social media because if I didn’t then it might not have ever happened. Why has it taken me so long to try that? I’ve seen it forever and I’ve been totally missing …