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Merry Christmas from EP’s Aching Gut

December 25, 2009
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So the Jewish half of Epic Portions has family in town to Celebrate the Pagan tradition of tree lighting, American tradition of materialistic splurges on gifts, and the very Jewish tradition of good-old-fashioned holiday drinkin’! Oh yeah – and my girlfriend decided to cook her face off – seared sea ...

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Lazyman Tamales

November 24, 2009
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Straight from my favorite food blog in the world, The Food in my Beard, I present to you lazy man tamales.  Any food that can be titled as “lazy man” dish, and looks this good sounds like an excellent idea to me.  If I didn’t have black bean and rice ...

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This Diet May End…

September 21, 2009
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Upon browsing through what may be my new favorite blog, I found what may be the downfall of this diet of mine.  This needs to be made at my household, and unfortunately I may need to invite some meat eaters over to help crush it.  Feast your eyes on the ...

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Bacon Cheeseburger Egg Rolls

July 29, 2009
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If you haven’t been reading Varta’s new blog, there’s probably something wrong with you.  If you’ve seen her posts on here then you’re well aware of her culinary greatness, and she’s displaying it daily with her incredible concoctions.  A perfect example… Bacon cheeseburger eggrolls.  Hoooooooly 8 pound 4 ounce baby ...

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Donut Bread Pudding

July 22, 2009
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I know John’s not the biggest Food Network fan, but Paula Dean and I are soul mates. She fries things, I fry things.   She loves bacon, I buy it in bulk.   She has a southern accent, I can fake a southern accent really well.   However, when she introduced ...

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Varta Strikes Back

July 17, 2009
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After seeing John’s suicide sandwich I found out I have a competitive side which I never knew I had. Gears started turning in my head to come up with the most cholesterol laden, fatty sandwich I could come up with.  I’ve always wanted to make the grilled cheese sandwich burger ...

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Chocolate Banana Ice Cream Cups

July 13, 2009
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edit: this was Varta’s doing, not John.  John could never even imagine making something as delicious as this.  most apologies. Bananas. Like the flavor, hate the fruit, why’d they have to be so mushy? So browsing through World Market on Saturday, where I made a beeline for the food stuff ...

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