Life in a Skillet: food, family, culture

The Perfect Summer Dinner Party Menu

Maggie Daniel Caldwell — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:06:28 +0000

Life in a Skillet was featured in ApartmentGuide's Summer Dinner Party Menu, just as I was thinking about planning a few get-togethers myself.

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Learning to Love a Low Sodium Diet

Maggie Daniel Caldwell — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 23:44:23 +0000

Learning to love a low sodium diet takes some time and work. But you'll find easy ways identify and weed out the high sodium items in your pantry and swap them out for low sodium alternatives.

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“Rollos” are my new favorite family entree

Maggie Daniel Caldwell — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 23:30:20 +0000

This is my newest go-to family dinner recipe that's perfect for using up bits of vegetables or leftovers. This post is Part 1 of 2, recipe for a stuffed tortilla that's grilled and sliced.

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Rolling “rollos” and chimichangas

Maggie Daniel Caldwell — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 23:29:14 +0000

You’ve got your Rollos mixture made; now it’s time to roll them up and cook them. Place one flour tortilla on a cutting board or other clean surface. Put 1/4-1/2 cup of the bean mixture, depending on the size of your tortilla, along one edge. Put a smear of cream cheese on an opposite edge: […]

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Las Vegas foodie treasure hunt: Cosmopolitan’s Secret Pizza

Maggie Daniel Caldwell — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 21:13:52 +0000

Here’s a fun thing to do if you’re staying in the vicinity of Las Vegas’s Cosmopolitan Hotel and are in the mood for a foodie treasure hunt. Look around and see if you can find their Secret Pizza spot. It’s not on any hotel directories, not on their website, not mentioned in any of the […]

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Recipe: Holiday Cranberry-Satsuma Relish

Maggie Daniel Caldwell — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:56:04 +0000

Here's this year's Thanksgiving cranberry sauce recipe. It's sweet and tart, vegan and low glycemic. It's great on turkey sandwiches before AND after the holidays ... it's a keeper!

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Park Station Hashery, San Jose

Maggie Daniel Caldwell — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 22:00:42 +0000

I love that Kid One is still finding fun places to take me out to eat. Here, we revisit the scene of one of my first blog posts and find that the old-school Italian restaurant morphed into a fresh hip take on a diner. It was delicious, as the photos show.

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Feeding the Spirit at Soif

Maggie Daniel Caldwell — Sun, 16 Apr 2017 03:17:26 +0000

I discovered Soif Wine Bar & Merchants at the end of one of Those Weeks. Kid One was too sick to go to school, but well enough to want to make things. Like marble-and-wire wizard rings and dried apple mandrake heads from a wizard how-to book Grandma got him for his last birthday. Kid Two was sick, too, but well enough to rub clay-dough into the rug and blame it on his brother. Errands and chores multiplied at dizzying speed; on top of the usual dry cleaning, shoes needed repair, and the broken washing machine wouldn’t be fixed for a week.

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Riva House Reminiscences

Maggie Daniel Caldwell — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 01:15:18 +0000

Every family needs a dependable, kid-friendly restaurant, one with enough of a variety of menu items to interest the adults and familiar enough for children. Ours was Riva House. Our family Riva House tradition goes back to when LL and I were dating, and we would stop in for spring rolls, clam chowder and a glass of wine at the bar to visit with a friend who worked there.

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Reinventing the Crepe

Maggie Daniel Caldwell — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 22:21:16 +0000

I had lunch at The Crepe Place with a friend who has been doing a great deal of her own cooking lately. She has been busy reinventing the "comfort food" of her childhood into dishes that are, well, healthier. We started with a pot of chai at one of the small tables against the wall in the back room, and she told me about her latest meal reincarnations. Hamburger Helper evolved into turkey sausage with brown rice and peas.

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