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Fun facts about Chewbacca: 1) He's 200 years old when we first meet him in A New Hope ; 2) He'll live to be 400 years old, so he knew he was going to out-live Han Solo when he adopted the guy; 3) I'm pretty sure he'd adopt Leia and keep her as his cub if he had half a chance; 4) He's awesome and his actor, Peter Mayhew, is one of the most understated and loveable celebrities on the planet. This dish has literally nothing to do with him, otherwise, save that ... um. Yeah, nope, nothing to do with him. Doesn't matter. It's a great recipe, and you're a laser-brain if you don't give it a go. #nailedit Laugh It Up Fuzzball Sweet Potato Chili   Ingredients 1 tbsp olive oil 2 medium yellow onions, diced 2 tbsp chili powder 2 tsp cumin 1 tsp black pepper (I never measure, honestly) 4-10 shakes cayenne pepper (I don't measure this, either) 2 cups frozen diced green peppers (use fresh if you have that much free time on your hands) 4 1/2 ...

You know how there are some nights where you're just like "f*ck everything, I don't want to cook," but the very thought  of ordering out makes you writhe with unbearable guilt? Yeah, that was today. In my defense , I had to drive today. Like, for over an hour and a half, total. And I had to talk to people. People who aren't students. And that stresses me out . Ordering pizza stresses me out, too, so I decided to not do that. Instead, I looked at this recipe  sideways for a couple of minutes, then came downstairs (I'd been upstairs looking at imgur and buzzfeed and trying not to order pizza while also avoiding having a bath because driving is scary and Castle Overlord is safe) and made a bastard version that tasted really, really good and had the side-benefit of being really good for us. That's just the best. And I get to bike tomorrow. That's even better. Greens 'n Beans 'n Eggs 'n Toast Ingredients 1 small yellow onion (or half a...

I love potato soup. When I was on study abroad and charged with creating a dish for our big Thanksgiving potluck, I made potato soup. When I started dating my partner, potato soup was one of the first things I cooked for him. Hell, it was one of the only things I knew how to make when I moved out on my own. It's a staple. BUT, it's also kind of ... not all that healthy. Or substantial. Which didn't matter until I started biking everywhere, but man, when you're a cyclist, you really can't eat stuff like potato soup that burns up fast and leaves you hungry when you have 10+ miles left to go. I found this recipe  while searching for meatless recipes. Tried it out today. Fell madly in love. My version is a little bit healthier but a little bit lengthier, a little bit cheaper but ... yeah, a little bit lengthier. And by "a little bit" I mean "like 3 hours longer." Whatever. Totally worth it. Not Potato Soup   Ingredients 1 lb navy beans, w...

Beans are one of my favorite foods. Yes, they make me the bad roommate, but that only matters if the other guy living here isn't being the bad roommate at the same time, which he is because he eats whatever I cook, so we mostly sit around and giggle immaturely while the cat runs and hides in the furthest corner of the house. This soup was the product of an impulse buy and a lazy weekend in early January, and it's so tasty that it'll probably be a staple  here from now on. Throw it together in a few minutes, leave it stewing in the crockpot all day, come home to a hot meal. Can't beat that! WARNING: This is NOT a quick meal. The beans soak for a full day, then the soup crockpots for like 8 hours. Plan ahead if you're going to cook this! Fifteen Reasons to Eat Crockpot Bean Soup Ingredients 1 lb 15-bean soup bag o' beans. Yes, this is a thing. 1 tbsp olive oil 1 onion, coarse-diced 1 tbsp diced garlic (or three garlic cloves) 1 bundle (around ...

All right, let's be honest about quinoa: it's that weird, grainy thing that only weirdos who skulk around Whole Foods like to eat. It smells weird when you rinse it, like a pissed-off ladybug. It probably writes  emo poetry when you're not looking. I drop my voice on the T when I talk about cooking quinoa because I don't want strangers in Cambridge to think I'm that guy . That's right: quinoa is weird enough that I don't want citizens of the People's Republic of Cambridge to know I eat it sometimes . I'm therefore appropriately embarrassed to post my take on  this recipe , but damn everything to Dorchester it's tasty and needs to be shared. It needs to be shared . It can be made vegan  but that's another word I don't use except with great derision, so just swap the chicken broth for vegetable broth and, uh, probably don't serve it with a side of steak. Which is a thing. That we did. And it was delicious . EDIT: Top this with a...

I am not a vegetarian. I have no intention to become vegetarian. The word "vegan" makes me crave fried chicken. I like meat and I lobby for fair treatment of both animals and the workers who process animals for food because, damnit, meat tastes nice. That said, this dish is vegetarian. Vegan, if you skip the delicious cheese, sour cream, and cornbread (which you really, really shouldn't). I found the recipe online here and made it for the simple reason that I was hungry and had all of the ingredients on hand to make it. Well. I had half the ingredients, as in half of the listed requirements for the ingredients, so I made a half-batch. That gave us enough food for four meals, total, so a full batch would make eight meals, almost enough for a week's worth of lunches. That, in my opinion, is downright swank. Plus, it doesn't really call for anything that spoils readily, save for the sour cream (cheese lasts longer than sour cream) so it's the kind of meal t...