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If there's one thing that's better than a good chicken recipe it's a good chicken recipe that rhymes.

This is from the Cooking For 2 blog and is called Quick Chick. It combines two of my favorite things: one I eat all the time (chicken) and one I don't enough that often, for obvious reasons (bacon). This is a deceptive recipe: very, very easy to do but it has some clever ingredients to make it seem to slaved over it all day (white wine, chicken broth, a splash of lemon juice just before you serve), cooked in a skillet for about 20 minutes.

I have pretty basic tastes when it comes to hot dogs. Give me a hot dog and a bun and maybe some mustard and I'm good to go. But this recipe from Cooking For 2 seems rather interesting.

They're called Red Dogs, and they're turkey hot dogs that are cooked with currant jelly and Dijon mustard.

Some foods taste great but they don't exactly have names that instill confidence that they'll taste great. Other foods have a name that just makes you want to bite into the letters, and Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins is such a food.

This recipe is from the always fun Cooking For 2 blog. But you can make these muffins even if you find yourself alone on a Friday night (especially if you find yourself alone on a Friday night). Full recipe after the jump!

When I was a kid, up to the age of around 16 or 18, I ate oranges like you wouldn't believe. In the months that the store had good ones (those big, juicy Sunkist oranges with the thick skin), I would probably eat three a day, every day. I figure that I ate so much that I should probably have some sort of super power by now, maybe the ability to fly or maybe create oranges out of thin air to hurl at the villains in my life. But I don't have any super powers, unless you call being good at TV trivia a super power.

Anyway, I never really ate blood oranges. But I love the sound of it: blood oranges. After the jump, a recipe for Blood Orange Chicken from the Cooking For 2 blog.

Is there something wrong with me that I like the weather we're having here today? It's rainy and sleety (if that's a word), raw, and cold, and I just love it. I'll take this weather over a sunny, 85 degree July day any day of the week.

But we do need some things to help us get through these days, and soup is one of those things. Soup is good food and all that (I would put hot chocolate, a blanket, and a good book on that list too). This recipe is from the Cooking For 2 blog, and it's for Roasted Red Tomato Soup. It's pretty easy to make and seems both soothing and hearty.

It's red, so maybe this would be a good Valentine's Day meal for you and yours.