upcoming shows

  • On Brand – 13 July 25

    🍽️: Mon – Goi Tom (Vietnamese shrimp salad.) (I will actually write about this vacation eventually, I swear.) Tues – easy pork tenderloin with a stupid good Frankensauce (courtesy of sauce king Hampton) and Warm Green Bean Salad with Crispy Potatoes, kalamatas, and feta Wed – Arayes (Middle Eastern Meat Stuffed Pitas) with cucumber salad…

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  • 🍽️: Mon – Hampton was away a few days so I got to putz around on my own. Used up a bag of frozen scallops and some frozen mango for a take on skewers from this list, plus a salad made of charred corn and sugar snap peas, avocado, pickled peppers, and leftover rice. Tues…

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  • Late this time for the best of reasons — new rehearsals! (scroll down for details 🤗) 🍴: Mon – SautĂ©ed Chicken Ă  la Ronsard. Pretty sure I’ve never made a sauce that was strained? So easy/fancy/French brasserie at home. Tues – SCM bavette with pan-roasted duck fat potatoes and attempt at these feta-bakes brussels. As…

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  • Time flies when you’re having Sunday night fun. And then on Monday, when Hampton’s car dies in the middle of the street on the way to his 6 a.m. shift. On a holiday. In the rain. 🍴: Mon – We tested out TJ’s new line of steaks. And realized how spoiled we are by Smoke…

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  • On Brand – 2 Mar 25

    🍴: Mon – because I anticipated having a rehearsal conflict on Saturday for intermediate ballet, I popped into tonight’s beginner 2 class, so Hampton took care of dinner and did a lentil/merguez/feta shenanigans much like we did a few weeks ago and I was so ready to eat after an hour of strength training before…

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  • Ann of La Mancha

    Ann of La Mancha

    tl;dr — my non-legit self got a part with the opera. There is the cover photo, so if that is enough for you, here is the ticket link. If you’re bored or my mother — and even you know the basics, Ma, so feel free to skim — pull up a chair. As… I thought…

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  • Moving on

    So, yeah, this summer… that was a thing. Hampton and I both ended the spring with some killer shows and then it was all, well, life as usual. Snuggly puppies, tv, and lots of other people’s recipes. I may be in the midst of books 99 and 100 of the year, but there have been…

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  • Week 11, 2022

    Sorry if you’re getting an email about this post twice. Don’t WordPress after midnight, kids. Welp, between tech for RAGTIME and Hampton going back into rehearsals for his COVID- and ice-delayed show, dinners this week were much more on the “get it done” side. EXCEPT: octopus. I had almost definitely never tried octopus before Hampton…

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  • Mawwige is What Bwings Us Togethah Today

    …three days, actually! The Phoenix Theatre Co. is bringing back I Now Pronounce You Dead for three special Vday performances. We start off at our original home away from home, the Pittsboro Roadhouse & General Store on Thursday, February 13. Tickets here. For Valentine’s Day itself, we are back to Summerfield Farms. A gorgeous wedding venue…

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  • The More Things Change…

    The More Things Change…

    One of our regular Phoenix Theatre Co. castmates (and half of #jessip) has written his first full-length play, and we’re performing it this weekend at the Greensboro Fringe Festival. President Elect imagines what it would have been like on Election Night ’92 — 1892, that is — if today’s news industry existed then, as Grover…

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