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Over at men’s lifestyle blog, Kineda, author Tami Ng shares Jennifer Lopez’s lunch secret. She brown bags it! J. Lo has her own easy enchilada recipe for when you’re on the run. With all due respect and props to Tami and Jennifer, here’s the recipe:

Jennifer Lopez’ Easy Chicken Enchilada Recipe

Ingredients:

• A whole wheat tortilla
• Mixing bowl (preferably microwave safe)

For the filling:

• 4 oz cooked shredded chicken breast
• 1/4 cup light sour cream
• 2 tbsp shredded lowfat Chipotle cheese
• 1/4 cup pico de gallo
• 1/8 cup enchilada sauce

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I came back from my camping trip with some fresh-but-badly-bruised bananas. Those bruised bananas were perfect candidates for banana bread.

I had some leftover sour cream in the refrigerator, and happened upon a banana bread recipe in Allrecipes.com (my favorite recipe site for realistic, quick, and easy recipes.)

The bread turned out perfectly moist (not raw or undercooked near the bottom part of the cake) and was loved by all.

With all due credit and respect to whoever Cathy is who submitted this, here goes.

Cathy’s Banana Bread

INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup mashed bananas

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I bought some cilantro for use with Chinese cooking. (Cilantro comes from the Coriander plant. The same plant is thus sometimes called coriander, or Chinese parsley.)

The herb is very strong, so I had about 80% of the bunch left and didn’t know how else to use it. Gina suggested that I make a pesto sauce with it. “But wait, isn’t pesto made with basil? And I don’t have any pine nuts in the house,” I thought to myself.

However, I found an easy Fabulous Cilantro Pesto recipe on Allrecipes.com. It required cilantro, and walnuts or pecans. Leftovers from countless pecan pie bakeoffs gave me the pecan supply.

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Rosamunde Sausage Grill
545 Haight Street
(between Fillmore St & Steiner St)
San Francisco, 94117
(415) 437-6851

Checking out this Chronicle-mentioned Bargain Bites location, I feared being met by a surly counterperson (think, Sausage Nazi). Boy was I wrong! I proclaimed myself a newbie and the guy at the counter (a combo cashier, cook, and busboy) was extremely friendly and helpful.

He suggested I start off with the Beer Sausage, made of spicy pork and beef. Ultimate frequenters of the joint, he said, consume the Wild Boar (made of apple & spice). I chose the Beer Sausage and then, he even set my expectations by saying it’d take five minutes to grill.

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