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September 2020
Articles published in September 2020.
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Caramelized Cabbage and Onion Soup Recipe
This soup ain’t fancy pretty but it sure is yummy.
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Celery Root Soup Recipe
“May you live in interesting times.” So goes the [allegedly] Chinese curse. This adage leaves me constantly vacillating between clarity and skepticism. Is it really a curse? Is it truly better to live a life of measured mellowness? Or will
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia Pudding Parfait Recipe
Quelle horreur! Am I really asking you to eat seeds that we know germinate into inanimate pets? Us Gen-X’ers have all seen this infomercial enough to ensure that it is forever seared in our brains.
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Chickpea Fries with Garlic Mayo Recipe
I know. I know. I just posted about a cleansing soup and now I turn around and post this chickpea fry atrocity. I am not trying to sabotage you. I’m trying to help you. The fact is, when you are transitioning to a more healthful way of life
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Chickpea Plov Recipe
I’m a fan of one pot meals. Who isn’t? This is one heck of a one-pot meal from my friend, of the Easy Access Cookies fame). I am jealous that she’s done what I have not been able to bring myself to do – veganize a dish I grew up with. I’m c
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Cleansing Comforting Miso Noodle Soup with Seaweed Recipe
Now that the seemingly unending bacchanalia that started on Thanksgiving is over, I am ready for a break. And this weather has me craving for my favorite cleansing soup. It is effortless to prepare. And like a great mathematical construct,
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Corn and Quinoa Fritters Recipe
And there it is. And I didn’t know it at the time. Like so many “lasts.”
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Crispy Caramelized Brussels Sprouts over Miso Lime Noodles Recipe
Now my experience has shown me that appetizers and starters are almost always more interesting than entrees. And once again, it is true in this case. I love cucumber soda. A mix of cucumber juice (not through a juicer, but pureed in a Vitam
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Easy Japanese Noodles Recipe
The recipe below is really about the sauce. It’s a simple basic Japanese Noodles base called Mentsuyu. It is a mixture of konbu broth, soy sauce, mirin and sugar. You can make this sauce in bulk and store it in your fridge to dress any vege
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Garlicky Linguine with Maple Tempeh Recipe
I know. I know. I promised I would be gentle. And here I go, not even a month along and I’m already posting about tempeh. Wait, wait. Before you throw your hands up in “I-knew-she-was-going-to-go-all-vegan-granola-on-me” disbelief and close
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Grown-Up Iced Tea Recipes
This is not about those kinds served in Long Island and don’t say “Arizona” and “Iced Tea” in one sentence in my presence. Unless you are actually enduring heat in Arizona, drinking iced tea, and not the kind from a gas station grocery stor
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Harira {Moroccan Chickpea Soup} Recipe
Traditionally served after Ramadan to break the fast, I think Harira (or Moroccan Chickpea Soup) is the sexiest soup ever. That’s right. I suppose all the metaphors I impute to this soup is naturally subjective but I’m confident you’ll unde
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Hot Blistered Shisito Peppers
These peppers are Shisito peppers and if that question’s answer was in Scoville units, this would be a 0 or 1. (Answer: NOT). The Scoville is an organoleptic test that measures the heat or capsaicin content of peppers. (Really, I just wante
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Lemon Poppy seed with Lemon Buttercream Cupcakes Recipe
My friend commented that Pinterest made her realize that people really, really, REALLY love cupcakes. I mean, REALLY. And she’s not off the mark.
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No Bake Pumpkin Pie {Silky Smooth} Recipe
Its almost Thanksgiving Eve. Your friends are posting about baking marathons, turkey frying woes and “the best stuffing” wars on Facebook. You? You still haven’t decided on what to bring to your potluck and Homer Simpson’s “You don’t win fr
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Quick & Rustic Peach Tart Recipe
All of my friends know I’m a lazy baker. And I declare this almost every time I post a baked good. Which you should find encouraging because you can be quite assured that everything I post, took as little effort as possible to achieve maxim
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Quinoa Cornmeal Skillet Bread Recipe
Herbes de Provence and Cornbread. Definitely an unexpected and unlikely coupling but I assure you are the most suprisingly compatible things.
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Raw Cheesecake with Chocolate Ganache Recipe
It is very easy to create metaphors between love and food. Food is divine – an appetizing allegory for love – which is definitely and infinitely delectable. Both are visceral, encompassing and intellectually impossible to reduce down to the
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The Best Veggie Burger Ever Recipe
Ah, just in time for Memorial Day weekend! Your new favorite veggie burger – packed with as much umami as I can think of and so worth the gamut of ingredients (make a double, triple batch — the whole summer is ahead of us!)
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The Drunken Sandwich {Avocado Sandwich with a Bang} Recipe
I finally found my go-to sandwich. And it is NOT for the faint of heart. Its for the pregnant maybe. For the drunk, DEFINITELY. But seriously, I can eat this for breakfast any day.
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Valentine’s Day Pancakes Recipe
Pink and fluffy and…”rustic” (if you don’t have fancy heart molds). These pancakes, while yummy, started out quite “empty” in my book until the impending arrival of Valentine’s Day pushed for pinkness to please the kids. Eschewing food colo
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Vegan Potato Latkes with Wild Greens Recipe
These vegan potato latkes are simple to make, and you can easily add ANY wild green such as dandelion (tastes like watercress or arugula), chickweed, lamb’s quarters etc. It gives your latke an unexpected twist (AND a nutrient boost).
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Aloo Gobi {Cauliflower Curry}
A quick post to share one of my favorite Indian dishes Aloo Gobi {Cauliflower Curry}. It goes so well with another favorite: Rajma Masala. Read all about Indian food and how to make it at home on Pittsburgh Magazine.
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Chilled Raw Avocado Cucumber Soup
Raw Avocado Cucumber Soup is going to be one of my summer staples. Deeeeelicious!!!
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Easy-Access Cookies
My friend Jennet, who loves food and loves to talk about food (makes you wonder why we’re friends) brought these cookies to a potluck once. My other friend, and I, immediately pounced on them, repeatedly, unable to marshall the strength to
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Lentil Chili with Chocolate Recipe
While this is not in any way, shape, or form, claiming to be a version of Oaxacan mole, consider it a good first foray into the flavor possibilities that chocolate-as-savory presents.
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Mashed Potato Quinoa Puffs with Sriracha Mayo Recipe
Fiddling with mashed potatoes sounds like a Rube Goldberg exercise, but, dear reader, to come up with a way to liberate it from the confines of a table and fork setting, to be enjoyed wherever we please – this is a necessary complication.
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Orange Poppy Seed Cake with Raspberry Maple Glaze and Spring Flowers Recipe
We’ve all had our revenge fantasies. From the “involuntary” schadenfreude to the out and out Sesame Street-style “what would happen if I pop this balloon..?” But the best revenge is always the sweet kind. Which brings me to this cake. I can
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Ramp Crepes Recipe
Ramps Crepes (or wild leeks) are perennials whose flavor is the best “2-in-1” of the sauté world: garlic and onion together. How can one resist that magic coupling? Ramps Crepes grow early in the spring for a brief period of time and their
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Red Cabbage and Arame with Caramelized Radishes Recipe
I figured I can’t pay a straight up St. Patrick’s Day homage without putting some “fusion” into the mix. Really, the extent of this tribute is that it uses cabbage — more often associated with Irish cooking than anything I know of except ma
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The Best Salad Dressing Ever… Recipe
I know that sounds hyperbolic but take it from someone who thinks salad is anathema in the cold months. And here in Pittsburgh, that would be 3/4 of the year — in this tropical girl’s definition of “cold”.
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The Holy Grail Mac and Cheese
I don’t think I need to write a long preamble to Holy Grail mac and cheese.
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Asian-Style Peaches and Cream
Wonder Woman. That’s who your friends will think you are after you make this mind-bending dessert.
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How to Cleanse in a HeartBEET
Its that season! This arctic cold and the illnesses going around is pushing me to support my immune system with some nutrition-packed vegetables. One of the easiest ways to boost your immunity is to actually gently “cleanse” with vegetables
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Peak-of-the-Season Peach, Zucchini and Tomato Salad with Basil Vinaigrette
Let’s talk peaches. Are you thinking dessert? Think again, buster.
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Two-Minute Blackberry Ice Cream
Before I hear one word out of you about the heat and humidity, let’s take a moment to remind ourselves where we came from. We are a mere five months removed from The Polar Vortex. Remember?
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Pizza Stuffed French Toast
I promised my kids I would always make either pancakes or French toast every Sunday. But last weekend, I had none of the ingredients for either one. And I hate breaking promises. So I improvised.
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