product-reviews
Nutribullet or Nutri Ninja—The Ultimate Battle!
Do you love smoothies but do not know which bullet blender will be the best pick for you? Are you confused between the top-rated Nutribullet or Nutri Ninja?
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6 Quick and Creative Recipes to Make in a Food Processor
There are far more interesting things you can make with a food processor rather than beating egg whites for a sponge cake or grinding meat for lasagna bolognese.
vegan
“I Love Me” Smoothie Recipe
May is So Delicious SO MUCH TO LOVE Month!
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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,
corn
Corn and Quinoa Fritters Recipe
And there it is. And I didn’t know it at the time. Like so many “lasts.”
vegan
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
spring
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
vegan moroccan chickpea soup
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
blistered peppers
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
vegan
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.
vegan
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!)
daiya cheese sandwich
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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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.
churchview farm dinner
Magical Evening: The BK Churchview Farm Dinner
This past winter, when Tara Rockacy asked me to take on one of the upcoming season’s super popular Churchview Farm Dinners, I said “hell yeah!”
cookbooks
My Cookbook Wishlist (and Cookbooks I Loved This Year)
You know how there are people who are hard to buy presents for? Not me. I’m super easy. Buy me a good cookbook. In fact, don’t buy me flowers. Ever. Buy me a cookbook.
holidays
The Ultimate Brazen Kitchen Holiday Gift Guide
Hey yinz, last minute folks (like me!) here is The Brazen Kitchen Ulitmate Holiday Gift Guide — all the gifting ideas you need in one place!
julia erickson
The House Special: Drunken Pirouettes with Julia Erickson (Best Homemade Present!)
So happy to get together with Julia Erickson, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater Principal Dancer and Co-Founder of Barre (one of my favorite energy bars!)
juice fest
The 7 Events You CANNOT Miss
There’s not much preamble required to this post except to say that THIS WEEKEND will trigger the start of a deluge of fantastic events! I’m beside myself with excitement — Pittsburgh is truly hoppin’!
jackfruit carnitas
Veghacker Dinner at Verde Tomorrow!
It’s happening tomorrow! Verde is going all-vegan! And its going to be amazing!
kitchen-guides
Join me at the Whole Foods Healthy Living Conference! (Plus free tix!)
Hello everyone! I hope you had a good summer!
interesting people
Thank you, iDavid Studios for sharing my voice.
I am not a “chef” (I say this in reverence to all the great chefs I have had the honor to know) but I am passionate about food education and advocacy.
kitchen-guides
We Need Your Help!
I am working on a new project. This a long(er) term project that has been in the thinking/planning stages for some time, now. Together with my dear friend and colleague, Jayda from Eat Whole Be Vital, we are asking for your help. We want to
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This is Me on Drugs
I can’t believe how long ago this was. I have to look at this picture from time to time to remind myself how far I’ve gone. This was me in my 20’s. After years of going to doctors trying to figure out why I was having chronic pain, reflux,
recipes
The Last Plate of Summer 2013: Roasted Cherry Tomatoes with Quinoa, Greens and Pesto
Originally published on Pittsburgh Magazine “Clearly, the sun loosened morals and melted minds. Then the Germans got naked and changed everything.” No. Not nudist biergarten. Close. An article in The Atlantic about the healing power of the
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How to Fancify Your Everyday Pasta
Beat that weekday dinner rush with some amped up pantry staples! Originally published on Pittsburgh Magazine We all have our personal “high–risk” stores. These are the stores that you go to where you go in with an efficient little list and
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Raise the {Taco} Bar!
Originally published on Pittsburgh Magazine En fuego! Is what everyone will think you’re in because you will be the hottest ticket on this last weekend of summer. Why? Because you will be making the baddest a$$ taco bar for miles around. Ho
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Chilled Raw Avocado Cucumber Soup
Originally published on Pittsburgh Magazine
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The Best Summer Cocktails (or Mocktails, if you will)
Originally published on Pittsburgh Magazine Virgin is not a pejorative term. I’m talking about food and drink here, people. Now “mocktail” – don’t even get me started. No one ever says, “I think I’m going to have a mocktail.” If I’m wrong,
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Cashew Vinaigrette Inspired by Kevin Sousa (and Alain Passard) PLUS a Giveaway!
“Here we are in a situation approaching fantasy…in agreeing to a rendezvous, the two accomplices lead us to an unexpected pleasure garden…The scent is ravishing… the duo throb(s) with life.” What? No. I’m not reading a “novel” with Fabio on
kitchen-guides
Chef-for-a-Night to Raise Funds for Food Revolution!
Last week, I played restaurant at Bar Marco to raise funds for the Obama High School Cooking Club — a Food Revolution Pittsburgh project. Working in the restaurant kitchen was one of the best times I’ve ever had. Read all about it on Pittsb
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Black-eyed Pea Fritters with Bayou Marinara
Finally! The recipes for the vegan entree at last week’s Bar Marco No Menu Monday!
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Kale and Pineapple Stew with Peanut Sauce in THE HOUSE SPECIAL with Kate Stoltzfus
I would say the first seeds of this video project were planted 15 years ago during my first summer in Brooklyn. I had a mile walk from the subway to my apartment and I looked forward to it every evening. I walked a long stretch under the ca
vegan
Strawberries in Balsamic Vinegar and Black Pepper {with Coconut Whipped Cream}
During the season, I tend to like my fruits with as little embellishment as possible. When I say embellishment, I mean sugar. They are so fresh and sparklingly pretty that its a pleasure enough to enjoy them unadorned. But of course, it hel
vegan
Easy Summer Rolls
We’ve hit it. Summer Solstice. 93 degrees. Heat index 100. Cooking is a bad word. RAW is good. Now while these rolls are technically not 100% raw (the rice had to be turned into paper rolls at some point!), let’s not split hairs. You will n
vegan burger
The Best Veggie Burger Ever. {Bonus Miso Mayo 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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Cereal Milk Panna Cotta with Caramelized Cornflakes and Strawberry Puree
Here’s an homage to Momofuku and mommy. And a kudos to the imagination of Milk Bar‘s brilliant Christina Tosi – James Beard Rising Star Chef of the Year! A wonderful reimagining of your favorite childhood breakfast. Just in time for mother’
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“I Love Me” Smoothie
May is So Delicious SO MUCH TO LOVE Month! What does that mean? So Delicious is having a weekly contest with each week themed Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack/Dessert. My recipes are finalists in three categories and I will post them as they
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The Brazen Kitchen on NPR (and a recipe for Vegan Potato Latkes with Wild Greens)
I hope you enjoyed the Girl Gone Wild post on Pittsburgh Magazine. If you haven’t seen it click on this! The pesto recipe was also featured on NPR Weekend Edition, on a segment by our very own Larkin Page-Jacobs of Essential Public Radio. I
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The BK on Pittsburgh Magazine Launches!
Did you see? Did you hear? I am so excited to share that The Brazen Kitchen on Pittsburgh Magazine Online launched this week! The BK on PghMag will be a weekly online column that will feature recipes the BK way – shamelessly good for you. I
kitchen-guides
Farm to Table Conference 2012 {and FREE TIX!}
It’s that time of year! Spring is in the air. Flowers and early spring crops are starting to peek out of the ground (making us smile everytime we pass them). Daylight Savings Time is about to take an hour from our weekend but give us a much
food
My Top 5 Films on "Food & Love"
I have three vices: food, romance and movies. Chances are you like all three too!
recipes
Posh Nosh: Your Superbowl Menu
Ooooh, game day is coming! But first, try this I.Q. Test = Gowns:Academy Awards as _____________:Superbowl. Hint: its the only time I await these interruptions. That’s right. Notwithstanding GoDaddy commercials, its the only time of year th
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Uzbek Tacos {Beet Tacos with Arugula and Crunchy Tofu}
If greens are the new black then tacos are the new cupcakes. You remember. That seminal “Sex and the City” episode with Magnolia Bakery was an auspicious moment in cupcake history. Spawning ultra-expensive designer cupcake stores culminatin
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Chocolate Hazelnut Eggnog Pie {Nuff Said}
CHOCOLATE! HAZELNUT! EGGNOG! PIE! You need no more words. Chocolate Hazelnut Eggnog Pie Adapted from Bryant Terry Ingredients Your favorite pie crust – I used vegan puff pastry Filling ¾ cup So Delicious Coconut Nog (I cannot get enough of
jamie oliver food revolution
School Lunch Program: Bought and Sold
ACCORDING TO CONGRESS, THERE ARE TWO VEGETABLES ON THIS PLATE.
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Girl Crushes and Bars
Come on. You have one. Me? I don’t have one. Not at all….I’m a playa. I have a lot of them. And let me say that Leah H. is one of them. Check out this bad ass photo and let me hear you say “no doubt.” (Let’s pretend that that’s a toothpick
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Missed Connections – P4F
When I was living in NY, my train was the F train, which rivals only the L train on mentions in Missed Connections. The “Flirty Train” it was known then {gag}. And urban legend had it that if you want some 15 minutes of blind ad fame on Cra
gluten free vegan blue cornmeal blueberry pancakes
Comfort Me With Pancakes (and Why Sundays Are Sacred)
I write this on a Sunday, on a plane ride back home from a business trip that overtook my weekend. A Sunday I begrudgingly gave to “work.”
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The Last Plate of Summer
And there it is. And I didn’t know it at the time. Like so many “lasts.” The next thing I knew, I needed a sweater in the early morning. Its dark at 7:30. Hot baths feel good again. I start to smell cinnamon and nutmeg in the air.
venture accelerator
Whiskey is Vegan. And Now, Local. Now, Give Me a #%^& Drink
[Warning: This dives deep into my tech strategy consulting psyche so if you just want the whiskey recipe – it is Friday after all - command-down arrow]
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Brazen Bites 6.21: 2030 is the new 2012. Maybe there is such a thing as a free lunch. And other stories.
If I weren’t so lazy, I would consult AP Style on the best way to write that title. But does it really matter in the post-modern blog writing world? Does a Creative Commons License impute a creative license? And while we’re asking such exis
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Garlicky Linguine with Maple Tempeh
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
vegan
Hack the Mac!
I don’t think I need to write a long preamble to mac and cheese.
recipes
8 Soups to Warm Your Bones This Winter
Record low temps are upon us and this tropical fish is planning to spend those days in her super thermal pajamas under an arctic-grade comforter. This weekend, I am cooking up a few batches of soup and getting ready. Here are my 8 go-to’s i
fed up
Fed Up: The Movie – Join me for a screening on January 17!
Join me and an esteemed panel for a screening and discussion of FedUp on Saturday, January 17 at 1:30 PM at the Carnegie Library in Homewood.
rebootcamp
Here it is! The BK 2015 ReBOOT!
The Brazen Kitchen 2015 ReBOOT. Health is not about crash diets or the latest fitness fad Health is about understanding your body, educating yourself about food, and learning how to make good habits fit into your everyday life. YOUR life. W
twice baked potato
Mashed Potato Quinoa Puffs with Sriracha Mayo
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.
garden of flavor
Preparing for the season of plenty.
It’s that time of year. It starts with Halloween and then its downhill (or uphill, maybe?) from there. The season of celebrations, cocktail parties, and holiday gatherings. The season of food. Lots of it. And drink. Lots of it.
healthy breakfasts
Reboot Breakfast: Start the day (start the year) right!
I’ve wanted to do this roundup for so long and what better time than now? Let’s take advantage of our new year’s resolve and truly head toward the path to a healthier you!
recipes
Start The Year Right Salad
The mother of all Mondays is the first day back at work in January. That day has two sides. The glass-half-empty side is like, “Ugh, I can’t believe the food bender that started at Thanksgiving has to end.” (Suuuure, you can soften the blow
the 52 new foods challenge
The Easiest Butternut Squash Soup from The 52 New Foods Challenge
Raise your hands if you have picky kids!
recipes
What Does Trevett Hooper Eat at Home?
Among many other things – including the flawless flavors coming from his kitchen at Legume that garnered his prestigious James Beard Award nomination in 2013 – Chef Trevett Hooper has been known for his vision of sustainability that tends t
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