Got off track for awhile…other tasks. Here is tonight’s dinner, a recipe found on Pinterest from Straight Up Food. I made a couple of tweaks and think it might be nice with a couple more next time, especially substituting a little red wine
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So here’s another easy thing I like to do: pureed soups. So easy. So good. So healthy. I just chunked an onion and put it into my Dutch oven, then a cauliflower broken up (2-3 pounds), 5 or 6 large leaves of
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So these meals are nothing special, just playing around with my new Dutch Oven. I like the feeling that if I’m going to add heavy metals to my diet, it’s iron that I’m getting. Always was low on that. This simple dinner
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I’ve never done the one-event pasta thing, cooking the dry pasta in with the rest of the ingredients, so this was a first for me in a couple of ways. I should have trusted the recipe I started with on the water.
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I watched Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food on PBS earlier this week, and I thought that part of what we need to do is revise this style of thinking that calls veggie dishes either a “side” or a “salad.” In the new style
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In The Woodstock Independent, 2013 As the only vegetarian cafe in the area, I have many health-conscious customers. Increasingly they ask for gluten-free products. Most of my food is, in fact, gluten-free naturally. For those who want some kind of bread with
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OK, I’m in love. I made a Shabbat dinner for our scholar-in-residence weekend, and the visiting scholar was the first (and only) female rabbi in Italy. Of course I decided to make an Italian inspired dinner. Of course it had to include
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“Thanksgiving dinner’s sad and thankless. Christmas dinner’s dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey’s point of view.” – Shel Silverstein If you are vegetarian and the rest of your family and friends are not, you
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This delicious sweet potato preparation is both sweet and spicy from the natural sweetness of the potatoes and the crushed red pepper. The salad marks a special “anniversary” for me — it was six years ago to the day on Halloween that
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Printed in The Woodstock Independent, January 2013 “Avoid food that makes health claims. Don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health.” – Rule # 2 from Food Rules by Michael Pollan.
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