Last January, I posted about my New Year’s Resolution to stop pretending that food storage worked like a bank vault, and to start using up food from my freezer and pantry before I had to throw any of it out. I started with the bag of three-summers-old frozen blackberries that I found on New Year’s
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February 16, 2013
An Update on Operation Use-It-Up
December 1, 2012
The Great Rancho Vignola Giveaway!
This past week has been pretty nuts at my house. And I mean that literally. On Friday, I received a delivery 475 pounds of nuts and dried fruit, which some friends and I spent the evening sorting out and sharing amongst ourselves. It sounds pretty nutty (read: mentally unhinged), doesn’t it? Well, once you have tasted
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September 13, 2012
Chinese Style Eggplant with Roasted Tofu
I am posting this recipe for two reasons: 1) It’s eggplant season right now and people, I’ve noticed, need help with eggplant ideas. 2) People also need help with tofu. And this post includes the hassle-free, the non-stick, the delicious, and I mean delicious, recipe for Crispy Roasted Tofu. My roasted tofu recipe might be
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July 26, 2012
Exciting Moments
Sometimes, when I want to give it all up in despair – the long hours, the one-woman show, the stress of self-employment while parenting young kids – the universe throws me a nice meaty bone of encouragement. Or two, even. I am happy to say that this week, I have been bolstered up, and so
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June 21, 2011
New Potato YUM Salad
It’s the first day of summer and so I’m sending out a favourite warm-weather recipe of mine. I adore new potatoes, but when they are bathed in a smoky-spicy-sweet-limey dressing, I want to marry them. That’s what this recipe is: the salad I want to marry. I learned how to make the original recipe when I first started cooking
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February 21, 2011
Vote for Me! (Please and Thank you)
I am pretty excited these days. My blog has been nominated for two (2!) different blog awards! One award for the Best Mom Food Blogger at babble.com and another for Best Health Blog Awards in the ‘Eat Well’ category. Please excuse me while I make an excited shriek. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, I’m all better now. But if you feel
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August 16, 2010
The Recipe That Never Was
I had originally planned for this to be a post about Grandma’s blueberry muffins – about how I was out-cheffed by my very own mother-in-law. Only a week after I had blogged my definitive blueberry muffin recipe, she showed up at a family picnic with the best blueberry muffins I had ever tasted. (Damn her).
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April 15, 2010
Because I want gold in 2010
Chef Heidi Fink wants to win the Best Cooking Classes in the City for the second year running. Let’s help her win gold in 2010!
February 10, 2010
Cooking With Tea
This is almost the strangest thing I do – I cook with tea. Well, to be honest, I do many, many strange things, especially in the kitchen, but cooking with tea still fills me with a sense of wonderful, uneasy awe, as in: “How is it possible to cook with this stuff?” But possible it
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January 9, 2010
Red Seal Cook-off
I thought I was a Chef, but then I challenged the Red Seal. A Red Seal separates the real Chefs from the posers who call themselves “chef”. It represents, at the very least, culinary training, a three year cooking apprenticeship, and an excellent score on a nationally standardized chef test. Or, it is given to the crazies among us
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