Here is a recipe I found at Vegetarian Times that I have changed quite a bit. It takes a little over 1 hour from start chopping to finish cooking, so, it is fairly fast to make. I really like the additional seeds and the fig balsamic vinegar in the dish. If you don’t have that, [...]
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I found this recipe on the Apartment Therapy Kitchen site with a number of other recipes for school lunches. I’ve been thinking of not using tuna much anymore because tuna is overfished and now full of mercury. So this recipe fit the bill for what I had been thinking about for awhile. Cooking chickpeas is [...]
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It is really amazing what a 32 square foot garden can produce. This year our garden went wild in greens. We planted several leafy lettuces, chard, collards, kale, two kinds of spinach, arugula, bib lettuce, romaine lettuce and radishes. The more traditional stuff is 3 kinds of yellow squash, zucchini, golden beets, carrots, lemon and [...]
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A good green bean salad can be taken to any summer event and enjoyed without a problem of spoiling if you don’t use mayo or eggs or other protien. The beans are harcort verts or skinny French green beans. This salad is good warm or room temp, cold, not so much. So, the perfect salad [...]
We planted some collards, kale, radish and salad spinach this year for the first time and, even though we planted each in a 1 foot square plot, we got a really good crop. We harvested the salad spinach last week, the radishes two weeks ago and since and the collards for the first time this [...]
This is one of the wonderful things that Alice Waters brought to California. A simple French tart with fruit. There are so many great cooks that made this kind of a recipe possible. I see Fannie, Julia and James here, too. Easy to make and easy to eat. Oh, get the best apples you can, [...]
Growing up in Oak Cliff, Texas, my parents would take me out to eat about once a quarter at the local Tex Mex restaurant. I loved the cheese enchiladas with chile gravy. Chile gravy is a Texas thing with ancho chiles and no meat is in it. Lovely, delicious goodness poured over rolled cheese enchiladas [...]
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I am lucky enough to have two pantries in my kitchen. I have filled one with oils, vinegars, pastas, grains, dried beans, canned beans/tomatoes/exotic things like baby corn and bamboo shoots, dried peppers/mushrooms/shrimps/flowers, many different flours, crackers, many different rices among various things we have canned ourselves. Its good to have a variety of stuff [...]
Sorry I’ve been away so long. On a mini vacation and then sick with the hacking cough and upper respiratory ICK! But, I’m back! We had a really nice and sunny mini vacation on the mid Oregon coast near Tillamook. We walked on the beach, visited the Cape Mearnes Lighthouse and spent a day in [...]
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OMG, OMG, OMG!!! This is the best sandwich ever!!! You just cannot believe what a freshly baked baguette and lovely ingredients do to make a savory sandwich. Yummy, yummy, yummy!!! The baguette is fairly easy but making the bread takes three days with a little fiddling and not too much hands on time. The sandwich [...]
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