Tag: butter
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Your Friends Will Love These Treats – Paleo-Friendly Granola Bars
On the tails of last week’s post: this time, some people treats! My crossfitting significant other sent me this paleo-friendly recipe via Flipboard message about a year ago, and I’ve been making it ever sense, especially for road trips and hiking. Most recently, I heard my next adventure is going to involve food price sticker…
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What is that?! How to try a new vegetable
Novelty is the spice of life. Oh wait, that’s variety. Well, I like novelty.. Step 1: Walk inside a grocery store, bodega or your favorite market. Step 2: Spot a piece of produce that makes your brain itch with curiosity. In this case: this delightfully geometric vegetable next to the cauliflower.
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What CAN you eat off the ground?
Forest Fire Fruit: Morels! I was lucky enough to score some wild-foraged morels from my friend Tesia, after she came back from a good weekend of collecting them. Apparently, her s.o. even maps out last year’s forest fires to track where good spots to find some morel treasure. It definitely peaked my interest, especially after…
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Wild Rice Soup
Dear Reader, I staged another upo squash battle, so stay tuned for another installment of the upo trials soon. But for now… Here’s a first for the blog: a recipe trial based off a magnet! Specifically this one, which I bought from my home state long ago and always meant to use. With Autumn in full swing,…
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Scrambled Eggs, the Ramsay Way
My friend Chase made scrambled eggs for breakfast, “the Ramsay Way.” I played sous chef with the ham, and self-designated shutterbug, obvi. Below is the modified recipe per what we did. Thanks, Chase! Always fun to try something new! See: Gordon Ramsay’s recipe on Food.com
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Herbed Butter
Some of you may be wondering why there hasn’t been a post in a while. Maybe one of you is wondering what happened with the spiralizer you loaned me, or what I ate on vacation in South America. Ooops, sorry, I’ve been busy seizing life by the throat and shaking it around. I do plan…
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Pasta alla Carbonara
I needed to whip up a nice backdrop for an easy but satisfying Sunday night dinner with a treat of seared scallops.* I had turkey bacon and egg on hand, and picked up some bucatini. This one from Nook and Pantry has been sitting at the ‘bottom’ of my Evernote recipe box for a while,…
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Braised Celery
My “roommate” sent me this recipe in an email, a pretty direct hint to try making it. Recipe from A Girl DeFloured Total Time: 15 minutes Serves 2-3 Ingredients 4 stalks of celery, scrubbed and ends trimmed (chop and reserve leaves) 2 tsp butter Pinch of salt and freshly ground black pepper 1/4 cup of…
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Zucchini Panini!
You know it’s good, ‘cuz it rhymes! If you have a panini press, or maybe even a george foreman grill, this is a nice quick sandwich with melty cheese you can munch on while wrapping gifts, baking cookies, or whatever it is you’re busy doing this month. Open-faced Zucchini Sandwiches Ingredients: 1 small zucchini, sliced…
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Mustard Lemon Cauliflower
This is a decent weekday recipe, based on the time spent, although you don’t get to just set it in the oven and forget it until it’s done. I cut the original amount of butter with olive oil so you can pretend it’s healthier. The initial recipe is based on one from the November 2006…