Tag: vegetarian
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[Broccoli & Spinach] Miso Slaw
As a kid, my mom would make steamed broccoli, and my favorite parts to eat were the little slices of tender stalk (outside bark was peeled off) that she would steam along with the usual tree-like shapes I would stick in bowls of rice to create a tiny diorama before eating. It wasn’t until years later…
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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…
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Cookie Mania!
GingersnapsCookies Part 1 of 4. Last Saturday night, the ingredients for baking cookies and cookie-like items started amassing on my kitchen countertop.. Clearly, I overcommitted on types of cookies: gingersnaps chocolate chip sugar cookies sweet & spicy almonds macaroons almond florentines (my personal favorite) Layer on top of that the plan to make some of…
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Cucumber Salad (Sunomono)
Bonus entry! I had leftover cucumber from that tzatziki (and leftover tzatziki too, but that’s a different puzzle), so I figured I’d make some delicious but simple cucumber salad, Japanese style. The recipe I’ve been using since 2007 was from one B. Cohen who previously hosted a series of cucumber recipes on their personal site…
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Tzatziki Sauce
(November Week 1 Trial) In anticipation of potential consumers of my meal output going down by 50% this week, I went for a minor trial this time: tzatziki sauce. I found one from The Man Fuel Blog that at least mentioned the risk of heartburn, so I went with that, at half portion. Ingredients: 1…
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Jerusalem Artichokes (a.k.a. fartichokes)
(October Week 4 Trial Ingredient) Congrats, folks, it’s a two-fer this week, for the inaugural postings of this blog. I bought some jerusalem artichokes (a.k.a. sunchokes)* at the Farmer’s Market near my work. Never had them before. Despite the internet’s warnings when I was looking up recipes (after I bought them) that these suckers were…