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The recipes and images on this site belong to Vanessa Barrington. Feel free to link here and if you’d like to use a recipe or image, please ask permission first. Thank you.Twitter Updates
- Chickpea and Salmon salad with spring vegetables...portable, easy, #healthy, and fast http://t.co/DlOlj7Rm 2012/05/15
- @cookingwithamy so happy you were inspired to make tortillas. It's definitely a craft, and so worth it. 2012/05/15
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Category Archives: healthy
Home-brewed Sodas Live at 18 Reasons
Though it took place last month (how is that possible?) I wanted to take a moment to blog about the home-brewed soda class my pal Nishanga taught at 18 Reasons. Nishanga showed class participants how to use ginger bug and whey to naturally ferment sodas. She discussed other starters and I brought along some homemade [...]
Also posted in DIY, Food and Drink, book events, classes, community Tagged 18 Reasons, DIY Delicious, fermenting, Gastronicity, ginger bug, homebrewing, lacto-fermented sodas, whey 5 Comments
When Life Gives You Zucchini Make O Konomi Yaki
Evidently I’m pretty good at growing summer squash, and not much else. Of all my garden plants the only two that bore much of anything edible are two very different heirloom squash varieties. They sit next to a trumpet vine so they were pollinated and pollinated and pollinated. Did I mention I live alone? I’m [...]
Also posted in Asian, gardening, seafood Tagged summer squash, vegetable cakes, vegetable fritters, vegetarian, zucchini recipes 1 Comment
Mendocino Abalone Plus Recipes: Abalone Ceviche with Kumquats and Abalone Chowder with Bacon
I’m not a diver but I’m a cook so I feel fortunate to have been invited on a camping trip with a bunch of abalone divers. I’m always happy to let my imagination run wild in the camp kitchen. And even happier to be able to eat copious amounts of one of the last wild [...]
Also posted in Latin American, food sustainability, hearty, seafood 2 Comments
On Smuggling, Renaissance Men & Chile Baked Beans with Nopales and Queso Fresco
I found these beans back in January while wandering around the big market in Cuernavaca Mexico. Like almost all markets in Latin America, there’s so much to look at it was a little hard to take it all in. At one vendor’s stall I looked down and there, among the usual plastic woven bags filled [...]
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A Sort of Persian, Mostly Vegetarian Passover
I finally wrangled an invitation to a Seder. For years I’ve only heard about the ceremony and the food, and finally this year I got to experience both. I also had the opportunity to help cook this one, so I was really excited. Our hostess, Haven Bourque, decided on a Persian menu. There were [...]
Also posted in Food and Drink, community, entertaining, from the market, holidays 1 Comment
Curried Cauliflower Soup with Annabelle’s Mustard Seed Oil and Yogurt
Whether roasted, braised, sautéed, gratinéed, or simmered gently into a soup, cauliflower is one of my favorite winter vegetables. I crave it for comfort…its soothing sweetness and versatility. It is a vegetable that takes very well to Indian spices, so when I’m craving that flavor profile, I usually braise it with whole spices that I’ve [...]
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A Healthy, Restorative Meal with Sablefish and Dal
I rarely cook a protein, starch, veg meal anymore. And I rarely eat fish either. Our oceans are just so endangered, that it’s a once-in-awhile treat these days. And it’s gotta be on Seafood Watch’s green list, or I’m not even eating it as a treat. If you’ve never cooked sablefish, you’ll find that it’s [...]
Also posted in Asian, Books, food sustainability, from the market, hearty, seafood 1 Comment
Fall Chicories Salad and Free Soup Class this Friday in Emeryville
This is one of those salads I could eat every day for months. All local from the farmers' market. Annabelle's puntarelle and escarole, Blossom Bluff persimmons, Art Davis' pecans (spiced with a little brown sugar, cayenne and other spices), and Somebody's pomegranates but I don't remember whose. It's bitter and sweet and crunchy and spicy [...]
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