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- 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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Dinner for One: Lamb Chop, Smashed Squash, and Duck Fat Roasted Potatoes
I have a confession to make. I haven’t been cooking all that much lately. I mean really cooking. I find myself making side dishes or desserts for gatherings I’m invited to, omelets and salads for dinner, brown rice with sauerkraut, a quick zucchini soup, sliced tomatoes and mozzarella, you get the picture. This is all [...]
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Plum-Verbena Jam
In a way, this jam is what started me on the road to writing this latest book. It happened last summer when I noticed a family member's plum tree was laden with fruit–pounds and pounds of delicious plums about to go to waste in the worst way possible, by rotting on the ground. We harvested [...]
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A Simple Taste of Spring
Spring inspired at the market. All pale greens and golds. This was a quick dinner to make (not counting prepping the artichokes). I simply roasted them with sliced garlic, olive oil, and salt, and then whisked together shallots, green garlic, fresh parsley, Meyer lemon juice, and really good olive oil and drizzled it over them. [...]
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Yes You Can Make Great Pizza At Home
I have a serious crush on a particular pizza. It’s the Italian Combo thin crust pizza at Little Star Pizza that has salami, pepperoni, sliced onions, sliced bell peppers, black olives, and pepperoncini strewn across its crackly surface. For me, it’s the combination of salty cured meat with the vinegary, spicy pepperoncini that really does [...]
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Fun & Easy Things to Do with Beans
In my classes I'm always saying, "if you've got cooked beans in the fridge, you always have food". Here's just one example. I don't remember what kind of beans they are but they look like Rio Zapes, a rich, dense bean with an appealing sweetness and a thick broth. They could just as deliciously [...]
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Rice Noodles with Daikon Pickle and Mushrooms
I developed this recipe for EcoSalon as a way to use daikon radish. It's abundant in the markets right now, sweet, crisp, and super healthy. My body craves it lately which tells me it's doing something good for me, though I'm not sure what exactly. I wanted a rice noodle dish that tasted like a [...]
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Miso-Marinated Mahi Mahi
Looks boring, but this was an easy, healthy, and pretty tasty dinner. It’s been a long time since I cooked up a protein, starch, vegetable dinner. I’d written up a recipe for miso dressing for my EcoSalon gig the day I made this. I also had 1/2 cup of coconut milk, and some lemongrass, curry [...]
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SF Food Bank Hunger Challenge: Cabbage and Rice Soup
Here’s the first official recipe for the San Francisco Food Bank Hunger Challenge. I’m trying as much as possible to use the commonly available food bank ingredients listed here at the bottom of the page. This simple soup is inspired by one of Marcella Hazan’s that includes rice and escarole and little else. I’ve upped [...]
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The Resourceful Cook: Spaghetti Frittata
Short on time and money? This is some mighty comfortable food. Sitting in your sweatpants at 9pm having finally mustered up the energy to dig through the refrigerator and make something to eat kind of food. I’m rarely not into cooking—even on the worst nights with the emptiest fridge. But this night, for whatever reason, [...]
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Turkey Chile Soup with Rice and Winter Squash