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Aug 11

Potato Salad Makes for a Sexy Salad Tossing

Sexy Healthy Potato Salad Yeah, I said it.  I said potato salad and sexy in the same sentence, and I mean it.  Since when is something that’s cool, creamy and tangy not sexy?  I get it, those bulbous little tubers (potatoes) (read full article)

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Aug 07

Super Moist Chocolate Zucchini Cake

Super Moist Chocolate Zucchini Cake Two things that I know to be fact are: 1 – It can be hard to get your daily requirement of fruits and vegetables. 2 – If you grow zucchini, right about now you’re trying to figure (read full article)

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Aug 04

Spicy Roasted Cauliflower Sealed with a Kiss

Spicy Roasted Cauliflower When Craig goes out of town, it’s time for me to clean up my diet (and that means a short clean detox week).  It’s not like he complains about what I cook, or don’t cook, but having a bowl (read full article)

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Aug 03

Do They Serve Asparagus with Creamy Lillet Sauce and King Crab in Stockholm

Lillet and Mascarpone Cream Sauce Rather than bore you with the “25 Things You Don’t Know About Me,” because I’m pretty sure that after number 7 I’d just be making shit up, I’m going to let you in (read full article)

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Jul 27

Colorful Carrots and Dukkah Oh My

Rainbow Carrots with Dukkah Dip My international travels this year have introduced me to so many new foods (um, no, not carrots).  Not content with simply trying a dish that I really like and being satisfied with the mere memory, I (read full article)

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Jul 12

Market Challenge Portobello Mushrooms

Grilled Portobello Mushrooms with Manchego Cheese A few weeks ago, you may remember that I did a Farmer’s Market challenge with my friend Greg from Sippity Sup and challenged him with lavender – from which he made an incr (read full article)

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Jul 09

Red and Green Table Grapes Amp Up a Summer Salsa Recipe

Red and Green Grape Salsa Summer party potlucks…ugh…what to bring?  Of course you can bring the usual brownies, guacamole or macaroni salad…but why be ordinary?  Yes, I pride myself on being different.  Sometimes (read full article)

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Jul 01

Easy Zucchini Summer Soup Recipe

Easy Zucchini Summer Soup It’s getting to be that time of year when zucchini starts to pop up everywhere.  And if you have a garden with zucchini in it, you’ll start to feel suffocated by the little green monsters in the (read full article)

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Jun 28

Spice It Up: Soyrizo Black Bean Tacos and Missionary

Soyrizo Black Bean Tacos My repertoire of Mexican recipes is pretty slim and vegetarian Mexican recipes is even slimmer.  Of course, I believe that this is fully defensible given that I live in Los Angeles and have access to numer (read full article)

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Jun 21

A Light and Healthy Cream Sauce is not an Oxymoron

Orecchiette Pasta with Light and Healthy Cream Sauce So the other day Craig and I were having a serious discussion about food.  Not to be confused with a serious discussion about what to have for dinner, it was just about food in ge (read full article)

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Jun 17

Gluten Free Quinoa Tabbouleh

Quinoa Tabbouleh Tabbouleh is a dish whose ingredients focus on Mediterranean flavors like parsley, mint, tomatoes, onions, lemons and olive oil.  If you’ve ever eaten tabbouleh, you’ve probably had it with the grain bul (read full article)

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Jun 09

Orange Fennel Marmalade

Orange Fennel Marmalade What do you do when you have so much produce in your house that there’s no room in your refrigerator for basics like milk or eggs, you’re counters look like a table at the farmer’s market (an (read full article)

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Jun 02

Baba Ganoush A Healthy Appetizer

Baba Ganoush...A Dish of Many Faces I’m always looking for some kind of healthy appetizer for when we have guests over.  I’ve got plenty of  appetizer recipes that are super yummy, and get devoured as soon as they get p (read full article)

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May 26

Crunchy Asian Chicken Salad

Crunchy Asian Chicken Salad It’s almost Summer and that means more than bikini season (as I have mentioned more than once recently, I know), it also means that we’re getting into picnic and party season.  Usually that m (read full article)

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May 24

Meatless Monday With Morels Asparagus and Craigslist

Fresh Morels and Asparagus Bon Jour!  I am back, after a short hijacking by the oh so lovely Mr. Rhinovirus.  But I’m back and it’s time to drink me in like a fine, unexpired, elixir of Cherry flavored Nyquil with a sup (read full article)

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May 06

Grilled Artichokes and Tangy Smoky Dipping Sauce Recipe

Grilled Artichokes and Tangy Smoky Dipping Sauce Twice a year my girlfriends and I head up to Los Olivos for Vintner’s Weekend.  It’s a girls only day…no boys allowed.  The rules are actually more strict than that (read full article)

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Mar 15

Bread and Butter Pickles

Refrigerator Bread and Butter Pickles I have been mesmerized by the news story about the Korean man who married his pillow.  In case you hadn’t heard…28 year old Lee Jin-gyu married what amounts to a body pillow emblazoned with a Japane (read full article)

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Mar 03

Roasted Sweet Potato Salad

Roasted Sweet Potato Salad Yes, Virginia, you can put roasted sweet potatoes into a salad! Since when do vegetables, specifically cooked vegetables, have to be relegated to side dish status?  Let’s not be casting our vegetables into some imagi (read full article)

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Feb 17

Inside Out Chicken Pot Pie

Inside Out Chicken Pot Pie Can you think of another dish that is so comforting and yet as versatile as chicken pot pie?  It truly is a one dish meal.  You’ve got your bread (the crust), you’ve got your meat (the chicken), you’ve g (read full article)

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Feb 15

Easy Mushroom Strudel

Crispy Mushroom Strudel I will apologize now for my picture of the mushroom strudel.  I realize that it is rather difficult to see much of the details of the mushroom filling.  But how about those flaky layers of crispy crunchy phyllo dough? Truth (read full article)

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