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This morning I cooked for a client who had a "no salt" dietary restriction.  One of the entrees I made was a chickpea and quinoa pilaf with sauteed baby bok choy and shiitake mushroom.  It was tough restraining myself from adding tamari to (read full article)

Fried Rice with Egg, Mushrooms and Green Peas

posted July 29, 2010 in Filipino Cuisines and Native Foods

Cooking Ingredients:2 cups cooked long grain rice6 tablespoons/90 ml vegetable oil 8 ounces/225 g assorted mushrooms (such as oyster and stemmed shiitake), coarsely chopped2 large eggs, beaten to blend 4 small carrots (about 4 ounces/115 g total), p (read full article)

Creamy Pesto Pasta

Here is a more from-scratch pasta dish. Ahem. I apologize in advance for not having printable versions or nutritional info. Please bear with me while I get my programs back from the great lightning strike/computer massacre. Source: Simply in Season (read full article)

Creamy Pesto Pasta

Here is a more from-scratch pasta dish. Ahem. I apologize in advance for not having printable versions or nutritional info. Please bear with me while I get my programs back from the great lightning strike/computer massacre. Source: Simply in Season (read full article)

Mushrooms a la Stroganoff

posted June 30, 2010 in Menu Resto Chef Krendo

Ingredients :- 1 cup Brown Vegetable Stock (recipe follows) - 1 1/4 pounds mushrooms (a combination of cremini and shiitake) - 2 cups sliced onions - 1 medium clove garlic, peeled and minced - Optional: 2 tablespoons dry sherry - 1 tablespoon sweet p (read full article)

Sautéed Shiitake and Crimini Mushrooms

posted June 30, 2010 in Dishful Thinking

A quick veggie side dish with fresh produce from none other than my beloved farmer’s market.  I found a gorgeous mushroom stand at the market with a dozen or so different species of mushrooms.  Overwhelmed (and unable to pronounce most of the (read full article)

A cure for migraine – Creamy herb polenta with sauté wild mushrooms and hot tomato coulis

posted June 22, 2010 in Citron et Vanille

Per curare l’emicrania – Polenta con parmigiano e rosmarino – funghi selvatici e passata piccante di pomodoro After a gloomy weekend with a terrible migraine, that immobilized me for few days in bed, I decided that I wanted t (read full article)

Israeli Couscous with Chicken, Mushrooms, Garlic Scapes and Asparagus

Will wonders never cease? I actually cooked a meal at home last night - and a tasty meal at that! This dish is based on Bev Bennett's recipe for Couscous Pilaf with Chicken and Mushrooms that appeared recently in the New Haven Register. Mama Div (read full article)

My Monday Menu Plan: Lettuce

posted June 07, 2010 in Kitchen Gadget Girl

Healthy Salads Our box from Two Small Farms is loaded with lettuce, so I think this week is going to be all about salads. Hopefully the weather will cooperate, as salads are best, IMHO, when it is too hot to cook. And, as it turns out, the folks at (read full article)

05.22.10: dinner (pizza pizza!)

posted June 02, 2010 in The Manhattan Food Project

Simple Caprese Pizza Did you know that Little Caesar’s still exists?  It’s been years since I’ve seen an ad for them (though that stupid jingle remains an eternal earworm), much less a physical location, but a few months ago one po (read full article)

Chicken Lettuce Wraps

posted June 01, 2010 in Laura's Recipe Collection

  While it may not be perfectly authentic, I absolutely love PF Chang’s. Unfortunately the closest location to us in Northern Michigan is more than 3 hours away, so we don’t get to go as often as we’d like, thus leaving me lettuce-wrap-le (read full article)

05.16.10: brunch (pizza, fritatta, and seven pounds of bacon)

posted May 26, 2010 in The Manhattan Food Project

Clear Out the Leftovers Fritatta For all of the talking and writing and photographing of food we do, especially on the weekend, breakfasts and brunches are noticeably absent here on this blog.  It’s odd because we both love breakfast food, but (read full article)

05.22.10: dinner (bruschetta and mushroom ragu).

posted May 25, 2010 in The Manhattan Food Project

Bruschetta over Multigrain Crostini When friends come to visit and ask for a home-cooked meal of the Italian persuasion, the proper host puts his machinations for chipotle-glazed meatloaf on hold and break out the macchina-de-pasti.  Tomatoes ar (read full article)

Very Tasty Fried Vegetable

posted May 22, 2010 in Authentic Curry Recipes

Heat up a little canola oil, or whatever you like to stir-fry with, in a deep pan or wok. Put the harder vegetables in first, and cook them hot, stir-frying them to keep them from getting burned. When those are starting to soften, turn down the heat (read full article)

MUSHROOMS – CULINARY DELIGHTS.

posted May 22, 2010 in Winesworld\'s Blog

Wild and cultivated mushrooms have delighted gourmets and gourmands for centuries. They are light, nutritionally valuable, low in cholesterol, and elevate simple meals to heavenly heights. Mushrooms are a good source of riboflavin, copper, selenium, (read full article)

Spaghetti with Mushrooms

posted May 19, 2010 in Tamarind and Thyme

Hey, it’s another quick pasta dish suitable for busy weeknights! As usual, no time to cook plus a tiny kitchen that needs some new organisation results in fast meals. I do pride myself on making do with what I have though and what I did have a (read full article)

Hot And Delicious Singapore Noodles Recipe

posted May 13, 2010 in Authentic Curry Recipes

Preparation time: 20 minutes Total cooking time: 10 minutes Serves: 4 to 6 Ingredients for Singapore noodles recipe: 150 g (5 oz.) dried rice vermicelli oil, for cooking250 g (8 oz.) Chinese barbecued pork, cut into small pieces 250 g (8 oz.) peeled (read full article)

Yaki Shiitake (Shiitake & Scallion Yakitori) for The Mushroom Channel

posted May 10, 2010 in La Fuji Mama

So you already know that we’re big fans of mushrooms here in the Fuji household.  But what you might not know is that I’m one of the contributors for The Mushroom Channel, the website for the Mushroom Council, for the 2010 year!  In fac (read full article)

Chicken Wontons

posted May 08, 2010 in Healthy Food Choices for Kids

Chicken and Mushroom Wontons My children enjoy making these with me. Chicken and mushroom wontons are easy to prepare and cook. My children have fun making and eating their own wontons as soon as they are cooked. Ingredients: 4 dried shiitake mush (read full article)

Another risotto story – Saffron risotto with dandelions, spinach and shiitake

posted May 04, 2010 in Citron et Vanille

Un’altra storia di risotto – Risotto allo zafferano, tarassaco, spinaci e funghi shiitake Other names for dandelion or dente di leone, or even tarassaco, piscialetto (pee in bed) in Italian, pissenlit, dent de lion in French – that (read full article)

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