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Gujarati Vegetables With Lime And Cilantro!Ever since Paula Wolfert gave me a Clay Coyote Flameware skillet the other day, I've been jonesing to use it. However, at the same time I got the skillet, I also got all inspired to fix some meatless Indian raw salads that I'd learned of from a cookbook she'd also given me. I kept staring at the beautiful Flameware skillet up on the… |
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The Raw And The Uncooked, A Meatless Monday SpecialI'm loving this whole meatless Monday business. It's great to take a break from the same old same old. One of my food blogger friends Jeroxie at Addictive and Consuming, had a post up last night where she was describing some simply divine potato and pea samosas made with filo dough. I had no business reading it at that hour as I was… |
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The Great Spinach Switch. A Fast Easy Lighter Version Of An Old FavoriteStill getting whipped around by the weather here in Sonoma. We've gone from perfect warm spring weather to hail and rain, to sun lashed by cloudbursts and windy gusts. Last night my little olive tree blew over. Time to replant. This morning it's crisp,… |
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Quick And Creamy, Super Dreamy, Cauliflower Curry!Friday, April 23, 2010 Fast And Creamy, Super Dreamy, Cauliflower Curry Let's get this up front right now. I am cheap. If I can get a bargain, I do. I love nothing more than something that I can get for 99 cents. Unless I can get it for 89 cents ! Make it organic and 89 cents and I'm in, baby! This was the situation with… |
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One Pot Rice And Dal Combo. Another Simple Indian Party DishMy last few posts have been concentrated on the Tri-fecta extravaganza we held for my parents last week; toss in Easter and we had the Godmother of all Italian dinners. So now it's back to Indian cuisine and one of the dishes I served two weeks ago… |
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Eat Your Lawn!There was a very fancy Chinese restaurant in Beverly Hills . One of the specialties was referred to as "fried greens". All the beautiful people would practically line up to make reservations and order the "fried greens". A secret recipe, they never told anybody what it was. Then one day someone mentioned how every Friday all the… |
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Creamed Spinach With An EdgeI was a weird kid. I loved spinach. It was always my favorite vegetable and I probably could have eaten it three times a day. I'm talking regular steamed spinach here, nothing fancy, no extras. My family is Italian from Florence and if there's anything a Florentine loves, it's spinach! We put it in soup, ravioli, torta and of course… |
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Beet It!Yesterday I was over the moon that I'd found a new South Asian Market here in Sonoma county. As I think I'd mentioned before we have only ONE Indian market in the entire county and they're not always the best stocked. It's the thing I do miss about Los Angeles. Ready access to good ethnic grocers. I needed to go over to Santa Rosa… |
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A Tale of Two Neighbors Or How Italian Peppers found Their Way Into Indian FoodThis isn't a very complicated story. It's mainly the tale of a small town (Sonoma). There are about 9,000 people in our town, pretty shocking when you've been living in LA for a loooooooong time, and were born and raised in San Francisco. Yes, quite a… |
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Cauliflower, Baby Potatoes, and Heirloom Tomatoes, Oh My!I love vegetarian meals, hell, I love almost everything except mayonnaise which fortunately doesn't figure in Indian cooking. One of the greatest compliments I can get at home is when my husband says.."I'm a carnivore, but damn this is really really good. I could just eat this stuff." Of course "this stuff" is vegetables. This is the… |
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I mangiafagioli: Lovers of Tuscan…
Did you know that Tuscans are sometimes nicknamed "mangiafagioli" or "bean eaters"? Indeed, there are many wonderful Tuscan bean dishes like fagioli al fiasco, fagioli all'uccelletto, fagioli e tonno, not to mention those wonderful hearty soups like ribollita. But as we all know, Tuscan cooking has much, much more to offer: pappa al pomodoro, pappardelle sulla lepre, la bistecca alla fiorentina, cacciucco, fettunta, crostini, panzanella... the list is practically endless.
Here's a group dedicated to exploring all the many culinary delights of the birthplace of the Renaissance.
Here's a group dedicated to exploring all the many culinary delights of the birthplace of the Renaissance.
