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Website: White Lotus Cooks
Despite being certain that I'd bought a pound of butter, when the desire for rice krispie treats struck, we couldn't find it. So - I figured that another firm fat might work - and google led me to this recipe.
Melting the marshmallows into the melted coconut oil seemed more difficult than with butter, but oh the flavor! A nice flavor of coconut - not too strong - in the crunchy gooey bar. This is one experiment worth repeating.
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Website: Weight Watchers
www.weightwatchers.com/food/index.aspx
Two lovely Japanese eggplants came out of my brother's garden, and I cooked them using this recipe. I am at my mother's house, and cooking options were somewhat limited (we didn't make a grocery run). Most of the ingredients for this recipe were available, except I used dried ginger for the fresh (which was too bad, fresh ginger would have made this recipe sing and would have provided better balance), and we skipped the scallions.
I prepared the eggplant in the broiler. It took about 15 minutes for it to cook, but it came out very tender, with a slight char. I think this recipe has potential, and a sprinkle of sesame seeds would be another good option.
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Weber's Charcoal Grilling: The Art of Cooking with Live Fire
By Jamie Purviance
Sunset Books - 2007
A surprising dish! My DH received this cookbook for Christmas, and now that its grilling weather, he was itching to get the briquettes burning. However my daughter and I are being strict vegetarians for a month, so he settled on preparing this dish.
These look so innocent - but when you bite into them - bang! The wasabi packs quite a punch.
Its a lot of cheese and sour cream and starch -- not diet food -- but tasty. These would be a lot of fun to bring to a outdoor party.
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My DH prepared this for dinner - amazing flavor and texture! This dish uses charcoal-grilled chicken (breasts are suggested, but as usual for us, we opted for thighs), lots of cashews, bean sprouts, carrots, and a fantastic sauce.
Many restaurants try to prepare something this delicious, but miss; this recipe is the real deal.
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Simple dish - asparagus is cooked on the grill (be careful not to lose them through the grate), and then garnished with a balsamic reduction (not prepared on the grill). Tasted great, but its not really improved by cooking on the grill. Nevertheless, a useful recipe, and friendly for someone without a kitchen. I prepared the balsamic reduction in my electric frying pan.
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Firm-fleshed white fish (we used "rock fish") is given a spicy rub, and cooked on the grill. It is then served with a fresh salsa. We've made this a couple times. The salsa is a really nice addition, but its still a fine dish without it.
Fish cooks quickly, so the cook needs to be super attentive.
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Father's day request was hamburgers -- and this recipe looked interesting because it had one mix in a spice set reminiscent of preparing a BBQ sauce -- chili powder, paprika (I used half smoked and half regular), celery seed, cumin, etc. As I write this, I realize that I forgot to add the brown sugar. The other item of interest is that the recipe tells you to form the burgers with the center inch a bit thinner than the rest (3/4 inch but 1/2 inch in the center) - this is because ground beef tends to swell up on the grill. The burgers were shaped perfectly, and the spice mixture elevated the dish.
Happily, this is easy to make with no kitchen. Cannot find my mortar and pestle, but have learned that one can simply chop cumin seeds to release their flavor.
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A perfect and somewhat casual dinner. The salmon receives a rub, incubates with it, and then is grilled over the coals. To accompany it, the book provides recipe for a salad of zucchini, cukes, and tomatoes, nicely spiced.
Despite having the flu, this tasted great to me. Perfectly cooked by DH.
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This produced a delicious pork rib, though the recipe would benefit from more clear instructions on grill temperature - or meat temperature as the cooking progresses.
The recipe includes a rub (delicious), a mop (applied during cooking), and BBQ sauce (also delicious). The ribs came out looking drop-dead gorgeous, and the aroma and flavor were spot on. However, ours was done cooking in what the recipe would say was only 2/3 the amount of time. Perhaps a charcoal grill is different from an oven, and we should have used fewer briquettes? Perhaps the meat would have been more tender and more flavorful with slower cooking, but the flavor of these brought no complaints. Prepared by my DH and my DD (dear daughter).
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Website: Waitrose Cooking and Recipes
www.waitrose.com/food/cookingandrecipes/index.aspx
Confusing instructions, but the final result was quite nice. A complex sauce is prepared while chunks of salmon marinade in red pepper flakes, garlic, and salt. The salmon chunks are then tossed into the sauce, and 5 minutes later you are ready to serve.
The confusing part was that many of the spice amounts were listed as "1 x 1/2 tsp", and it wasn't clear if this meant 1/2 tsp, or 1 1/2 tsp. I went with the smaller amount, and found the sauce to be pleasantly spiced.
There was a bit too much sauce for the amount of salmon, I served it with quinoa, but a crusty bread might have been better for sopping it up.
My first attempt at an Ottolenghi recipe, and I will certainly seek out more.
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Waffles: Sweet & Savory Recipes for Every Meal
By Tara Duggan
Weldon Owen - 2012
I am always on the lookout for yeast-raised waffle recipes, so I borrowed this book from the library. Big dissapointment; the waffles came out soggy regardless of how long I cooked them, and the batter was way too thick. I added an additional 2T milk and 2T oil, and that improved them somewhat. Tasted too salty and poor internal texture.
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The Very Best Of Recipes for Health: 250 Recipes and More from the Popular Feature on NYTimes.com
By Martha Rose Shulman
Rodale Books - 2010
Its hard to give a "3" to any pizza recipe, because after all, its pizza, right?
This is another pizza without a sauce - it is fairly simple, rosemary, garlic, potatoes, and some cheese.
I've prepared Jim Lahey's potato pizza, and that is my basis for comparison. In the Jim Lahey recipe, you put slices of raw potato on the pizza, and it takes a little while to bake (20 minutes). This potato pizza, though, you first boil the potatoes. For me, the potatoes were difficult to slice thinly after cooking, and even after 17 minutes in a 500˚F oven, they were somewhat watery. The pizza was still very edible (judging by its 2 hr half-life in our refrigerator), but if you are after a potato pizza, I'd try the Lahey potato pizza, linked above.
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Very fresh and bright tasting! This salsa is like a marriage between guacamole and a regular tomato-based salsa, and what a happy marriage it is!
Red onion is soaked in cold water for a bit to mellow it out, minced, added to diced tomatoes (I used four or five different types from my garden), diced peppers (again I used peppers from my garden), avocado, and cilantro. A bit of lime juice and salt, and that is it.
I'm not much of one for chips, and this chunky salsa easily made little mountains on each chip. This was perfect - mostly the well rounded flavors of fresh produce, but with a definite corn crunch.
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Quick, easy, and very seasonal.
A raw tomato sauces is prepared first by chopping tomatoes, basil, and garlic, and adding balsamic vinegar and olive oil, and then letting it sit at least 30 minutes. This mixture smelled heavenly. You then add chickpeas (a can is OK, I used freshly prepared).
The recipe specifies fusilli or farfalle pasta. I used what I had on hand - a combination of ziti and elbow macaroni, and it worked fine.
You simply cook the pasta, then toss with the raw "sauce", and add some cheese (Parmesan or feta, we used Parmesan).
With great tomatoes available, this is a good dish to make now (summer). We doubled or tripled the basil, because its exploding in my garden.
Kids didn't care for the chickpeas, but by including them this dish makes for a nutritionally complete dinner. Personally, I just loved them.
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Too runny!
I started with equal parts roma and heirloom tomatoes (picture shows the beginning of cooking). The recipe recommends cooking for about 18-20 minutes for Romas, longer if your tomatoes are really juicy. I cooked mine for an hour!
I borrowed two food mills to try out with tomatoes. I put the sauce through one mill - but it only extracted juice and left most of the pulp. So 13-daughter and I transferred the pulp to an old-fashioned mill with a big wood roller. 13-daughter got alot more pulp out, and this time the the skin and seeds were dry!
Nevertheless, the sauce was still very thin. I cooked it another 15 minutes, but with two starving teenagers, I had to get it on to the table. Even if this had been soup, it would have been too thin.
BUT - The flavor was amazing.
My recommendation - if you make this, go through the trouble of peeling the tomatoes. You can then have a somewhat chunky sauce.
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I liked the idea of this dish more than what I produced. Garlic and basil are ground in the food processor, then almonds added and ground up. Finally, the blanched tomatoes are added and coarsely chopped. Then, with food processor running, you add a bit of olive oil, and then salt to taste.
The recipe called for 3-6 large garlic cloves; I used 4 but wished I had only used 1 or 2. The garlic was a strongly dominant flavor. I also found that when you add the olive oil at the end, it chopped my tomatoes more than I had wanted.
So - do try this - but be careful with the garlic, and add the olive oil before it is the texture you want.
I wanted to rate this 3 1/2, but when down to 3 based on its unattractive color. However, perhaps I should have raised it to 4 because those almonds add so much goodness.
We served this over whole wheat spaghetti.
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Thick and rich, a bit chunky and with an amazing flavor - this soup could redefine tomato soup.
My kids, who are accustomed to campbell's tomato soup, were not very excited when I told them what was on the menu for today. But one taste, and they were hooked.
The tomatoes (mine were home-growm heirloom varieties) are broiled till the skin turns black, turned over, and broiled some more. Garlic and onion round out the flavors, and the soup is thickened by adding some hearty bread (which disintegrates and just adds body).
2 sprigs of basil were called for - but I probably used 1/4C of chopped (we have a lot of basil in the garden).
Instead of serving with croutons, I served this with whole grain bread, toasted, and with a bit of cheese melted over the top.
This soup came together surprisingly quickly - maybe just over an hour. And the next day - it tasted even better. The pure flavors of summer. This is a soup recipe to save and treasure.
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Creamy steel-cut oats! I love this grain, but tend to not prepare it because of its fairly long cook time.
In this recipe, you mix milk with water (1:1), and do a long cook (2x15 minutes). After the first 15 minutes, you add some dry fruit and sweetner. I added raisins, but held off on the sweet till the end. Then I added about 1 T maple syrup.
You are also instructed to add fresh fruit - so I added half a peach.
I like creamy hot cereals - and the addition of milk at the beginning made this richer than versions cooked in water.
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This recipe yielded thick fluffy pancakes.
The flour was 2/3 whole wheat, 1/3 all purpose - but by using buttermilk, baking soda, and baking powder, they were rather light, and nobody complained. The recipe prepared enough for four light eaters.
The recipe called for blueberries to be added while cooking; we didn't have any and didn't miss 'em.
As usual, 13-daughter ate hers au naturale, but my DH used a generous dose of maple syrup. Both were happy!
One note - I used butter in the pan to cook them, and it imparted a very good buttery flavor (but made them slightly less healthy).
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I have been searching for the perfect vinaigrette, and this recipe comes close. Two vinegars are combined (though the choice is left up to the cook). I used the recommended 2T sherry vinegar and 1T balsamic. And it uses 6T olive oil. The flavor is amped up by Dijon mustard and a garlic clove.
Some of the other vinaigrette dressings I've made recently have been too mustard-y, the 1 tsp mustard called for here was just about right.
The garlic clove is left intact, but is sliced for more surface area. The cook is instructed to leave it in for about a day.
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A lovely flavored french toast - and by serving with fresh raspberries just catapulted it to the top.
I made 1 1/2 batches (3 eggs), and it was perfect for the four of us. I used the optional fresh nutmeg, and the addition of vanilla made this really amazing.
We tried this with whole wheat sandwich bread (see picture 2) and with a whole grain artisan bread. Of course the artisan bread was more attractive, but I liked the whole wheat sandwich bread version more than I expected.
We put a very small amount of maple syrup with the raspberries, but in all honesty, it probably didn't need it. The raspberries were some amazing locals from my CSA.
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These soft taco cook up quickly and are very flavorful. Its a simple filling - sautéed onion and mushrooms with a bit of garlic. Chipotle chiles in adobo sauce are called for in the recipe, but I had to skip that ingredient as my last tin was nowhere to be found. I think the chipotle would have really made this outstanding!
I served these on corn tortillas, softened on an open flame of my gas grill (thank you to Rick Bayless for that trick), and with this salsa from the chicken soft tacos.
The simple mushroom filling could easily be changed - e.g. add red bell peppers, its a versatile dish and quick enough for a mid-week dinner.
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The salsa for these tacos is the star of this recipe. A delightful fresh salsa, it is prepared with tomatoes, corn, cilantro, onion, jalapeno, and lime juice - such an amazing fresh taste!
The instructions tell you to prepare poached shredded chicken breasts. I decided to take the easy route, though, and purchased a roasted chicken instead.
We served these on corn torillas with feta cheese.
The biggest surprise here was that both kids complained that it wasn't hot enough! My babies are growing up.
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A lovely and filling dish - with the flavor of summer. I used half yukon gold and half red-skinned new potatoes, unskinned. And I used a combination of different tomato types - some roma, but mostly heirlooms of various kinds.
I followed Zosia's advice and didn't use the rosemary twigs. Instead, I minced fresh rosemary leaves, and sprinkled them over the top of the tomatoes.
The gruyere is such a flavorful cheese, it really set off the dish. I heeded Zosia's advice, and added the cheese only in the last 10 minutes. That got it melty, and then the broiled made it look good.
As Zosia said, relatively little effort for a large amount of tasty food. Four of us ate 1/2 of this dish - but we also had soup and kale.
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Kale arrived in my CSA this week. I also have a large patch of kale in my garden. I generally just feed it to my chickens (all that calcium is good for their eggs).
I've never tried this approach to cooking kale, so took the opportunity to prepare this recipe. I used all lacinato kale (not curly kale). I only blanched for 3 minutes, then into the ice bath. It was impressive how much water could be squeezed out.
The kale tasted ok - not everyone would eat it, but it was fairly tolerable. But it wasn't good enough for me to freeze awa blanched kale for the winter...
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So easy - just rolled oats and almonds, very lightly toasted by baking for 10 minutes.
The key to this, though, is what you add. I've never heard of using grated apple in my museli, but it added the needed moisture and turned this "horse food" into a delightful breakfast.
In addition to the apple, I added dates and raisins. No need for sugar - but a bit of skim milk finished it up perfectly.
This will be worth a repeat.
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Crunchy, and with a whole spectrum of flavors. This was a salad to savor and its a recipe I will definitely try again.
The salad includes shredded chicken, red bell pepper, a Serrano pepper, cucumber, scalions, and mung bean sprouts. It took a while for me to find the right sprouts, but boy was it great. The texture was just perfect. And the flavor was elevated by the inclusion of both mint and cilantro.
The dressing was surprisingly good. Its a peanut butter based dressing, seasoned with fish sauce, ginger, lime juice, and buttermilk added some welcome lightness.
A perfect combination. Sorry - no picture - I was too tired. This salad, though, revived me.
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We loved the clever combination of goat cheese and walnuts on this pizza. By mixing the goat cheese with the chopped walnuts, I found it easier to get small pieces, which helped me to spread the goat cheese around. The recipe resulted in a generous amount of mushrooms, and the flavor that came from the thyme which is sprinkled on the crust added a lovely note.
The modest dressing on the arugula helped the pizza overall, but the consensus at my house was that a balsamic reduction would have been even better.
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We found this soup to be only OK. I really love eating barley, and also mushrooms. However, the soup seemed bland, despite the herbs and parm rind used for the broth. To my palate, the kale made the broth somewhat sour. It felt like a healthy thing to eat, and I did have two bowls, but it I'm unlikely to prepare this again.
In the interest of full disclosure, I had no dry porcini mushrooms, and perhaps using those would have given the broth the rich mushroom depth I was looking for. Instead, I used dried shitake.
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Salty and cheesy - this dish was a big surprise. Kale came from my garden, and leeks from the farmers market made this a mostly local dish (but the soba did come from Japan).
Kale is boiled for 4 minutes, and leeks are sauteed in oil, butter, and with slivered sage. Kale and sage are mixed, and some of the soba cooking liquid is added.
I weighted out the cheese and was surprised at how much there was. 2 oz of Parmesan is a big pile! Add another 2 oz of gruyere, and it is really cheesy.
Now I might have preferred half the cheese, my kids and husband loved this - probably because of that luscious cheese. Husband said it was the best kale he had ever had. We'll keep this recipe around - it is basic enough you could easily take it in different directions.
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This wholesome soup will give your kitchen a wonderful aroma. White beans are soaked, and then cooked with sautéed onions and garlic. Water is suggested as the broth, and so I added extra bay leaves and herbs to give it sufficient depth of flavor. When the beans are cooking, you then sautée leeks and more garlic, and then diced butternut squash. The whole lot is then combined, and cooked. I found it took a bit more time than suggested for the beans to become falling-apart soft, but that is likely due to my altitude (salt lake city).
I used my stick blender (my normal blender got broken), and the result was a slightly orange smooth soup. It is a beautiful color.
Garlic croutons are suggested as a garnish, and they were a perfect accompaniment. Crunchy and strongly flavored, a perfect foil for the creamy mild soup was great. To make the croutons, I didn't follow the suggested recipe. Instead, we happened to have Costco roasted garlic bread; I buttered it with a butter-garlic-shallot mixture left from a different project yesterday. I broiled these, and then cut into small cubes.
I love butternut squash, and was a bit disappointed that the sweet flavor seemed to disappear in this soup. The soup was good, but if you want to showcase butternut squash, you might be better off with something else.
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This was a passable pizza dough. I liked the flavor imparted by the whole wheat flour, but its texture was not as good as dough made with all whte flour. My basis for comparison is this Mark Bittman food processor pizza dough. The Bittman recipe has a better texture and a delightful flavor. This whole wheat pizza dough has good flavor but its texture is not as good.
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Foolproof? I've been putting this recipe to the test by making foolish mistakes. At a minimum, this is a very forgiving recipe.
The first time I prepared this, I accidentally doubled the water. I cooked it about 30 minutes longer, and it did eventually thicken up. The second time I prepared it, I forgot to adjust the oven temperature and baked it at 425 instead of 350˚F. As you might expect, it cooked faster - about 35 minutes instead of 50.
I'm not a connoisseur of polenta, but the result seemed reasonable creamy. I served it with tomatoes roasted last august and a bit of pecorino. Very satisfying.
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Superb pancakes, these are healthy from the oatmeal and whole wheat. My daughter (14) has a bit of a bad opinion of whole wheat, but she admitted that if she were blindfolded, she would not have known.
Be forewarned, this batter is intended to sit on the counter for an hour before cooking. Ours sat for about 30 - 40 minutes, and cooked up fine. They also performed well in our cast iron pan (no additional oil required).
We didn't add the suggested 1.5C frozen blueberries.
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An excellent super-fast dinner. Canned chick peas, sautéed onions, spinach, spices, and tomato paste combine to make an excellent topping. We put it on bread, but it also would have been great on rice or another grain.
I substituted Aleppo pepper for the cayenne, but otherwise followed the instructions.
Even the teenagers came back for a seconds.
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My DH prepared this as an appetizer for cocktails with our neighbors, one of whom is lactose and gluten intolerant. The pecorino cheese was fine, and the can of non-brined artichoke hearts located in an Italian market ($7/can!), were superb. Very delicious, and just the right thing.
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Nice concept, but the recipe has a couple problems. The salad is pretty simple - a couple types of rice, some lightly steamed asparagus, herbs, walnuts, and a dressing. I prepared as described, except I doubled the asparagus.
The dressing called for 1/2 C of oil, and as I was adding it, I became skeptical. I added ~2/3 of the dressing, and the salad felt quite greasy. I didn't care for the dressing on the day I prepared this, but as leftovers for my lunch, the flavors had melded, and it was better.
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This is a good basic soup that could be easily modified for other flavor profiles. The cumin and coriander gave the soup a lovely flavor, and I purposely added only a small amount of curry so it wouldn't compete. I also used less tomato than called for, and like Zosia, pureed with a stick blender at the end. Even my soup-adverse family enjoyed this one.
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Quick and delicious. My only complaint is that the recipe claims the tofu will brown in 3-5 minutes. I drained my tofu for more than a hour, and still it didn't brown after 10 minutes! But if you are OK with white creamy tofu, this comes together quickly, with a nice ginger and sesame flavor (sesame seeds as well as sesame oil). Its an easy mid-week dinner, and it was a perfect 3 servings.
My daughter said she could eat this every day.
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A spicy and hearty chili - and you won't miss the meat. This recipe uses the slow simmered black beans, and turns them into chili by the addition of more onion, more garlic, tomatoes, peppers, and cilantro. I used only one of the two chipotle peppers in adobo, and I seeded it carefully. Despite this, and the addition of an extra 2C of black beans, this is almost too spicy for me.
But I am a bit of a spice wimp.
Regardless of the heat, the flavor is excellent, and not masked by the heat.
Note linked on-line recipe.
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Vegetarian Times Fast and Easy: Great Food You Can Make in Minutes (Cooking)
By Vegetarian Times Magazine
Wiley - 2008
This is an unusual Waldof salad, and I think if I had all the ingredients on hand, it would have rated a 5. I'll probably revisit this recipe, to try it the way it is written.
This waldorf includes apples, pears, celery, toasted pecans, golden raisins and celery -- a more diverse set of fruit/veggies than the waldorf of my youth. The dressing called for reducing apple cider, and mixing it with yogurt and cinnamon. That would have been awesome, but I had no cider on hand. Instead, I tried to make up for the sweetness by sprinkling some sugar and cinnamon on the fruit, and topping with plain yogurt.
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Crunchy and flavorful - and quick! These took maybe 5 minutes to prepare the ingredients, and another 5 to put it together. The crunch of the peas, and their sweetness, played off the lemon zest in a wonderful way. Toasted almonds added that last piece of perfection.
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A nice main dish, but the sauce was way too heavy on the peanut butter. I couldn't taste the lemongrass or the coconut milk.
We used tofu in place of tempeh (suggested in the recipe). Red bell pepper, snow peas, and green onion were sauteed, as was the tofu. Sauce added and cooked to thicken, then served over whole wheat noodles (or other pasta or rice).
14-daughter prepared this and she did an excellent job. It tasted very nice.
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Website: Vegetarian Times
This might be a perfect squash soup. A good ginger/curry flavor (on the mild side), and balanced with a bit of orange juice and nutmeg.
I had a lovely Kuri squash purchased at the final farmers market of the season, and searched widely to find the right recipe for it. Here, the squash is quartered, roasted (with onion and garlic), then roasted. The soup is prepared by blending these with minced fresh ginger, curry powder, etc. The splash of orange juice at the end added an extra dimension. Just amazing.
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Website: Vegetarian Times
Surprisingly delicious! This recipe's major ingredients are sweet potatoes, red bell peppers, black beans, mango and cilantro. The sweetness was a nice contrast to the slight spice from the jalepeno. Next time, I would use more jalepeno, and maybe cumin?
This was also really beautiful.
Happily, I came home to find that my vegetarian daughter had decided to watch the world cup! She was happy to report on it while eating this Brazilian-ish recipe.
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Vegetarian Epicure
By Anna Thomas
Vintage - 1972
This is a very simple recipe, but I think it has one fault. It requires that you first saute onions and garlic, then add 2 lbs of spinach, put the lid on, and cook it down. This causes a lot of liquid to come out of the spinach, but there is no step to drain this liquid. Therefore, when you add the eggs, its very wet. I cooked this an extra 10 minutes, and it was still runny.
Oh well... still ate it.
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For the simplicity of this soup's preparation, it was a very decent soup. This soup takes relatively little effort beyond soaking the beans the night before. The flavor comes from an unlikely combination of green chili peppers, Worchestershire sauce, and and tomato paste. At the end, you added shell macaroni, and the final texture is a lovely combination of the smooth silky pasta and the more sturdy garbanzos.
Although I felt that this soup could stand having a bit more zip, my kids just cannot get enough of it. Family ratings were 5's from the kids, and 3's (good but not stunning) from the adults.
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Very simple, and it was a delicious, cheesey side with the tang of yogurt/sour cream.
I used home-made yogurt, drained slightly to thicken, and Jarlesberg cheese (any mellow cheese was suggested as an alternate).
I would have benefit from more instruction on pan size, potato weight, and I found the cheese/yogurt mix was very thick - and so difficult to spread. Nonetheless, I muddled through OK. I can easily see making this one again.
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This is a simple vegetarian broth, and a great reminder to save those valuable potato peels. I made a batch tonight with potato, sweet potato, and carrot peels. Added an onion and stick of celery. It looks a bit dark and murky, but after adding salt and pepper the flavor is right on - very nice. I look forward to the patience to turn this into soup. In the mean time, its headed to my freezer.
The other thing to note - usually my scraps go to the compost. I will still compost, but this cooking probably makes the composting go even faster.
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This is my tried-and-true corn bread recipe, the one I've used for the past decade. Over the past six months, though, I've been testing cornbread recipes from other books, and so I thought it would be interesting to revisit this one.
This recipe differs from some by having a larger amount of baking powder, and slightly more flour than cornmeal. I prepared it using polenta (coarse corn meal) instead of regular grind, and olive oil in place of melted butter.
The result was very delicious. However, it is a bit sweet, and perhaps my tastes now favor a more savory bread.
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