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Spiced Maple Roasted Yams + Leek and Mushroom Wild Rice + Tangerine Ginger...
Anyone who has ever had a significant other to share the holidays with knows that the first time away from home for Thanksgiving is a little strange. The gravy tastes different, and mom’s apple-raisin...
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Caramelized Onion Dip with Salt and Cracked Pepper Potato Chips
‘Tis the season of ugly sweater parties and open houses, online shopping, and mulled cider. Weekend nights are hot commodities, and booking up fast. Where there are holiday parties, there are sure to...
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“Anytime” Frittata with Chorizo, Potato, and Feta
Three days ago, I made my first frittata. Three days ago I ate my first frittata. Three days ago, I burned the heck out of my hand on the handle of my super-heated sauté pan making a frittata…but...
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Roasted Tomatillo-Chile Negro Salsa for Canning
Every morning, I step into my flowered gardening boots, and take 23 steps to water 14 tomato plants growing along the back fence. Luca follows me, alternately stretching and shaking out her bedraggled...
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Slow Cooker Mulling Spiced Applesauce
Every Sunday, I get out of bed earlier than the mister (teacher schedules are hard to break, even on the weekend!) and pad across the hallway, in my slippers, into the kitchen. I delight in these...
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Honey-Chipotle Sweet Potato Soup
Sometimes when I can’t think of anything to write, I don’t write anything at all. I could expound upon my writers block, but instead, I thought I’d just start writing. I have grand plans of things to...
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Quick Bite: Pan con Tomate
You know those days where you forget to set your alarm clock, and when you get out of bed and hour late, your hair is sleep-sculpted into a style reminiscent to Flock of Seagulls? Then, you can’t find...
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Fragrant Dried Herb Salts
I’m forever trying to preserve the best of what the garden offers. and can’t bear to see my frost-bitten little babes giving me sad eyes from the compost pile. At this very moment, jars of charred...
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Spiced Apple Croustades
Thanksgiving is a day where you can eat dessert during dinner (sweet potato pie, anyone?), and still eat bonus dessert after dinner is all over. It’s a time to eat slowly, and together, with friends...
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Lucky Black-Eyed Pea, Turkey Sausage and Kale Soup (with a vegan variation)
Today’s soup is the definition of slow food. It’s meant for one of those days where you can give the ingredients time to transform--roast and caramelize, lazily simmer... It’s best to be made while you...
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Lemony Steam-Roasted Artichokes with Garlic and Cherry Tomatoes
I first saw an artichoke plant while wandering through a botanical garden in Spain. Have you ever seen one? Quite a prickly beast, and I do mean beast! Since then, I’ve become obsessed with the idea...
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Tomatillo-Veggie (or Chicken) Posole
I broke out my fall garb this week, and taught my students a valuable lesson while wearing a cozy wrap/scarf that the mister got for me in Amsterdam. A scarf is just a socially acceptable way to wear...
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Spiced Maple-Glazed Sweet Potatoes, Apples and Butternuts with Caramelized...
This recipe isn’t just for Thanksgiving. As soon as the leaves start to turn, I start craving warm spiced flavors. The squash, potatoes and apples are first covered and baked, to soften them up....
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Wild Mushroom Wild Rice with Caramelized Onions
Rice, gone wild! Double wild! Mushroom madness! All this Thanksgiving recipe testing and eating has put me into a food-induced euphoria. Wild two times in one title is two too many wilds for one...
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Lucky Black-Eyed Pea, Turkey Sausage and Kale Soup (with a vegan variation)
Welcome to the first week of the new year. I don’t know about you, but the mister and I ate well these past couple months! This time, I don’t mean well in the nutritional sense, I mean well in the...
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Lemony Steam-Roasted Artichokes with Garlic and Cherry Tomatoes
I first saw an artichoke plant while wandering through a botanical garden in Spain. Have you ever seen one? Quite a prickly beast, and I do mean beast! Since then, I’ve become obsessed with...
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Pumpkin Spice Steamers (vegan, gf)
Happy Thanksgiving dear spoonies! I couldn’t let this day of friends and feasting pass by without wishing you a very happy one! I’ve been nose to nose with some challenges this fall, and I say the...
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Tomatillo-Veggie (or Chicken) Posole
I broke out my fall garb this week, and taught my students a valuable lesson while wearing a cozy wrap/scarf that the mister got for me in Amsterdam. A scarf is just a socially acceptable way to wear...
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Spiced Maple-Glazed Sweet Potatoes, Apples and Butternuts with Caramelized...
The way we’ve celebrated Thanksgiving throughout history has both changed and stayed the same. What if, instead of the venison and freshly harvested vegetables the Native Americans and the pilgrims...
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Wild Mushroom Wild Rice with Caramelized Onions
Rice, gone wild! Double wild! Mushroom madness! All this Thanksgiving recipe testing and eating has put me into a food-induced euphoria. Wild two times in one title is two too many wilds for one...
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