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More (vegan) Cooking in Bushwick

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After a few years off, I found myself visiting the ‘ol home state not once but twice in late 2012. I’d been perusing those tempting fare alert emails, talking snow withdrawal with J. Legume, and the next thing I knew, we had our hands on some promotional airfare and another stay in what we like to … Continue reading »

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birthday lasagna

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In the after-math of a year that included organizing a culinary competition and that con thing, I didn’t even let myself contemplate my 29th birthday’s existence until mere days before. I kept things calm with a tiny handful of friends, cocktails, cupcakes, and lasagna (since my inner hermit is also Italian). A Story about Rice … Continue reading »

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Pesto-stuffed Chickpea Cutlet Balls & Television

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So, I’m a television fanatic. It hails back to my days of sharing a bedroom with my younger siblings and quietly watching The X-Files while sitting a foot away from the  television screen (seeing both films on opening day), and evolved into obsession via the same small television set with the first episode of Buffy … Continue reading »

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Sunday Supper: Patak’s Madras Chickpea Curry

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I came to the soul-tingling realization yesterday in New Seasons, that if I allow myself to buy quality curry pastes for Thai cooking, I could try the same, just once, for Indian cuisine.  Perhaps it would prove handy and delicious over lazy and under-spiced, right? Ridiculously, I had stocked up on various curry-related spices earlier in … Continue reading »

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sweet & savoury & colorful

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The Sweet: White Chocolate Chip & Orange Biscotti Recipe modified from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar. White Chocolate Chips from Pangea’s VeganSweets line, via Sidecar in Seattle.   The Savoury: Roasted Chickpeas with tamari, nutritional yeast, olive oil, cayenne, lemon juice, cumin and smoked paprika. The Savoury & Colorful: Cornmeal Crusted Tofu with maple … Continue reading »

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Yellow Curry & Butternut Squash Hummus (or Sweet Potato)

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Imagine if President Obama were vegan! He would look like this…. Political Hummus Creation and Image Credit: Sabra Hummus and Kirk Rademaker Actually, I simply don’t have an accompanying photo for this recipe, and I googled “hummus monster” and the hummus John McCain turned up, and I went from there. Onto the dip! I first … Continue reading »