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Roasted Broccoli with Feta Cheese
Things have been so overwhelmingly busy these days, I haven’t had time to even think. About anything. So meals that are simple and quick to throw together are really a must. It’s always easier to come up with a quick fix when you’ve got good ingredients on hand. Luckily, this week I received a bunch of beautiful broccoli in my produce box. Even more luckily – my kid LOVES broccoli. I…
Tres Leches Cake for Cinco de Mayo
I published this over at my other blog, life, in recipes a few months ago, and I thought it might be nice to share over here for everyone’s upcoming Cinco de Mayo celebrations. Do you like cake and ice-cream? Do you especially like it when your cake and ice-cream get all jumbled up together and become a moist, gooey, tasty concoction? Well, then, this is just the cake for you! It’s like your cak…
Simple (almost) Summer Salad
As much as I really wanted to try out Dot’s frank-and-burger loaf recipe for dinner tonight (I mean, yum, right?), I opted to go a slightly simpler and (more than slightly) healthier route. I received some lovely avocados, tomatoes and corn in my produce box this week, and all of them were in need of being used, so I decided to throw together this quick and tasty salad as a side with my stuffed poblano pep…
Risotto con Funghi
This is an elegantly simple dish to make, but I don’t do it very often because it is by no means good for you. I know there are ways to make it more health-conscious (less butter and cheese, no cream, etc.), but I just can’t bring myself to adulterate it like that. So, I only make it a couple of times a year and I enjoy it all the more because of the infrequency of the indulgence. We enjoyed this with a lov…
Food for thought….
I subscribe to all manner of blogs, both through my feed reader and through Facebook. Today I got a message on my Facebook wall for the Super Healthy Kids Blog featuring an article about 10-cent breakfast. Obviously, I couldn’t pass it up! In the article, the blogger discusses her struggles with staying within her monthly grocery budget: Healthy eating does not have to be expensive. And this next mo…
How to make fancy chocolate curls
I needed something fancy to decorate the equally fancy chocolate pie I was making for Valentine’s day. I really like the look of a mound of chocolate curls haphazardly sprinkled over the top of a dessert, so I gathered my ingredients and quickly threw some together. Ingredients 2 oz. semi-sweet chocolate 1 teaspoon vegetable shortening (I have done this with organic, non-hydrogenated shorteni…
Family Recipes: Caramel Frosting
If you’ve ever asked a family member for a favorite recipe, or perused your grandmother’s cookbooks, marveling at the notes she’s taken in the margins and the bits of dried-on ingredients left as artifacts of her pursuits, then you know there’s a certain comfort to be taken in preserving the heritage that is contained therein. The recipe I’m sharing today holds a specia…
Cook with your kids: Homemade pizza
One of the best ways to get your kids to try new things is to get them involved in the process. Let them see where their food comes from, or how it’s made, and I guarantee they’ll be excited about eating it. My four-year-old got to help plant our family garden last summer, and he loved eating the veggies that came out of it as the summer went on. Sugar snap peas were his absolute favorite (we almost…
Easy Homemade Falafel
When I was in graduate school in Chapel Hill, NC, I lived right outside of downtown Chapel Hill. I was pretty much within walking/biking distance of the campus, and I spent a lot of my time in the downtown area, frequenting the many restaurants and shops on Franklin Street. One of my favorite little eateries was a Greek/Mediterranean place that had the best hummus, greek salads, falafel and baklava. I wou…
Whole-wheat Sandwich Bread
Of course you can buy your sandwich bread, and most of the time I do. Occasionally though (and more often now that I’m beginning to realize what sorts of additives and preservatives they use to increase shelf-life) I like to make mine at home. Besides, it’s so simple and there’s really nothing better than the smell of fresh-baked bread straight from the oven. This recipe is an adaptat…
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