a salad a day

One of my pet peeves about meatless food is the assumption that all vegetarians eat is salad. If I offered a meat-eater a salad for dinner, they would laugh at me, yet they expect me to eat what they mock. The major point of the complaint is asking restaurants if they have vegetarian options and […]

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csa share 5 and a movie

One of my personal goals for the new year is to watch my Netflix movies in a more timely manner. Netflix probably loves me as I am their favorite type of customer: the kind who sits on a movie for a month or more before watching it, still paying the same monthly fee. Finally, I […]

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braised radishes

In order to come back down from the sugar high caused by various holiday desserts, I needed some veggies in my life. Conveniently, I pick up a large amount of them every other week from my CSA, and I had some produce tucked in my crisper that had been forgotten about in a haze of […]

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lovely lemon bundt cake

As my husband was preparing to go to work for a semi-overnight 12-hour shift on New Year’s Eve, I had a huge dilemma to solve: should I bake cookies, or a cake? I know, it’s a tough life I lead. But hey, if I was going to spend New Year’s Eve alone at home (ok, […]

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goodbye 2009

While I’m not a resolution-making kind of girl, I do like to think about where I’ve been and where I want to go. Five years ago tonight, my now-husband proposed to me as fireworks went off over the ocean in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I, naturally, smacked him in the arm and called him a jackass […]

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roasted pear creme brulee tart

On the plane to Minnesota for Thanksgiving, I took my “double holiday issue” of Cooking Light to read. That was a mistake because it just made me hungry. Also, I would like to start celebrating Hanukkah. That menu looks AWESOME. Anyway, one of the recipes I flagged immediately was for a Roasted Pear Creme Brulee […]

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simple gifts

It wasn’t our usual Christmas this year, but we had family, food, and festivities. We also had presents! Unsurprisingly, I got a nice stack of books. Mmmm, books. A few for reading: Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris, and Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger And […]

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smoked salmon eggs benedict, part 3: hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise is often listed as one of the five “mother sauces” in cooking. I would also say it is one of the most delicious sauces in cooking. Kids won’t eat asparagus, broccoli or Brussels sprouts? They will if you cover them in Hollandaise. You can dip the leaves of steamed artichokes in it, or top […]

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smoked salmon eggs benedict, part 2: poached eggs

Poached eggs are one of those things that I am always surprised when people think they are hard to make. They are not. I eat them for breakfast almost every day — and my cholesterol is just fine, thank you. The trick is to use fresh eggs. If you plan to poach eggs, try to […]

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smoked salmon eggs benedict, part 1: baking powder biscuits

One family tradition which my husband tries to apply to as many holidays as possible is having eggs Benedict for brunch. It used to be an Easter treat, then started expanding to Mother’s Day, birthdays that fell on weekends, then any Sunday we could find an excuse to eat brunch at home. Like being hungry. […]

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