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http://whatimcookingnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/exploring-quinoa-for-breakfast.html

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What I'm Cooking Now: Simple Squash Chowder

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When I lived in Mountain View, California, I used to patronize a little Mom and Pop Korean restaurant. The food was delicious, plentiful and inexpensive. One of the appetizers that dear daughter and I would often get as a meal was called Pa Jun - eggy pancakes flavored with minced scallions and served with a vinegar & soy sauce dipping sauce. Oftentimes, these pancakes were garnished with

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I think I've blogged before about my love affair with lentils. If not, well, suffice it to say that I adore lentils! I always have, even as a child. Don't ask me why, I just do. As with all great love affairs in history, I spend as much time as possible with my beloved. On Thursday night, I made rishta, a wonderful, homey, Lebanese lentil and spinach soup.My Lebanese mother-in-law was an

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For us Orthodox Christians, it is Great Lent, a season of preparation for Pascha, the Feast of Feasts, the touchstone and center of our spiritual year. We prepare ourselves by forgiveness of others, increasing our personal and corporate prayer, performing works of charity, and abstaining from sin, spiritual laziness, passions, and yes, certain foods. For a season, we become vegans: no flesh meats

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I have restarted my CSA - every two weeks I receive the "petite" box for $18. The last box contained a beautiful bunch of baby beets which I peeled and roasted together with carrots, a rutabaga, potatoes, a sweet potato and brussels sprouts. Oh yes.... very yummy, and very pretty too. I've blogged about roasted veggies before, so you know what to do. However, this left me with a bunch of

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Dear Daughter is coming home over Thanksgiving weekend (with a "friend" no less), and Philip's Fast (Advent for you non-Orthodox) begins today, so I wanted to start laying in a supply of yummy vegan foods in my freezer. The first thing I made were these yummy, south of the border flavored black bean patties. They are individually wrapped in my freezer, and just need a little bake in the toaster

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So.... I'm still experimenting with my handy dandy rice cooker, and this recipe is a keeper! Not only is it quick and easy, it is also beautiful and delicious! Alas, no photos because my camera is nowhere to be found, but trust me when I say it looks as beautiful as it tastes.I love paella. Its a comfort food from my childhood for me. When I was a child, my father drove my mother and me all the

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I treated myself to a new kitchen appliance for Mother's Day.Years ago, I loved my rice cooker, but I hated the clean up - everything crusted on the bottom and it was difficult to scrub it out. The more I scrubbed, the more things sticked. But... it cooked rice beautifully and it left my stove top free for other pots and pans. I don't know what happened to that rice cooker - in one of my moves

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I'm from New England, the land of chowders, which is fortunate, because I absolutely love chowder. Basically, a chowder is a soup which always contains milk, onions and potatoes, and is usually thickened with flour. Most people add seafood, like clams or crab or fish, or ham, but I like corn chowder best! Yes, corn chowder is my most favorite chowder. With all of the nondairy cream and milk

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My father, Edmour Joseph Babineau, died January 23, 2009, and tomorrow we will celebrate the traditional 40 day memorial (in greek: parastas, in slavonic: panikhida) for him at church. We Orthodox remember the dead at every service, and on specific "soul" Saturdays in Lent, but tomorrow is special. There are special prayers for the soul as it departs from the body at the moment of death, and we

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One thing I've learned about cooking is that you can never have too many carmelized onions! They are so very delicious that sometimes I eat them as a vegetable. I should have gone food shopping yesterday, but didn't want to brave the Saturday crowds, so I had a look in the fridge to see what I could put together. I had a lovely bunch of curly kale and a medium-sized rutabaga as well as a few

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Dear daughter and I have been hankering for some Indian food for a while, so tonight I made a simple meal. First I made the cabbage and carrots from a recipe by Madhur Jaffrey and let it sit at room temperature while DD made the Lebanese style rice and I made the dal.About the rice - I don't have a real recipe for this - I just do what my mother-in-law did. She was a really fantastic Lebanese

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Last weekend, some friends brought dinner over to my house and I was left with a lot of leftovers, including about 1 1/2 cups of southern style lima beans. Since dear daughter bemoaned the fact that we have absolutely NO dip left in the house last night, I decided to make a dip from the limas. Limas are really good for dips because they are quite mealy and soft, and because they firm when they

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Tonight we ate leftover Tuscan White Bean Soup with garlic bread for dinner, but we really, really wanted a nice dessert. Tonight is my rehearsal night for I Cantori, so I just couldn't spend much time cooking, so I offered my daughter a piece of fruit for dessert. No go. She wanted something a little less simple. I decided to broil two bosc pears until almost carmelized and provide a dip. Oh boy

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Sometimes you just want a nice soup with some garlic bread for dinner, don't you? I love soup - I could eat it every day. I had a few yellow crookneck squash sitting in my fridge, and I wanted soup, so I decided to make a white bean soup with them. Everything is cooked al dente, so that each spoonful bursts in your mouth with flavor. I just love this soup. Its even better

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This morning we were pretty hungry and wanted something really stick-to-your ribs good. After having a quick look in the fridge and pantry, I decided on some kind of hash browns. My mom always made homemade hash browns and I always do too, especially since they take just a couple of minutes to prep and taste so delicious!Hash Brown Scramble2 med sized russet potatoes, peeled, in 1/2 inch

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Have you ever roasted veggies? They are really delish. In fact, I think roasting veggies are my most favorite way of preparing them. I don't really have a recipe for roasted veggies but this is what I do.The size of the veggies is very important, because you want all your veggies to be ready at the same time. I quartered the small potatoes and cut larger potatoes in sixths. This balanced the

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Caponata and Muffaletta....... Don't be afraid of the odd sounding names or the long list of ingredients. These are quick and easy to make, and so very delicious that they will become favorites in your house.What is the difference, anyway? They are both delicious vegetable mixtures that are used as either a salad or a pickle, with Caponata being the Italian version and Muffaletta being the Cajun

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Sorry, no picture since I'm in the throes of unpacking after a move and my camera is..... somewhere......Years ago, my parents fell in love with a Basque restaurant in California's Central Valley. Everytime they were within a hundred miles, they would stop and eat, and then rave about the food to me, particularly the beans. Now is a good time to tell you that my father has always been crazy

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ME, I'm sorry to say. I've neglected all my blogs this year, but I plan on being back in the saddle, or should I say, back in front of the computer in the new year. Many of my faithful readers know that I own a rental house. Well, in April, I began eviction proceedings which took a very long time, and when I finally was able to regain possession of the house, the renters had totally trashed it

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The Vegan's 100 list was compiled by Hannah of Bittersweet . I found out about it from Bazu of Where's the Revolution a favorite Vegan blog I love to visit.Hannah states " News travels pretty fast in the blogosphere, and the latest craze that’s been showing up on food blogs far and wide has been The Omnivore’s Hundred, a list of 100 foods that all omnivores should eat at some point in their lives

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Once again I looked in the fridge and saw too many leftovers, just little dribs of this and that. Yes, it is time to make soup! Yesterday I put all the vegetable trimmings that I've been saving in the freezer in the crock pot, about a quart's worth, covered them with water, added some garlic, basil, red pepper flakes and salt, and let 'er rip all day on low. The house smelled heavenly and the

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This is real comfort food for me. I went home last Thanksgiving, and my cousin made this one evening since her future daughter-in-law is a vegetarian. It was delicious, because Roseanne is a wonderful cook, but I had such a feeling of "home" as I ate it in that kitchen where I had eaten it so many times as a child. There are many recipes for this; you can make it with canned beans or dried,

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I've been unpacking boxes in my garage; sometimes I find treasures and sometimes I scratch my head and ask myself, where did this stuff come from since it surely cannot be mine! Saturday evening was one of THOSE moments -- I found a very large box full of canned and packaged goods that never in a million years would I have bought. I know that the last year of my mother's life, she and Dad used to

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Back in the early 1980s, when Church of the Redeemer began serving vespers every Saturday evening, the choir began having dinner together afterwards every week, and eventually everyone would end up at my house for a movie or a game of trivial pursuit - and dessert with espresso! My 12 cup Bialetti stove top really got a work out! Those were very, very fun days. I never knew how many people would

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I got a recipe similar to this one years ago, and over the years, have played with it. No matter what I've done, it has remained a family favorite ever since. Its deceptively simple, but is delicious and makes a nice enough presentation to serve to company.Quick hint about timing: Put the water on to boil before you do anything else, then put the mushrooms in the oven, then get the broccoli going

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Yes, you read correctly. Vegan with a Vengeance is a new cookbook by Isa Chandra Moskowitz which is getting a lot of raves in vegan circles. In fact, one recipe of hers, Mashed Potatoes with Punk Rock Chickpea Gravy, is so popular, that I decided to try it today. Don't let the seemingly odd combination or long list of ingredients throw you - it is absolutely delicious! Something even an avowed

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Tonight is my rehearsal night for I Cantori, so I wanted a quick and easy dinner. I've got about half the pot of black bean soup sitting in the fridge, so I thought I would use some to make Cuban Black Beans and Rice. First, I got the rice cooking - I made our usual, "everyday" rice, which is one part of pasta sauteed in butter until toasted to two parts of rice to four parts of water. I normally

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When I was engaged, I spent a lot of time at my future mother-in-law's house, gobbling up all her exotic Lebanese food. She was one terrific cook! I clearly remember eating this dish for the first time - she cooked it so slow and so long that not only the onions, but also the green beans themselves were carmelized. Yummy. This is the most simple dish ever - you'll ask yourself, now why didn't *I*

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Today, I felt like eating black bean soup. Over the years, I've perfected my recipe for black bean soup. I started with a recipe from the Westin Hotel in San Franciso, who make very delicious black bean soup. Years and years ago, the San Jose Mercury News ran their recipe and I made it - and I absolutely loved it. Then I couldn't resist tinkering with it, making it vegan, making it non-vegan.

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Yesterday, I was unpacking a moving box in the garage, and found a can of peas in a box of books. That's what happens when you hire a company to pack up your stuff. Anyway, I don't think I've EVER bought canned peas.... but there it was, mysteriously packed in a box of books. I remembered that Diane told me a very long time ago that she whizzes peas with chicken broth in a blender and pours it

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Yesterday when I opened the fridge at lunchtime, I saw a lot of little tupperware containers, all with just a few spoons of food. I was hungry, and dd was STARVING TO DEATH as she informed me, so lunch had to be quick and filling. I made soup from the leftovers.This is what I did: I sauteed an onion in a dab of olive oil, with about 2 cloves of garlic, minced. While that was going, I took out all

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I've been asked a number of times about the Orthodox Church and fasting. The Orthodox Church provides a number of "tools" to assist us humans who live in a fallen and broken world, draw nearer to God, and fasting is one of these tools. The Church considers it so important and useful a tool, that every Wednesday and Friday are fast days, and there are four major fast periods each year (Great Lent

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Arabic Cabbage and Rice Pilaf This is really a take on my favorite recipe for Lenten Lebanese-style grape leaf stuffing. Lenten grape leaves are my favorite - I love them MUCH more than the meat and rice ones, but I find rolling grape leaves a real time-consuming pain. So, I decided to adapt the recipe to a pilaf - all the flavor, none of the work! Just the kind of recipe that I like!Arabic

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Chocolate-Amaretto Tofu Pudding1 - 10 oz aseptic package silken tofu6 oz semi-sweet chocolate bits, melted2 Tbs dutch process cocoa powder2 Tbs sugar2 Tbs amarettoWhiz it all in the blender. Try to pour it into dessert dishes before you eat it all. Yummy!Four servingsFive stars

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Last night I made tomato basil soup using my vitamix, but any blender, or even immersion blender, will work just as well. This is one of those go-to recipes that take just a minute or two, are sure-fire crowd and kid pleasers, and can be made from items you have in your pantry. This recipe is adapted from the vitamix website.Tomato - Basil Soup6 oz can of tomato paste1/2 large onion1 carrot,

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Don't be afraid of the foreign-sounding name and the long list of ingredients! Its just veggies with the most yummy peanut sauce - everyone likes peanut butter, right? This is a perfect way to use up those pesky leftover steamed veggies sitting in your fridge!This was my first attempt at Gado Gado, which is basically an Indonesian composed salad dressed with peanut sauce. I've made peanut

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This is a recipe that is one of my standbys - any kind of bean will do, though I particularly like chickpeas and black beans the best. You can use any herb blend as well, though I prefer Italian seasonings for this. Today I used black beans since I have six cans in my pantry, and I had a half can of tomatoes left over from the pizza on Friday night. Use the best extra virgin, cold pressed olive

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This is my favorite bread recipe - I think my New England roots are showing because its the maple flavor that I love so much. However, don't be fooled into thinking this is a sweet bread - its not a dessert by any means - it makes great sandwiches. This recipe originally came from the instruction booklet for my very first bread machine, about 16 or 17 years ago, a DAK which looked like R2D2 and

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Yesterday I made some black bean dip. The recipe was adapted from one for red bean dip which I got from the vegetarian yahoo group. I couldn't resist tinkering with it, so it really doesn't have any resemblance to the original, though. I purposely made it very thick, like a paste, so that it could be used as a sandwich filling as well as a dip.1 15 oz. can black beans, drained3/4 tsp. ground

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