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Spring Potato Salad

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I mentioned last week how I made guacamole with my friend Carolyn while I was in St. Louis. The other dish we made was potato salad. My parents have a huge mass of chives growing in their backyard. We don’t have any herbs growing at the moment, so I wanted to take advantage of the [...]

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Braised Celery

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Celery has never been one of my favorite vegetables. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being vegetables I love and 1 being vegetables I really dislike, it’s probably a 3. I’ll eat it, but I don’t make any efforts to include it in my cooking. Nevertheless, I had a bunch of celery that’s been kicking [...]

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Tea Eggs

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I stumbled upon a tea egg recipe a few months ago. I had never heard of tea eggs before. Apparently they’re a popular snack in China. (Most of the recipes I read made mention that all the 7-11s carry them.) I was intrigued and made a mental note to try them. With Easter coming up [...]

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Roasted Portobellos with Roasted Peppers and Blue Cheese

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This is one of my favorite ways to prepare portobello mushrooms. I realize using portobellos as a meat replacement is not exactly an inspired choice. But these mushrooms are especially delicious,  so I’m going to tell you about them anyway. Even though we are edging into spring, it’s still cool enough around here that it’s [...]

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Austrian Kale and Potatoes for Adopt A Gluten-Free Blogger

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This month I decided to adopt Rachel the Crispy Cook for Adopt a Gluten-Free Blogger. I’ve been following Rachel since I started gluten-free blogging. She’s great for us because most of her recipes are vegetarian. She also has fun canning and preserving recipes. Which, someday, I will learn how to do. When she posted this [...]

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Mr. Steve’s Coleslaw

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It is incredibly difficult to squeeze a recipe out of our father unless you physically assist him with cooking and record everything as it happens (maybe this is a slight exaggeration, but it is pretty tough). He very rarely uses recipes and frequently changes his cooking approaches and styles. However, he has used all of [...]

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Potato Horseradish Gratin

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There was horseradish root at the grocery store this week. I’d never seen horseradish whole before. I grabbed some and figured I’d come up with a recipe later. A gratin sounded just about right. I turned to my beloved How to Cook Everything Vegetarian for the framework, and this was the result. 2 cups half-and-half [...]

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Roasted Garlic Eggplant Dip

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This is my take on baba ganoush. Typically baba ganoush uses raw garlic, but it’s roasting season, and if you’re going to be roasting the eggplant I figure you might as well roast the garlic. 6 baby eggplants or 2-3 medium sized eggplants 2 heads of garlic 2 tablespoons tahini 1 tablespoon olive oil, plus [...]

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Tumeric Roasted Cauliflower

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In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s still winter. Winter is the season of roasted veggies. I’ve learned that there are lots of vegetables I can get Mike to eat if I roast them. Cauliflower is one such vegetable. Generally I stick with sea salt and black pepper when I roast vegetables. But one time I [...]

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Green Bean Fries with Garlic Aioli

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One of my favorite restaurants has been serving a similar dish on their seasonal specials menu. These beans are wildly popular and they frequently sell out. A couple weeks ago I decided that everyone should be able to enjoy these beans and started researching how to fry green beans. Here’s what I came up with: [...]

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Apple Cranberry Stuffed Squash

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As my sister mentioned the other day, it’s that time of the year when you start seeing squash everywhere. But just in case you didn’t receive the “it’s fall” memo (or you’re refusing to believe that summer is over), I’ll make it blatantly obvious by mixing apples, fresh cranberries and squash all together in one [...]

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