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Menu Plan Monday Dec. 13

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It's Menu Plan Monday (and my birthday, yay!). We had a weird week last week with some work being done to the house, so we ended up making about half the menu and doing a lot of leftovers meals. So, here's the menu for this week (there are some[...]

Salad Dressing and Menu Planning

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One of the hardest things about getting into the habit of cooking for yourself is having the ingredients on hand. For many people, home cooking is synonymous with constant trips to the grocery store and still never having the ingredients you need[...]

Party Menu ? Buns & Veggie Delicacy

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When I think of a street food which is healthy too, Pav Bhaji wins hands down! Yes, with loads of veggies sitting pretty on the plates of my kids with a smile on their faces,  is what gets the crown for this humble dish called Pav[...]

Garlic Scape, An Off-Menu Treat

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Two weeks ago I went to a Dongbei (or Northeastern China) restaurant in Flushing for lunch with a group of Chinese food enthusiasts. I glanced through the menu, but like many seasoned Chinese diners I asked the owner if they had any special[...]

Garlic Scape, An Off-Menu Treat

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Two weeks ago I went to a Dongbei (or Northeastern China) restaurant in Flushing for lunch with a group of Chinese food enthusiasts. I glanced through the menu, but like many seasoned Chinese diners I asked the owner if they had any special[...]

Party Menu ? Easy Vegetable Fried Rice

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Vegetable fried rice with fresh yogurt Raita is what I count upon for a quick meal when unexpected guests arrive at home. There are countless ways this humble recipe can be prepared using various spice mixes and veggies to go in it. But[...]

Party Menu ? Creamy Strawberry Ice Cream

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Ice cream was not in the party menu a few years back, before I realized that many children dislike fruit salad or anything that is remotely related to or being refered as  health food!  Given  a choice even my kids prefer Ice cream[...]

Veal on the Menu: no lectures please!

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Is your food politically correct? Overfished species, inhumanely treated farm animals? menus are minefields of ethically suspect foods. In the past few weeks, a Hollywood hangout abruptly closed down after being exposed for serving whale[...]

Kiddie Party Menu Series#1-Stuffed Masala Buns

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We're moving cities. Shifting everything we own from one city to another, obviously, is not an easy task. But it is definitely easy compared to the task of uprooting ourselves from our friends, memories, houses that we've transformed[...]

Rosemary Polenta: Day 3 of Slow Cooker Whole Chicken Menu

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We've been a little chickened-out around these parts, so I decided to turn to the juices left over from the chicken to make a fun new recipe. The adventure that ensued is below. I've made polenta before and while I think this is by far my[...]