Pumpkin Quinoa

December 8, 2008

File under, “I love quinoa!” This is so simple I hate to call it a recipe, but so yummy I wanted to share it! It really came out of some of the leftover stuffed pumpkin from Thanksgiving and my need for a quick-to-make lunch to take with me to yoga teacher training. 1 cup qunioa […]

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Quinoa & Carrot Salad

December 1, 2008

This salad has no pictures because I just threw this together out of what I found in the house one afternoon while foraging for lunch between conference calls. We had a bag of grated carrots from Trader Joe’s that had been picked up for the veggie sushi and needed to be used up! I was […]

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Sambar Pudi

December 1, 2008

A pudi, or “Powder” in Hindi, is part spice blend and part thickener used in many Indian dishes, especially soups or stews. Rather than breaking down all the spices, grains and legumes at the time of cooking a dish, like sambar, they are mixed together in a fine powder that can then be added when […]

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Diwali Happiness 2 – Sambar

December 1, 2008

Still, no pictures. Really, I will get better about this. I also realize that it is December and Diwali is many weeks past now, but I am at least going to get my recipe for sambar posted! Sambar, a lentil stew very popular in India, is one of my favorite dishes. Over the past few […]

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Super Simple Quinoa-roni

November 14, 2008

This recipe is in the “easier than falling off a log” category, subcategory: OMFG. Quinoa is apparently the proteiniest thing ever. Like protein in protein sauce on a bed of leafy proteins garnished with protein artfully shaped into an elaborate flower that looks suspiciously like a molecular diagram of a protein. All I know is […]

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Diwali Happiness 1 – Besan Ladoo

November 10, 2008

I suck – again, no pictures! I will just have to make some of these again and photograph. Two of my co-workers are here from India and they came up with the idea of having a big lunch to celebrate Diwali. This is a huge, multi-day festival celebrated across India; a time for big gatherings […]

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Lemon Spice Applesauce

October 20, 2008

Christie and I went on a field trip to the aforementioned Kiyokawa Orchards at the beginning of the month. We got a map, directions, a box, and a little red wagon and set out to pick apples from the u-pick orchard. In short time we had bags of Elstar, Gala, Empire, Swiss Delight, and a […]

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Rosey Spiced Apple Preserves

October 20, 2008

The NYTimes had some recipes up related to Rosh Hashana that I emailed along to Gayle. One is a beef dish that she and I talked about how to make vegan. I haven’t tried that yet, but with the gorgeous bounty of apples from Kiyokawa Orchards I was prompted to make the Apple Preserves with […]

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Easy Breakfast Tofu Eggs

October 20, 2008

I’m not an egg person. Even when I was just a vegetarian, I ate eggs maybe twice a year, and then it was EggBeaters, cooked extra hard, usually to placate someone in the car who had to go to Elmer’s or IHOP for breakfast because their coffee has extra crack or something. I never quite […]

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Bulgogi-style fake chicken

October 7, 2008

When you think “cuisines that are super-easy to veganize,” you think “Korean!” Right? Right?! OK, so the meat-heavy Korean barbecue is not the most natural fit for vegans, what with the sauces and side dishes that always manage to sneak in powdered shrimp (who the heck needs to powder a shrimp?). But that doesn’t stop […]

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