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Dip, Baby, Dip: Muhammara (Roasted Red Pepper Dip)
  Happy New Year, folks! I'm not much for new year's resolutions, but coming off two weeks of insane indulgence, it's time to get back on the wagon. I won't be vowing to hit the gym only to poop out by the end of January, but I will be trying to eat more vegetables and get more whole grains into my diet. So let's start off the year with this gorgeous muhammara dip, shall we? Using a base of roasted red peppers, it makes for a pretty healthy snack with pita chips or carrot sticks and offers a nice alternative to hummus. It's fantastic alongside tzatziki for grilled chicken or lamb kebabs, too.
January 1, 2012Share Post
Baking Recipes
Nuts DO Belong in Brownies: Bourbon Pecan Pie Brownies
  All my life I've been a firm believer that nuts have no place in brownies. Full stop. Brownies are brown because of chocolate (or cocoa). Today I'm revising that to walnuts have no place in brownies, because pecans, well pecans are unbelievable in brownies. I have Jessica at How Sweet It Is to thank for the realization because of these Bourbon Pecan Pie Brownies.
December 27, 2011Share Post
cabbage with apples
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Braised Red Cabbage with Apples
It might seem like a weird time to be talking about cabbage when everything else in the food world is about sweets or appetizers or booze, but I'm doing it. When we all come out on the other side of these holidays, it'll be time to think about vegetables, including that winter workhorse, cabbage. Like the…
December 20, 2011Share Post
beerocks
Baking Recipes
Beerocks: Beef and Cabbage Turnovers
When I was a kid, we didn't live far from the Bridgford Bread manufacturing plant. Their yellow and red bags were a staple of my childhood. I can remember my mom making both cinnamon rolls and beerocks (or bierocks) from their frozen bread dough.   What the heck is a beerock? A beerock/bierock is essentially a beef…
December 18, 2011Share Post
Baking Recipes
Yes! More Cookies: Anzac Biscuits Dressed Up for the Holidays
  Originally, I was thinking about making these No Sugar Oat Drops, but it being the holidays I decided they were maybe a little too close to a granola bar...a little too healthy (yes, I'm crazy). I even bought the overripe bananas at the grocery in anticipation of making them, but then settled on a batch of Anzac biscuits. Anzac biscuits are a brilliant invention all their own. Coconut, oats, brown sugar, butter, Lyle's Golden Syrup and a little baking soda and water. What's not to like? But since the holidays are all about gilding the lily, I thought I'd dress 'em up a little. By altering the recipe, it's not strictly an Anzac biscuit anymore, but it's an oaty, coconutty drop of delicious, that's for sure, and with a couple of additional tweaks, it just gets better. So coconut, oats...plus what?
December 14, 2011Share Post
Restaurants Travel
Oh Tasty n Sons, How I Love Thee…
This weekend, we headed down to Portland to check out the Portland Bazaar that DesignSponge organized with a bunch of different local vendors from the PDX area. I'd hoped to get a little Xmas shopping done, but saw more things that would have been for me, like these excellent iPhone cases from Grove. So I held back. Before we hit the Bazaar, we went for brunch at Tasty n Sons.
December 12, 2011Share Post
Photo One-offs
Photo One-Off: Show a Little State Pride
Gift Guides are everywhere right now. I was so tickled by the Washington state cutting board my mom sent us (cheese knives, not included) that I had to share. How cute is this?! A.Heirloom sells US states and a handful of countries, over at their Etsy Shop and also takes custom orders if they…
December 6, 2011Share Post
5 delicious ways to eat kale
Recipes Salads Side Dishes
The Cure for Your Winter Salad Woes: Insalata Tricolore
In the summer, salads are a no-brainer. You have amazing tomatoes for Caprese, you can throw berries or peaches or nectarines together with some arugula, the salads almost make themselves. But as we roll into the winter, I start looking blankly into my vegetable drawer. If only I'd planned ahead, maybe some roasted beets. Apple and celery? Raw lacinato kale salad...but we had that twice this week already. You've been there, right? So what to do? Insalata tricolore...the salad of three colors.
December 4, 2011Share Post
Main Course Recipes
Holy Mole — Oaxacan Black Mole with Chicken
  I think it was seeing Rick Bayless win Top Chef Masters season 1 with his Oaxacan Black Mole that pushed me over the edge. If we go to a Mexican restaurant and they have mole, I'm definitely ordering it. It's great sometimes, and others it's a flame out. But at home, unless you're going to make it from scratch, Dona Maria mole in a jar is usually your only option. But now that I've made Bayless' mole, there's no going back.
November 30, 2011Share Post
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Out with the Old, In With the New: Ancho Creamed Corn
This year we had a smaller crew together for Thanksgiving, so I pretty much scaled everything back so that we'd end up with a manageable amount of leftovers (read: a lot of stuffing and only a little of everything else!). In the end, our regular corn pudding was crossed off the list entirely. I even…
November 27, 2011Share Post
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