Side dishes

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Recipe: Potato Latkes

April 19, 2011

I was going to make you guess what’s in the photo above, but the post’s headline gives it away. Darn you, Google, and your search engine demands. As you can tell, these golden fritters are latkes. I made a big batch after the recent potato-fueled food fight. I’d like to tell you this was culinary [...]

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Recipe: Spicy Green Beans

March 17, 2011

You know you’re getting old when St. Patrick’s Day arrives and instead of wondering where you put your green belt and shamrock earrings, you make a mental note not to drive anywhere after 6 PM and place bets on how many drunks are going to stagger by at 3 AM singing Danny Boy at the [...]

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Orange and Carrot Salad

March 10, 2011

Winter has returned with a vengeance, Dumping great soggy clumps of slush on our heads. In the face of this penetrating cold, I don’t want hot soup. I don’t want great steaming mounds of comfort food. I want warm temperatures and sunshine. And I want it now. So I’m pretending they dishwater gray sky is [...]

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Recipe: Zucchini Fritters with Dill Tzatziki

March 8, 2011

It’s not unusual for me to get excited over a cookbook. But every once in a while one resonates with me on so many levels that I just want to curl up on the couch, cradle it in my arms and stroke its pages. And The Kitchen Garden Cookbook is my latest crush. It’s as [...]

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Recipe: Accordion Potatoes

February 11, 2011

It has been brought to my attention that I have been writing a bit too much about chocolate. As if there’s such a thing. However, I don’t want to give you a false impression of my eating habits, so I will change the topic (briefly) to non-chocolate things. Since woman cannot live by chocolate alone, [...]

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Recipe: Green Bean Fries

November 23, 2010

There is something subversively satisfying about finding a fried vegetable recipe in a healthy eating book. I was thumbing through Clean Start: Inspiring You to Eat Clean and Live Well with 100 New Clean Food Recipes by Terry Walters. Hidden somewhere between the longest title on record and the index chock full of healthy tempeh, [...]

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Recipe: Spicy Quinoa-Stuffed Peppers

October 5, 2010

I admit it. I’m lazy and messy. Thee mere thought of  forcing gobs of unruly stuffing into tall, wobbly-bottomed peppers is an open invitation to Murphy. But, I got smart, knocked the suckers on their side and stuffed them full without so much as an “oops.” Anyone who’s grappled with a towering stuffed pepper will [...]

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Spicy Cauliflower with Cilantro Dressing

August 25, 2010

A local Indian restaurant makes an addictive appetizer — bite-sized vegetables dipped in a spicy chickpea batter, deep fried and served with a cilantro dipping sauce. Whenever Andrew and I dine there, I pluck all the cauliflower florets from the plate and eat them myself. Since he doesn’t like cauliflower, it’s a pretty good system. [...]

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Raw Sweet Potato Salad

August 9, 2010

Sweet potatoes are confusing. People call them yams, but they’re not.* Even though you’re far more likely to encounter a sweet potato than a yam here in North America, I think we embrace the term “yam” because it’s more fun to say. Weighing in at four syllables, “sweet potato” is a mouthful. Yam? One. Plus [...]

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Easy Roasted Lemon Potatoes

July 27, 2010

I have decided to strike the following phrase from my vocabulary: How hard can it be? It gets me into trouble. For example: Hey, honey, I need a new stove. Why don’t we just knock down a wall and add an eat-in kitchen while we’re at it. How hard can it be? Or upon learning [...]

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Mixed Greens with Maple-Glazed Nuts

March 18, 2010

When it comes to salad. I’ve let myself go. Sure, I might dress things up with Nectarine and Plum Chicken or make an extra effort with a new dessert like Coconut Cream Pie Ice Cream.  But leafy side dishes? I’m sad to say, the spark has gone. Until recently. I admit, before this week, salad [...]

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