From the monthly archives:

July 2008

Thai Black Rice Pudding with Strawberries

July 27, 2008

If I was even remotely musical, I’d write a song for thai black rice pudding with strawberries (or any other kind of fruit, really). For Christmas and New Years 2006, my husband and I flew to Thailand for a belated honeymoon. The timing had several key benefits – besides avoiding the barrage of family drama [...]

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I Don’t Give a F*** Vegetable Medley

July 23, 2008

I had a crap day yesterday, and by the time I got home, I didn’t want to cook. For hours I started wistfully at the bag of vegetables I’d brought home from the farmer’s market – I’d had such plans for them, but I just didn’t give a damn anymore. How did I deal with [...]

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Vegan Cilantro Sour Cream Recipe

July 21, 2008
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Looking for a dairy-free, vegan sour cream option? This vegan sour cream recipe is so good you might forget about the regular stuff.

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Random Dessert Design

July 19, 2008

While wasting time on the internet, I ran across some desserts that made me want to get out my baking equipment and fill my digestive system with pound after pound of refined sugar. I probably won’t do it for real, but I will share what I found. Follow the links for instructions on how to [...]

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New Printing Functionality

July 18, 2008

Have you ever tried to print a blog post and ended up with miles of useless crap and extra pages, only to have the actual content you want to print out completely disappear from the printed copy? Well fret no more, dear readers. Thanks to Dustin Wax over at The Writer’s Technology Companion, Wasabimon now [...]

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Blueberry Oatmeal, Gluten-Free

July 10, 2008

As someone who can’t have gluten, oatmeal was a thing of the past. There are many opinions on why it’s unsafe for those of the anti-gluten persuasion to consume oats, from theories that they are inherently glutenated to concerns of cross-contamination due to being processed by facilities that also mill and transport wheat products. The [...]

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Moroccan Green Bean Tagine (with video!)

July 7, 2008

Ok, I’ve been lagging big time in posting. I have 384289734 drafts saved with topics that I want to write about, but with the long holiday weekend and an old RSI injury acting up again, I’ve been slacking. Enough excuses, here’s the most recent installment of the 10^2+1 Cookbooks Project, complete with a video. I [...]

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Kik Alicha, or Ethiopian Food Bliss

July 4, 2008

If you’re looking for vegetarian Ethiopian food recipes, you’ll love cooking this kick alicha dish. Quick, easy, and super healthy. It’s gluten free too!

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My Beloved Cast Iron Pan

July 1, 2008

Michael Ruhlman made a post about cast iron pans today, and after reading it, I feel like I should extol the virtues of my own heavy black workhorse. My cast iron pan has been abused (by me, in my less-savvy days) and then reincarnated for a second chance at life. Over the past seven years [...]

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