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Grain Free

River Cottage Corned Beef Recipe

February 10, 2010
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It’s almost St Patrick’s Day – do you have your corned beef recipe ready? Please don’t tell me that you’re going to head out to your local box-type grocery store and buy some cryovaced mass of artificial coloring and flavoring. No, no, no. You’re going to find some high quality beef and brine your own [...]

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Pan to Oven Baked Pork Chops Recipe

January 25, 2010
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This pan to oven baked pork chops recipe is perfect for a quick and easy dinner. Tender, buttery pork chops in less than half an hour!

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Almond Flour Muffins on Luna’s Kitchen Magic Radio Show!

December 21, 2009
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I’m on the radio with the lovely Luna Raven! Come follow us as we make blueberry peach almond flour muffins and talk about how to make your own vanilla extract.

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Curry Potato Soup Recipe with Lamb Meatballs

December 3, 2009
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This creamy, velvety potato soup is offset by curry-loving lamb meatballs. Packed to the edges with fresh vegetables, you’ll get your daily dose for the day.

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Heirloom Tomatoes – Caprese Salad Recipe

September 27, 2009
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Looking for a way to use those heirloom tomatoes? Let them shine by serving them in the raw. This recipe will let your heirloom beauties sing while bumping their flavor up a notch.

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Ricotta Stuffed Asian Pears with Cinnamon Recipe

September 26, 2009
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I love Asian pears, and this is the perfect way to enjoy them. This recipe gives you a nice spicy autumn dessert that’s super quick and easy to prepare. We’re talking ten minutes to delicious!

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Whole Roast Chicken with Fenugreek

September 21, 2009
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A lovely recipe from Modern Spice, a cookbook by Monica Bhide. If you’re looking for Indian chicken recipes or wondering what to do with that fenugreek in the cupboard, this dish is one for the history books. It is a surprisingly quick and easy roasted chicken recipe.

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Raw Food Cookery: Sexy B!tches Like it Raw

July 17, 2009
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What’s better that hot girls and good food? Nothing. At least that I can think of, anyway.

A few years ago I was wasting time on YouTube and stumbled across the channel for Sexy Bitches Like it Raw. I’ve dabbled in raw food before so I’m familiar with the culture, but most of the raw food folks border on crunchy and I’m not really into it.

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Bell’alimento! Making Espresso in a Moka Pot

July 6, 2009
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Want to learn how to make espresso in a moka pot? Let the lovely Paula show you how, complete with photos.

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Agave Vanilla Whipped Cream Recipe

June 26, 2009
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If you want to learn how to make whipped cream, this basic recipe will give your dessert a special flare.

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Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Sauvignon Blanc Recipe

May 26, 2009
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If you need a break from mashed potatoes, try mashed yams or sweet potatoes. Super easy and tastes amazing.

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T-bone Steaks on the Fly

May 19, 2009
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T-bones are great steaks and only need a little help to bring out their flavor and texture. This recipe will have you chowing down in half an hour.

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Yucatecan Slow Roast Pork Recipe

May 6, 2009
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This Mayan roast pork recipe will feed a crowd and have you making pork sandwiches for weeks.

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Creative Holiday Gift Ideas: Easter Basket Jars

April 11, 2009

I ran across this on a forum I’m on, and decided to make something similar for my family this Easter: Creative Holiday Gift Ideas: EASTER BUNNY S’MORES.

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Rib Eye Steak Marinade

April 6, 2009
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I have a small love affair with this rib eye steak marinade. I wasn’t always a meat eater, though. If you’ll allow me a quick tangent, I was once an uber-enthusiastic vegan, but loads of food allergies forced me back to my original meaty ways.

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Colcannon Mashed Potatoes Recipe

March 20, 2009

Do you know what colcannon mashed potatoes are?
It’s Saint Patrick’s Day week, so I’m keeping with the theme. Besides, a lot of you probably still have half a head of cabbage hiding in your crisper, just begging to be used lest it turn into a science experiment. Why not make colcannon mashed [...]

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Bacon Sauteed Asparagus Recipe

March 13, 2009

I love fresh asparagus recipes. And when I say fresh, I mean FRESH. There’s a world of difference between asparagus that’s hours old and days old – if you compare the two size by size, the taste difference is remarkable. Freshly cut asparagus is actually sweet, whereas anything over a few hours old [...]

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Bacon Rosemary Garlic Mashed Potatoes Recipe

March 9, 2009

The only thing that can make a garlic mashed potatoes recipe better is rosemary. Oh, and bacon (because doesn’t bacon turn everything up to eleven?).
I love bacon. For health reasons I try not to eat it often, but occasionally I’ll make a recipe that requires bacon and I’ll find half a pound of [...]

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Yes, Another Potato Leek Soup Recipe

March 5, 2009

Part of the canon of quintessential healthy recipes, potato leek soup will cure whatever ails you, hands down. I still feel like hell, so soup it is. Again.
I modified pilfered this recipe from Emeril Lagasse, because you can’t argue with a good recipe. This one gets me every time – [...]

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Winter Greens and Root Vegetable Soup Recipe

March 2, 2009

Apologies in advance for any lack of articulation in this post. I’ve fallen victim to the “winter blahs” and the caffeine just isn’t doing it for me, so today you get your daily dose of healthy recipes sans personality.
I love soup, but for whatever reason I’ve always hated preparing it. This season all that [...]

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Cooking with a Cazuela

February 25, 2009

Hey everyone,
I’ve been super busy this week with some major projects, but I wanted to let you know that my new article is up on NPR Online: Travels With My Cazuela. The article is about cooking in clay cookware, and how you can bring the vibrance of another country to your home in lieu [...]

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Hickory’s Bacon Wrapped Chicken Recipe

February 19, 2009

I made a lot of food for Super Bowl Sunday, and it was all mighty good. For as nosh-worthy as my dishes were, though, my friend Hickory stole the show by wrapping something tasty in something even tastier. I’ve eaten all sorts of things wrapped in cured meat, but a simple chicken breast [...]

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Steph’s Orgasmic Lamb Burger Recipe

February 16, 2009
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If you’re looking for a great lamb burger recipe, this one will make you curl your toes in ecstasy.

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Wanna-be PF Chang’s Lettuce Wraps Recipe

February 12, 2009
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If you’re looking for a PF Changs lettuce wraps recipe, then you’ll love this one. It’s the best Asian chicken lettuce wrap recipe out there!

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Vegan Truffle Recipe

February 9, 2009

Maybe you’ve been watching all of these truffle posts thinking, “Crap! My girlfriend/boyfriend/farm animal du jour is vegan. These recipes do me no good.” Take heart, dear downtrodden culinarian. I’ve got your back.
I made these truffles for my friend Ritu, and she loved them. I don’t know whether it was the [...]

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Spicy Chai Truffles Recipe

February 5, 2009

As you can see, I’m continuing on my Valentine’s Day chocolate bender. And why shouldn’t I? Isn’t this the one time of year people are supposed to shower you with chocolates? In addition to Easter, Halloween, and Christmas, that is. Ah well, any excuse to pound the cacao is [...]

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Basic Chocolate Truffles Recipe

February 2, 2009
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Want to learn how to make chocolate truffles? You’ll be surprised how easy it is.

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Homemade Yogurt How-to and Recipe

January 28, 2009

Ever since I ramped up my cooking a few years ago, I’ve been on this quest to make as many things at home as possible. Like what? Well, most recently I’ve turned my attentions to making yogurt. After weeks and weeks of exhaustive research (seriously – at this point you can ask me [...]

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Winter Vegetable Soup with Chorizo Recipe

January 21, 2009

I went out of town right after my veggie box arrived last week, and when I returned home, I had a whole drawer full of vegetables that needed to be used, like, three days ago. I needed a recipe that would make use of broccoli rabe (aka rapini), celery root (aka, celeriac), leeks, carrots, [...]

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What Is The Difference Between Macarons and Macaroons?

January 16, 2009
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I’d like to clear this up once and for all: a lot of people are confused about the difference between macarons and macaroons. No, they are not the same thing.
Behold, the macaron:

And now, the macaroon:

See the difference?
While both recipes are gluten free by default, they’re entirely different cookies. The sandwich-like French [...]

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