22 Wednesday May 2013
Posted in Equality for All, Food, Recipes
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cheeseburger, cooking, eating, food, fox news, fox news magazine, grilling, how to cook, no beef burgers, recipes, vegan, vegetarian
Guys something happened.
I got featured on what some might call an, ahem, conservative publication.
I had about a 3 second hesitation, and then realized “oh, they eat too.”
Duh. Weird how we get so caught up in “our” favorite news/entertainment outlets, isn’t it?
21 Tuesday May 2013
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cooking, easy cooking, eating, fish, food, healthy cooking, mexican food, recipes, seafood, tilapia, vegetarian, white fish
WELL.
I thought you might need something to go with the ever-so-slightly-decadent rice from yesterday so…..I made us a really light healthy fish!
If I were you I’d OF COURSE serve the two together, but this fish by itself is really nice and light so….I guess you could serve it with veggies or something like that if you’re feeling healthy.
What’s that like, by the way?
So, you can tell from the pictures that I made this on the same night as that lovely green baked rice, and this fish was GOOD. It was incredibly simple and came entirely from ingredients I already had at home. Also, once the fish thawed it took ten minutes so…never a bad thing.
20 Monday May 2013
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baked rice, casserole, cooking, easy cooking, eating, food, mexican food, potluck, recipes, vegetarian
Ohhhhhhhh this is comfort food but it tastes like Mexican food and it’s so easy and you can make it ahead and it’s vegetarian but hearty and filling and cheesy.
It’s great for a Monday, is what that should tell you.
This rice is all of the things.
Also, how was your weekend? Mine was kind of …. rained out. I had 93737 fun things planned for the sunshine, and then there wasn’t any so….whomp whomp.
We DID, however, celebrate a full year in our house! I did 3 loads of laundry to celebrate. Cool, huh?
Or not.
13 Monday May 2013
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chicken, cooking, eating, food, garlic, how to cook, mothers day, olive oil, recipes, rice pilaf, vegan, vegetarian
For our Monday, I’m making you a really bland and colorless side dish.
YAY! 
Just kidding. Colorless, yes, but this is very easy and packed with flavor so….maybe perfect for a Monday?
I made this yesterday for my mama for Mother’s day. What’d you do for your mom? My sister Emily got her a waffle iron and my other two sisters got her some sweet pottery so….my “gift” of dinner was lame, but still kind of delicious.
We hope she had a good time with all of her peeps.
This side dish, though. It’s good. Really good. I’m writing the printable just as I did it, but you could substitute any grains or rice-like things you like: quinoa, orzo, regular rice….anything! Just cook whatever you use separately since the cooking times will be all different, then mix ‘em together at the end.
10 Friday May 2013
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asparagus, asparagus pesto, cooking, eating, food, how to cook, italian food, pasta, recipes, vegan, vegetarian
It’s Friday!
It’s also 3 months before I get married. 
It’s also the day Jay comes back from a week away for work. We’re meeting in the mountains with our BFFs and are going to galavant all weekend.
I’m making lamb.
Before that, though, we need to indulge in our most recent vegan recipe, dontcha think?
This one was GOOD, guys. Incredibly easy because it’s raw (duh, it’s pesto), and FULL of flavor. I love the flavor of raw asparagus, and find it widely underused.
09 Thursday May 2013
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braised greens, cooking, eating, expat, food, how to cook, japan, recipes, tokyo, travel, vegan, vegetarian
It’s been a while since we’ve had some Japanese food, hasn’t it?
This is kind of weird – it’s totally delicious, but not something you see in the US so….sorry about that. Branch out. It’s song-of-my-people type of stuff, because I like to think that I’m Japanese, so you just have to deal with it. 
Also, it’s healthy and yummy so…you can be Japanese too!
My mom used to make this all the time when we lived in Tokyo, and it was a nice kid dish – salty and included fried tofu but made with a whole head of greens. I loved it, and I still do. If you leave out the dashi this is vegan, too – otherwise it’s a lovely vegetarian dish that kind of can be a meal.
Oh, and. 5 ingredients. Massive flavor.
07 Tuesday May 2013
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cooking, easy weeknight cooking, eating, fast cooking, food, frozen dinners, how to cook, pierogi, recipes, vegetarian
Well, wow.
I had a box of frozen pierogi in my freezer (duh?) from before we moved into our house.
That was LAST may.
I gross myself out.
I thought, though, that it was high time that I eat said old frozen pierogi, so I cooked them with butter and capers and tomatoes and white wine.
The entire meal took 25 minutes, was insanely delicious, and NOTHING tasted like freezer. I’m serious, kids. This was a huge winner and I’m mildly ashamed that I let those little guys sit in the cold for all that time. It was probably a long, weird year with all the random things that go in and out of my freezer.
06 Monday May 2013
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cooking, diet, easy cooking, eating, family, food, healthy, recipes, simple cooking, travel, vegetarian
This weekend I was really lucky to have an impromptu family reunion with my dad’s side of the family in Durham, NC.
More on that later, promise. It was a good one.
Anyway, during the course of the weekend my cousins told me that they read this here little blog, but can’t cook. My cute cousin Clare admitted that she recently set her kitchen on trying to make boxed pasta salad so…..that’s not good. They’re my blood, and we need to fix this.
So, I promised that we would showcase a few easy-peasy recipes here today that even the flaming-kitchen cooks could handle. These recipes are fast, easy, and foolproof.
02 Thursday May 2013
Posted in Food, Healthy Eating, Recipes
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cooking, diet, food, garlic, how to cook, italian food, pasta, recipes, vegan, vegan pasta, vegetarian, weight loss
GUYS I MADE PASTA AND IT TASTED LIKE HUMMUS ON NOODLES.
And Jay has eaten leftovers gleefully almost every day for lunch this week.
This is SO good. I thought of it last week when we did our whole vegan shenanigan, and I really like the idea of giving you guys and my gut a vegan recipe every once in awhile.
Hummus is one of those things that’s always touted as naturally vegan without any modifications so I thought….why not make the flavors of hummus coat a pasta? And why not stir some mint into that?
I did it, and it was REALLY good. It was raining on this particular day, so the photo gods weren’t exactly on my side. We watched Argo while we ate it, too, and I’d HIGHLY recommend that flick to anyone who lives under a rock like we do and hasn’t seen it yet.
01 Wednesday May 2013
Posted in Food, Healthy Eating, meal planning, Recipes
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chicken, cooking, diet, easy dinners, eating, food, how to cook, meal planning, recipes, vegan, vegetarian, weight loss
Last Wednesday I made this for my sister and her friend, so this Wednesday I’m showing it to you.
Makes sense, right?
It does.
One vegan dish and one healthy chicken dish and one yummy salad. All easy and fast, and together makes for a totally balanced meal.