It hasn't been Andrew's week. He was violently ill on Tuesday, so I picked him up after a half day of work and put him straight to bed. Yesterday was stage 2 of the snow, and he spent a good while digging our alley out (against my protestations, for the record). Today, walking to catch the train in Trenton, he fell on his back and sprained his ( Read more... )

Breakfast casserole is in the crock pot; I'll turn 'er on around midnight and in the AM we'll have noms. I am seriously, truly loving this crockpot cookin'. We received ours as a wedding gift and I've used it sporadically, but in the past week I've been using it daily and just adore the variety of vegetarian goodness that you can create in it. They ( Read more... )

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After months of consideration, I have decided to become vegan. It feels strange to even be typing these words because I guess for years I'd harbored misconceptions of vegans as crunchy, granola-loving, dreadlocked, dirty hippies. I know some of them are- but I think the majority are actually just people like myself who, for a variety of reasons, ( Read more... )

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I know we can have cheese this week, but I've been experimenting with foods for the Great Fast anyway. Today's lunch was this:

1 tortilla, warmed in a pan
Several tablespoonfulls of refried black beans
A handful of spinach leaves
Cilantro-mint chutney (see yesterday's posted recipe)Oh, how yummy it is! I've got some tabouli salad chilling in the ( Read more... )

Credit again to Madhur Jaffrey.

INGREDIENTS:

3/4 cup firmly packed fresh mint leaves
2 cups firmly packed fresh cilantro leaves
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice (I used lemon, which is fine, but DON'T use too much)
1 tablespoon ground cumin
1/2 cup water
3 to 4 small green chiles (I used 2 large and just chopped 'em up)
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I just finished my first batch of this stuff (eating it, that is) and it is EXACTLY what you eat in the restaurants or buy in the supermarket (minus the preservatives and icky chemicals).

YOU WILL NEED:

1/2 gallon (2 quarts) whole milk (preferably organic ( Read more... )

Last night, I learned how to make paneer, the delicious Indian soft cheese that I'm addicted to. All you need is whole milk and a few tablespoons of vinegar. Guess what I'm doing today?

NOMNOMNOMNOMNOM.