1 can chickpeas, rinsed, drained, and mashed with a fork ( Read more... )

My favorite hot weather dinner ( Read more... )

If I make cookies, I will eat them. This recipe, modified, scaled down and simplified from Dreena Burton's awesome choclate chip cookies, is super quick, and only makes 6 cookies ( Read more... )

1 onion, chopped
olive oil to saute

1tsp onion powder
1 tsp garlic powder
3 tsp chili powder
3 tsp cumin
1 tsp (preferably mexican) oregano
1/4 tsp chipotle or cayenne (optional)

1 cup red lentils
1/2 cup chopped pecans, walnuts, cashews or a mixture (if you aren't a calorie counter, or if it is a special occasion, double this)
3 cups of water

1/2 tsp salt
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1 8oz package tempeh
3 tbs prepared mustard (I used half yellow and half spicy brown)
1 clove garlic crushed (ok, I used 3, but they were tiny and I
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I went to a party last night and took a batch of Snickerdoodles. The recipe was requested by a couple of folks, at least one or two of whom should be able to find it here.

This is a link to the recipe I adapted for them: http://www.everydaydish.tv/Recipe%20Pages/dreenacookie.html

1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
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1 tbs olive oil
1 diced onion
1 cup lentils
2 cups water
2 tbs soysauce
2 tbs honey
1 clove crushed garlic
1 tbs yellow mustard
1/2 teaspoon ginger

Put all of this into a casserole and bake at 350 for 90 minutes.

Serve with rice and microwave frozen veggies or over toast if you are feeling lazy.

(Edit 2/17/09: This is excellent substituting maple syrup for ( Read more... )

So this morning, I was wanting something terribly autumny for breakfast, and K wanted oatmeal. So I added a half cup of organic canned pumpkin to my oatmeal, along with about 4 chopped pecan halves, a tablesppon of brown sugar 1/4 cup of raisins and 1/2 a teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice. Oh, yum.

I also experimented with the pumpkin spice ice cream ( Read more... )

Pumpkin Pancakes ( Read more... )

In honor of my little one's obsession with cadhla's new CD, a recipe... (and one to serve cold, in deference to the icky weather ( Read more... )