L and I cooked up a vegetarian moussaka storm last night! It took quite a bit longer than we had anticipated, but Oh. My. God. was it delicious!

We cobbled it together from 2 existing recipes plus our own brains (hence the Frankenstein):

It was based on a moussaka recipe from foodnetwork.com. That gave us the overall structure and proportions. ( Read more... )

I've never been drawn to gardening. But I really, really, really enjoy home-grown vegetables ( Read more... )

The Kitchen Witch strikes again!  I will definitely make this repeatedly!

What if one doesn't eat bacon or onions but wants to make collard greens even a Southerner could love?

One deconstructs the flavor profile.  Smokiness for the bacon?  How about some chipotle pepper?  Not a big spicy amount; just a tease of smokiness and a glimmer of heat.  ( Read more... )

Last night, we tried out a recipe based on this:

http://jcarrot.org/yiddish-beet-and-carrot-burgers

(Thank you, pdxyogini, for turning me onto this site!  I love it!)

Our tweaks:
- left out onion & garlic
- added oregano
- ETA: added ginger
- increased Bragg's (which we used instead of tamari)
- used red rice instead of brown rice since that's what we had ( Read more... )

This turned out way better than I expected ( Read more... )

A journal entry (on a completely unrelated topic) by technoshaman  reminded me of this, and if you haven't seen it, you must!

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brilliant!!!

A lovely behind-the-imbibing-scenes glimpse of some Dr. Horrible writers.

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Mmm.

Lumpia = Filipino eggrolls.  This past summer, my sister showed me that eggrolls, etc., can be just as easily baked as fried.  Much easier and much healthier!  Yay!  I came up with an easy and amazingly tasty sauce to dip them in, and they were a big hit with all 3 generations on our family vacation!  Now they're on frequent rotation in my & L's ( Read more... )