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This photo was taken part-way through cooking - after stewing for about another hour, it was rich and sticky, and bursting with sweet Moroccan flavour. I'd definitely recommend it!


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On Sundays, my husband and I cook our meals for the week. We usually cook one-pot wonders, casseroles and/or soups/stews. We have also done burritos in bulk and freezed them and this has worked pretty well. We try to do more than one a week so that we have some variety. A lot of our meals end up being tomato-based which is usually not a problem. ( Read more... )

 I'm taking the University of Oregon's Urban Farm course this term (jealous?), and every few days I get to take home a giant bag of whatever veggies we harvest that day. Yesterday we harvested at least 10 lbs of dinosaur kale, and I took home a bunch of it. I was really craving the "Braised Seitan with Brussels, Kale, and Sun-Dried Tomatoes" recipe ( Read more... )

( Gumbo aux herbes (Gumbo z’herbes) served over quinoa )

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sinboy and I recently bought Cardamom and Lime, a Middle Eastern cookbook, and promised each other that we would make ten recipes from it to justify the expenditure. I love dumplings, so when I saw a recipe for a dumpling stew in there, I insisted that we make it first ( Read more... )

An Iraqi version of mujadra (a lentil and rice stew) which tastes yum yum yum. This redipe is for 6 courses.

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A close friend's parent is having brain surgery very soon. I was planning on making "mom and dad" something hearty and comforting and bringing it over before surgery, but it sounds like after will be more helpful to them ( Read more... )

Hey. I want to make a pumpkin stew for Halloween dinner where the stew is served inside a pumpkin. I've never done this before so I just wondered if anyone had any recipes that they've tried.

I found a recipe here which looks pretty good and has you bake the entire pumpkin in the oven with the stew inside. As opposed to this one which has you cook ( Read more... )

Perfect winter food. The stew was a basic vegetable stew, carrots, swede, parsnip and onion and the dumplings were all thyme-y, so so good. I love winter food!


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