Tag: vegetarian
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Rustic Italian Veggie Pie
I saw a picture of something like this in a vegetarian cookbook, and since my household is temporarily vegetarian while my veggie friend is visiting from Brasil, I decided to make my own version. This is a pretty easy dinner, very hearty, sort of like a calzone. You could really use a variety of ingredients…
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Wild Mushroom and Egg Yolk Raviolo with Black Truffle Cream Sauce
You probably shouldn’t make this. Food this good shouldn’t exist. It sorta ruins the rest of the food in the world after you eat it. But if you MUST… I first had a raviolo (“raviolo” just means a BIG ravioli) stuffed with egg yolk at Joe Bastianich’s restaurant Osteria Mozza, where Mario Batali is the…
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Crispy Eggplant in Pumpkin Coconut Curry
Indian food runs a close second to Thai food for me, in terms of complexity and deliciousness! Curries, which are remarkably simple between Thailand and India, are savory sauces with a complex blend of sweet, sour, spicy, and savory notes. My favorite curries are the ones with a coconut milk base, rather than a broth…
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Potato Onion Soup
Potato leek soup is really one of the most delicious yet simple things on earth. But we can’t always find leeks year round, and they’re typically pretty expensive. AND, they can be downright impossible to clean, with all the grit that accumulates between their layers. (And when you wash out that grit, you wash away…
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Curried Pumpkin Soup
Soup is my favorite food. Pumpkin is my favorite ingredient. So naturally, I love pumpkin soups. Here is a foundational pumpkin soup recipe that I make all year long, and people can’t get enough of it. I first had this soup on a cruise ship in 1998, which is really the first time my pallate…
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Tom Kha Gai (Thai coconut lemongrass soup)
This is my favorite soup. From the first moment I tasted this soup in Thailand, I was dumbfounded by the flavors. It was so rich, so spicy, so tangy. Every time I eat it, I’m reminded of the time I was stranded in a cave in Thailand with my friend Ricky and two other backpackers…
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Indian Stuffed Yeast Breads
I ran across some recipe for yeast bread stuffed with curried veggies about a decade ago and over the years the recipe has morphed into my own. My friends LOVE these, and it’s a great introduction to Indian food for those who are nervous about it. These are individual rounds of crusty yeast bread stuffed…
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Overnight Cinnamon Rolls
Who on Earth can resist a warm, yeasty, sticky, sweet cinnamon roll fresh from the oven? ESPECIALLY if there’s cream cheese frosting to smear on top? The problem is that it takes a solid 3 hours to get cinnamon rolls finished once they are started, and who wants to get up THAT early? The solution,…
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Easy Overnight Old-World Dutch Oven Bread
Homemade bread is one of the most delicious and satisfying things you can make in your kitchen. I’ve built a wood-fired oven in my backyard in pursuit of that supreme flavor and texture you get from high temperature baking, but you can get near-perfect results in your normal oven if you have a cast iron…
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1 Hour Buttermilk English Muffins
I used to be grossed out by packaged English muffins. In fact, all packaged breads give me the creeps. I just can’t buy them. If they’re not sitting in the open air on the shelf of a bakery, and I’m confident they came out of the oven that day, I can’t bring myself to buy…