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            Spicy Thai Green Curry with Chicken, Eggplant and Bamboo Shoots
Back in my gluten-eating days, I lived near a great hole in the wall Thai restaurant.  Literally, the place is a garage with a...
                    
                                    
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            Massaged Kale Salad with Mango, Walnuts and Goat Cheese
Although I’ve been eating kale for a long, long time (Marcella Hazan’s excellent Tuscan Peasant Soup was my “gateway drug” to this dark, leafy...
                    
                                    
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            Watermelon Salad with Feta and Mint
Living in Hawaii, it’s easy to lose track of the seasons…  I suppose I’ve got something of an endless summer mentality.  But while  sunny...
                    
                                    
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            Indian Spiced Butter Chicken
For somebody who loves Indian cuisine as much as I do, I’m not quite sure how I’d gone so long without trying butter chicken,...
                    
                                    
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            Indian Chickpeas with Tomatoes and Dill
Although I most often associate dill with pickles and Scandinavian cuisine, it was Vietnamese (specifically cha ca thang long) and this Indian dish that...
                    
                                    
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            Red and Green Cabbage Salad with Lemon Mustard Seed Dressing
Let’s face it.  If there was such a thing as a popularity contest for vegetables, the humble cabbage probably wouldn’t have much of a...
                    
                                    
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            Creamy Goan Black-Eyed Pea Curry
I remember reading once (or hearing on the radio?) that Fergie was the only member of the Black-Eyed Peas who actually liked black-eyed peas.
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            Spiced Yellow Split Pea Fritters
Americans sure do love fried foods, so I’m not quite sure why we haven’t jumped on the bean/legume fritters bandwagon.  Clearly the rest of...
                    
                                    
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            Burmese Shrimp and Asparagus Stir-Fry
If you were to poke around my kitchen right now, you’d see a lot of jars and bottles containing all sorts of liquids and...
                    
                                    