Recipes
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.
Well,...
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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...
Soups
Provençal Garlic Cure-All Soup
The holiday season, as you undoubtedly have noticed, is well underway. And with an ever-growing to-do list and seemingly less time to accomplish the...