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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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...