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Month: October 2014
Fall Harvest Cookbook Club and Roasted Hubbard Squash and Caramelized Onion Galette with Fontina Cheese
The theme for our Cookbook Club this month was “Fall foods,” which is pretty much the theme of my life right now. No really, as if my “all squash” diet wasn’t enough, I went on a serious pumpkin bender at Trader Joe’s on Saturday. Croutons, mochi, macarons, cider. Can’t. Get....
Caramel Apple Cider Cookies and Pumpkin Irony
My big news for the weekend is that I appear to have overcome my pumpkin allergy! It’s probably been fifteen years since I last carved a pumpkin. Frankly it wasn’t worth the hives and swollen eyes. But when I got an invite to a pumpkin carving party, I decided it...
Mediterranean Pasta with Creamy Eggplant Sauce
Don’t you love it when you make something really, really delicious, and then you repurpose the leftovers into something even more delicious?! I didn’t think it was possible to make this baba ghanoush any more delicious, but that was before I stirred it into my pasta. It started last week when I found myself...
Paleo Cincinnati Style Turkey Chili
This delicious dish is somewhere between a chili and a bolognese. Or maybe it’s just a chili that I decided to serve bolognese style, but I hear that’s quite common with Cincinnati style chili. This style of chili has a thinner more sauce-like consistency than most chili con carne. It’s...
Butternut Squash and Kale Spanakopita
As we were eating breakfast this morning, I started complaining to Courtney that I didn’t feel like we’d had enough adventures this Fall. This made perfect sense in my mind until he reminded me that we spent last weekend whitewater rafting on Class V rapids. So okay, perhaps I have...
A Story I’ve Been Meaning to Tell
This has been an exciting week for me. I submitted an article to the Huffington Post for the first time, and not only did they print it but they featured it on the front page of the women’s section. I’m beyond flattered, but also really stoked that I was given...
An Okra Parmigiana so Good That I Threatened the Dogs for Just Looking at my Plate the Wrong Way
Oh my, I don’t even know what to say about this dish. I’d never cooked okra before this Summer, but this parmigiana has made me a believer! Okra can sometimes be a bit slimy, but it certainly isn’t once breaded and fried. Because the okra is so small, the breading...
Cookbook Club and Sweet Cheese Mutabbaq
My Cook Book Club met this Sunday for the much anticipated CHEESE EDITION! After an entire week of the SNAP Challenge I don’t think I’ve ever been more excited about cheese in my life, and my excitement about cheese is already quite high. We had a smaller group this time,...
Grain Free Coconut Zucchini Muffins (No Added Sugar!)
Zucchini was a frequent component of my CSA bag mid-Summer. At one point, we were getting so much of it that it was accompanied with a sheet on how to freeze or otherwise preserve the green squash. But as Murphy’s Law would have it, it seems I came across...