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Aloo Chaat Style (Breakfast) Potatoes
Yesterday on Everyday Food Radio, host Sandy Gluck was talking about sweet versus savoury french toast. I shared with her listeners a recipe for Rajat’s Desi Style French Toast, a spicy, savoury french toast served with ketchup and chutney (no syrup here folks). Of course, I was a bit of a bad wife because I entirely […]
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A Side of Roasted Cauliflower – Dinner Party Worthy?
Growing up in an all vegetarian household, we ate a lot of vegetables. Afternoons snacks sometimes were bowls of freshly boiled peas, lima beans or brussel sprouts topped with butter and showered with salt and pepper. Cabbage, broccoli, beans – you name it, we ate it. And we enjoyed the pure vegetable taste of it. […]
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Spicy Pesto 3 Ways – Basil-Mint Pesto Tofu Scramble
For my third and final Spicy Basil-Mint Pesto dish, I only had about 2 tablespoons of pesto left. I got a little creative, borrowed some elements from Rajat’s tofu scramble and came up with a hearty breakfast of spicy pesto mixed with scrambled tofu, potatoes, onions and tomatoes topped off with chipotle flavored tostada shells. […]
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Spicy Pesto 3 Ways: Basil-Mint Pesto Bruschetta
Earlier this week, I blogged about a Spicy Basil-Mint Pesto Sauce we made and my fondness for recipes that use simple, readily available ingredients which can be recreated into other dishes out of leftovers. So last Wednesday I made a pesto sauce that we used for a hearty dinner of Pesto Marinara on Whole Wheat […]
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Spicy Pesto 3 Ways: Basil-Mint Pesto Marinara
Recipes that can be transformed from one dish into another and that hold up well as leftovers are really appealing to my schedule. I usually leave home early in the morning and don’t return until after dark, sometimes toting along more work. So, recipes like these which make for a quick and easy weeknight meal […]
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Miso Soup with Wontons
Ever since I started reading Jennifer 8. Lee’s Fortune Cookie Chronicles a few weeks ago, I’ve found myself wanting Chinese food everytime I pick up the book. To Jennifer’s credit, it’s no small feat to conjure up stirrings for eggrolls, bok choy and General Tso’s vegetarian unchicken during an 8 am subway ride! Jaden from […]