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Cilantro-Chili Pesto Sauce
A friend pointed that I didn’t provide instructions for making the cilantro-chili pesto sauce needed for my Vindaloo Pasta Sauce*. Admittedly, that’s because I cheated and used leftover pesto that I bought from Union Market. I was trying to finish up what I hadn’t used in our Tofu Scramble. Here’s a recipe that I’ve used before to […]
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Vindaloo Pasta Sauce
The chilly, windy weather outside made me want to cozy up with a big bowl of spicy, saucy pasta. So, I fired up the oven and roasted some tomatoes, onions and garlic. The freshness of these three, simple ingredients roasted with a splash of olive oil and sea salt is a treat but a sprinkle […]
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Vegetarian Sushi…Beyond California Rolls
R first introduced me to sushi was four years ago in Lake Tahoe. I loved the combo of rice and fresh veggies, rice and fried sweet potatoes, rice and tempura. Sushi at non-vegetarian restaurants gives me the heebee jeebees though…I picture fish juice contaminating my veggie sushi (sounds crazy but is it really?). Once, I […]
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Goodnight Moon – Karwachauth and Tapioca Payasam
I’m not one who skips meals, and I don’t “forget to eat.” In fact, I’m at my all time worst when I’m hungry. As a warning about my temperment when hungry, my brother, during his speech at our wedding reception, warned R to carry bite size snickers in his pocket lest by some stroke of misfortune I was made […]
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Hold the Eggs – Tofu Sramble with Pesto
It’s been nearly five months since R and I returned to Brooklyn from a three year stint in Boston. Though the southerner in me is thrilled to have escaped before Boston’s winter, I do miss New England summers and easy escapes to the idyllic surroundings of the Cape, Maine and Vermont. This Labor Day weekend, […]
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Chayote Squash Kura
Chayote squash is a curious little vegetable. It’s slightly intimidating with its odd pursed seam along one edge making it look like a cartoonish venus fly trap or the Grinch’s balled up fist. When you peel it, it lets off heavy beads of sweat and gets slippery. The juice dries on your hands making them […]
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Bruschetta with Ricotta Salata
Salt, butter, cheese and bread are among my favorites – a cardiologist’s nightmare. We actually cook and eat pretty healthily but things might be different if it weren’t for R making me adopt healthy habits (for example, who knew dumplings could be steamed and not pan fried and that the gym should be attended regularly???). [Note: […]
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My Secret Dream to be a Sandwich Artist – Aloo Gobi Naanini
R and I don’t usually don’t have time to really cook dinner on weeknights b/c we get home so late, so on nights like tonight, we rely on heating up leftovers. I had gotten a little tired of the rice and aloo combo, so I decided to turn my leftover aloo gobi sabji into a […]
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Eggplant in Peanut Sauce
With the season starting to change and the weather turning cooler, I’ve been craving the velvety taste of baingan, or eggplant. So tonight I tried to recreate a dish that my mom makes – eggplant in a peanut sauce. R and I went grocery shopping at the new Whole Foods in Tribeca, which usually has […]