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Soup, Salad and Sandwiches

Red Sorrel and Arugula Salad with Avocado and Orange

16.03.2010 Gluten-Free

I live in an area that is perfect for growing just about anything all year long if one can forget the pesky dilemma of drought we’ve endured for the past many years.  I’ve been a reasonably capable gardener most of my life — thanks to my mother who most likely could grow a stick in [...]

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“Creamy” Asparagus Soup

28.12.2009 Chef's Recipes

With New Year’s Day less than a week away, I’ve found myself not wanting to wait until the traditional January 1st to promise myself that I’ll turn over a new leaf here and there in my life — or perhaps nine.  Do I hear 25?  After all the cookies and cooking, left-over food,  and dishes [...]

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Waldorf Salad sans Mayo

10.11.2009 Cookbooks and Magazines

We’ve been eating quite a bit of soup and salad lately.  With the business of our lives, it often seems to be the only way to make sure we don’t fall into the take-out habit, or worse, microwaved frozen food.  Call me a food snob — or better yet, consider that it’s not challenging [...]

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Roasted Green Chilis & Bittman

26.09.2009 Bittman

I’ve been so busy lately, I barely have time to procrastinate which confirms what I’ve always suspected:  planning is but a series of decisions about what not to do so that I can do what I’d like.  Sometimes this is simply not doing anything — or anything significant, that is.  In the case of my [...]

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Bittman Salads: 3 Delicious Choices

30.08.2009 Bittman

Since I began working my way through Mark Bittman’s “101 Simple Salads for the Season”, I’ve not quite been able to keep up with the goal I set to make at least five salads in a seven day week.  Most of the time, it’s simply that I was missing a key ingredient, or I [...]

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Cool Zucchini Soup with Lemon-Cumin Shrimp and Cilantro Creme

22.08.2009 Bon Appetit

I’d like to believe the weather we’ve been enjoying is here to stay, but I know our small slice of Paradise much too well. Instead of the often sweltering heat we experience in August, we’ve been treated to grey skies, cool, moist breezes, and yesterday, fat drops of rain that teased us late [...]

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