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HOLLA! Sweet Potato Challah

By Alexa | Published: January 14, 2010
Challah, the braided bread served on Shabbat and most holidays, is delicious, and typically made with many eggs.  We had vegan guests over for Shabbat last weekend, so eggs were out.   I had to learn how to make an eggless challah, and fast, so I turned to Joan Nathan, the Guru of Jewish cooking, [...]
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Sustainable Snacking: Granola Balls

By Alexa | Published: August 23, 2009
Last week we were fully sustainable, meaning that everything we ate for 7 days straight was made from scratch in our kitchen.  No ordering in dinner, no buying breakfast on the way to the subway, and no grabbing a mid-afternoon snack at work…and we think that if everyone knew how easy it actually is to [...]
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Invest a little time, make a lot of dough

By Matthew | Published: August 21, 2009
Making bread and pizza at home is all about planning. Once you’ve got the timing right, it requires very little active work.  I hadn’t made bread at home in over a month since we had been out of town, and well ya know,  summer… but when I saw artisanal multigrain loaves in the store selling [...]
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Root-Top Pie

By Alexa | Published: June 3, 2009
Spinach pie, it’s not just for spinach anymore! This week’s CSA box was chock full of root vegetables:  Japanese white salad turnips, French breakfast radishes, and beets, all with their green-tops nicely intact.  This often discarded part of the vegetable is delicious, and can be treated just like spinach: either steamed, sauteed, or boiled. When I [...]
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Making fresh, beautiful bread doing little more than watching and waiting

By Matthew | Published: December 16, 2008
I have a busy schedule. I would never have thought that I would be capable of baking an artisanal style crusty bread with minimal effort, and minimal ingredients, in the middle of the week,  but that’s exactly what I just did (I actually made two), and you can too.  On Monday night I decided [...]
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