Tag Archives: Dinner

What would you do if you were hungry?

By Alexa | Published: April 8, 2013
What would you do if you were hungry? For many of us, myself included, the answer is pretty straightforward – we would get something to eat. Well, first would have to figure out the details, like what we felt like eating, whether to splurge on going out or ordering in, or if we could muster [...]
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The Eggs of Affliction: Beet-Pickled Deviled Eggs

By Alexa | Published: April 1, 2013
Yesterday I made the prettiest thing I’ve ever made ever. No contest! Can you pick it out in the picture above?! Those beautiful ruby-red beet-pickled deviled eggs were the perfect addition to our pre-meal nosh. I had been meaning to make these eggs for a while, since I first came across them at brunch at [...]
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A New Kind of Kugel

By Alexa | Published: March 28, 2013
Confession: I’m not the biggest lover of kugel. I find most kugels heavy, filling, and bland. So when I came across this inspired reinterpretation in Martha Stewart Living’s April issue that she called a “potato kugel gratin”, I knew I wanted my passover kugel to go in this novel direction. In her version, potatoes are wedged [...]
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Tempeh Part I: Warm Tempeh, Farro, Roasted Carrot and Caraway Salad

By Alexa | Published: March 20, 2013
While I might catch flack for saying this, tempeh is the Rodney Dangerfield of vegan protein sources. Whether it is because people are more familiar with the other vegan protein that starts with a T (tofu), and so they confuse the two, people don’t know how to prepare it, or that it’s not often served [...]
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Chicken Soup: STAT!

By Alexa | Published: March 11, 2013
Winter may be drawing to a close, and the weather may be getting warmer, but from a Chinese medicine perspective this unpredictable seasonal change is an important time to eat healing, balancing soups. March is crazy like that: the wind is still whipping, there’s a chill in the air, and there’s still that nasty cold/flu/virus going [...]
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