Tag Archives: Leftovers

Soup and Sandwich

After cooking for guests both Friday and Saturday night, our kitchen is stocked with the makings for some pretty stellar leftover meals. Tonight we had a simple soup and sandwich dinner: Pumpkin soup and grilled cheese on homemade sweet potato challah with arugula and pickled red onions (those onions are making it into EVERYTHING [...]
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Leftovers Pancake

We always keep leftovers, even small amounts, and this is the kind of dish that makes use of all the little bits of leftovers in the fridge.   This is a quick savory pancake for an easy lunch or dinner.  This time, I was working with leftover brown rice, scallions and kimchi (spicy Korean pickled cabbage), [...]
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Pesto

Nothing says summer quite like pesto. Pesto is easy to make and freezes wonderfully so you can tap back into the summer any time you’d like. Pesto 5 cups basil, losely packed 1 clove garlic 1/3 cup pine nuts Olive oil Freshly grated Parmesan cheese Freshly ground pepper This recipe relies heavily on a Cuisinart. First place the garlic in the cuisinart and [...]
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Greetings from a Kitchen in Queens!

After our trip to ‘H-Mart‘ on Northern Blvd in Great Neck, we got some wonderful purple kale fitting of a nice Macrobiotic Plate. The Chinese way of healthy cooking simply cooks the food in order to help the body’s digestion start the process of breaking down nutrient-rich vegetables. Macrobiotic cooking focuses on steamed hearty [...]
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