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Carrot and Chickpea Salad

This post is for my brother Andrew. He left last week for a 4-month public health research trip in Karachi, Pakistan. He has started a fascinating blog about living in Pakistan and working at the Indus Hospital. Anyway, when he isn’t being a public health superhero, it feels like he is sending me emails about [...]

Chopped Greek Salad

Now that the weather is warming up in Vegas, I’m starting to crave crunchy and cool salads for lunch. As much as I enjoy salads, it is sometimes pretty easy to get in a salad rut, especially since most nights we have a green salad as part of our dinner. While this Chopped Greek Salad [...]

Moroccan Couscous Soup

I made up this recipe for Moroccan Couscous Soup after seeing a couple of different recipes that used couscous as the base for a soup flavoured with harissa. Basically I emptied the fridge and pantry of all the things that needed to be used up and tossed them in the soup. You can follow this [...]

Chickpea, Potato, and Kale Curry

Wow, life around here has been crazy! I got back from Austin last Tuesday night and it took a few days to catch up on everything that I had missed while we were gone, as well as to catch up on some much needed sleep. Then we were off to Los Angeles for the weekend [...]

Winter Vegetable Chili

We have never been the kind of people who cook and eat a prescriptive diet. There are no pork chop Wednesdays or spaghetti Thursdays in our house, and the same 5 or 6 dishes aren’t cooked week in and week out. We have always enjoyed making different meals to taste and always anticipate cooking something [...]

Vegetables and White Beans with Sausages

We have been slowly eating more and more vegetables instead of meat over the last six months or so, but my goal for 2010 is to eat even more vegetables. A few months ago, I read Mark Bittman’s book Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating, which discusses all of the health and environmental impacts [...]

Roasted Vegetable Soup with White Beans and Spinach

Ever since we came back from Tucson, I feel like my diet has largely consisted of Asian food and beer. I’m addicted to this new Sichuan restaurant, Yun Nan Garden in Asiaville (Carlo’s term for Vegas’ China Town), and I dream about their spicy and tongue numbing food ALL the time. When we weren’t eating [...]

Veggie Shepherd’s Pie with Sweet Potato Mash

I don’t know about you, but my jeans were feeling a wee bit snug after Thanksgiving. Don’t most Americans gain something like 5 pounds between Thanksgiving and Christmas? I don’t know the exact researched amount, but I just know that I don’t want to frighten children in my bathing suit when we go to Mexico [...]

Mexican Pumpkin Soup

I just “celebrated” my 8th month anniversary of being unemployed. While I knew that it was going to be hard to find a job, I had no idea that it would be as exhausting as what it has turned out to be. Thankfully, cooking–and by default this blog–has become my unemployment therapy. I’ve always enjoyed [...]

Winter Minestrone

There is nothing better than cooking up a huge vat of soup over the weekend and having an arsenal of lunches in the fridge so you barely have to cook during the week. This Winter Minestrone is packed full of vegetables, but isn’t some sissy soup. Instead it has nuggets of carrots, lots of greens, [...]

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