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Last month marked the end of my five-year absistence of consuming beef, which I stopped eating it in the first place for enviormental and health reasons. I started eating it again in preparation for my trip to Argentina over the holidays. I wanted to take full advantage of the region’s legendary grass-fed beef, so I [...]
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There’s no easier way to get rid of a bunch wilting winter vegetables than by dumping them into a pot of simmering broth. And that is exactly what I did with my half head of cabbage, two lonely sweet potatoes, and handful of button mushrooms. The only thing I bought for the soup was spinach.
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You could say this recipe was an accident. Originally, I tried roasting the peppers to make a salsa. But honestly, it was too hot for my taste so I added a dallop (or 3!) of sour cream to mellow it out. This made for a perfect chicken marinade; the sour cream kept the chicken moist [...]
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Summer has finally arrived in San Francisco and the last thing I want to do is turn on my oven and overheat my non-air conditioned apartment. On these rare warm days in the city, I turn to this super simple supper. In less than 20 minutes, I have a light and healthy one-pot meal highlighting [...]
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I’m up to my ears in zucchini! Not a CSA box has gone by in the past month where I haven’t received an armful. It’s given me a whole new perspective on “spring bounty.” While searching for new and creative ways to enjoy my zucchini, I stumbled across an Epicurious recipe, which I modified below, [...]
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Sometimes I play this game called “I’m too lazy to go to the supermarket, so what in my fridge can I coax into dinner??” Many times, this game ends very badly. But this time around it was a success! Using kitchen staples (eggs, olive oil, sea salt) and questionable scraps (potatoes developing roots, limp spinach, [...]
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Some people bring a bottle of wine with them to dinner when celebrating a special occasion, Kele’s family brings duck. So last weekend we hauled it up to Sacramento to partake in the annual family Duck Dinner, marking the end of this year’s duck hunting season. The dinner consists of going to a local Chinese [...]
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With snow dumping on the mountains, ski season is in full swing. And so in honor of the wonderful sport, Jillian and I have officially deemed this week “Ski Week”. Since we now know that taking a ski trip does not have to translate into boxed mac-n-cheese or Costco snacks, we will share our tried-and-true [...]
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I’ve always been intimidated by “braising” recipes, thinking they required hours bent over the stove or fancy pieces of cookware. Oh boy, was I wrong! Braising is one of the easiest techniques ever to deliver tender, juicy meat (or vegetables). And the best part is you can kick back on the couch while your dish [...]
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At the Marin farmer’s market on Sunday, I stopped dead in my tracks when I passed some beautiful, glossy, and almost enchanting globe eggplants sitting coyly in the shade. I still had a bad taste in mouth (literally and figuratively!) from having utterly failed at making baba ganoush the weekend past. But, at $1.50 a [...]
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