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Our Edible Garden + A Spicy Peanut Kale Salad

I admit, I am not very good in the garden. I could easily be called a plant killer. But, after all, it just makes perfect sense for me to have an edible garden. I am already making all of our condiments (just made both peanut butter and hazelnut spread), have gradually omitted all the products in [...]

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Almond Date Truffles (Vegan)

I have been in the kitchen non stop since before Thanksgiving. Baking, creating, cooking, organizing, and eating. After baking thousands of cookies, bars, making candy, and teacakes, for holiday gifting, believe it or not, I ran out of stuff. I still had several on my list that I could not neglect, yet the idea of [...]

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Tomato + Roasted Red Pepper Chutney + Lamb Sausages

Halloween is days away. Our house has been deemed the “meeting place” which inevitably means dinner first. What do I feed 12 boys, ranging in age from 7 – 14 without spending my entire weekly grocery budget on that one meal? We have done away with hot dogs and instead have adopted sausages in it’s [...]

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Slow Roasted Roma Tomatoes + So Much More

I admit to not having a green thumb. When I moved into my first apartment back in 1979, while attending U.C. Berkeley, I killed ALL of my plants. Although I have been somewhat successful with growing herbs and greens, veggies have not become my garden’s friend. However, my girlfriend, on the other hand, has had [...]

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Green Lentil Caviar

By Thursday or Friday everything that I have prepped for the weeks meals and snacks are pretty much gone. Turning little bits of this and that gives me the mid-week creative boost that I need. Without it, my kids would be eating quesadillas and cucumber slices for dinner. That would not go over well with [...]

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