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Provencal Chickpea Dip

By on December 6, 2012 in Appetizers, French, Recipes, Vegetarian

When you’re gearing up for the launch of your first cookbook, and trying to work on two blogs while planning a book launch party, weekdays can get a bit hectic. Sit-down lunches start becoming a luxury. Heck, lunch becomes a luxury. Or at least, lunch that doesn’t involve grabbing a slice of pizza on the go. Last week, after [...]

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Potato Salad with Bacon and Barbecue Sauce

By on August 27, 2012 in Appetizers, Recipes

You know how everyone has a few dishes in their repertoire that they have made the same way for as long as they can remember? Those dishes that you learned once, thought they tasted pretty good, and so you never wavered from the familiar way you were taught? For me one of those dishes in [...]

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Greek Kale Salad

By on July 26, 2012 in Appetizers, Recipes, Salads, Vegetarian

July is the time of year when I go in for my yearly physical. This year, the results came back fine and dandy as usual, except for one tiny thing — I have a slight iron deficiency. Of course, that’s very minor in the spectrum of problems a doctor can phone you about, but it’s also a little [...]

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Tomatoes Provencales

By on January 6, 2012 in Appetizers, French, Recipes, Vegetarian

January, the unofficial month in America for diets and cleanses and general low-fat eating, might seem like an odd time to cook a bunch of recipes from Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Especially if you’re someone who, for example, ate an average of 6 to 8 cookies at day for the last two weeks. (But [...]

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