Food + Drink
Scenes from My Pantry: Tabbouleh Summer Salad
Tabbouleh is a Middle Eastern salad traditionally made with parsley, mint, tomatoes, bulgur (cracked wheat) lemon juice and olive oil. Like the spelling of Tabbouleh or Taboule, or Tabouli, the variations are endless. Traditional Lebanese and Israeli versions are focused squarely on the herbs, and the bulgur is meant only to be a garnish.
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Ultimate Double Chocolate Cookies
Wine and chocolate can be an incredible pairing, together competing for immediate attention. Eating these cookies is like eating “fudge, a brownie, and a cookie at the same time” and paired with a cabernet or zinfandel is cause for swooning, and an intense in your face experience. Saturday evening was reserved for Wine Club and
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Food + Drink
Dirt to Table Experiences: Old-Fashioned Vegetable Beef Soup
A walk through my winter garden beds reveal damaged leaves from late evenings of below freezing temperatures, soggy root systems caused by the deluge of rain that quickly followed. A bed of stunning bok choy was given up as a sacrifice to save my large head cabbages from pesky garden pests. Mother Nature was not
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Food + Drink
Dark Chocolate Black Bean Brownies
I would have probably raised my eyebrow had it been mentioned that black beans would be a healthy alternative ingredient to flour in brownies. It would have been difficult to imagine. Obviously I am behind in the baking times…Not anymore. I am a believer. With the rise in sensitivity to gluten it has become known
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Easy Lemon Cookies
One bowl, five ingredients, a roll in confectioners sugar, what is not to love. Easy Lemon Cookies Makes 15-18 Recipe from allrecipes.com Ingredients: 1 box (16-18 ounces) package lemon cake mix 2 eggs 1/3 cup vegetable oil 1 teaspoon lemon extract 1/3 cup confectioners sugar Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F
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Big, Fat, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
In case you are in the mood for chocolate chip cookies……And you don’t have a personal recipe to call your own. Big, Fat, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies Makes about 18 cookies Recipe from All Recipes Ingredients 2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup insalted butter, melted