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Spicy Black Bean Soup for Snowy Weather

New Years Day was a bit chilly in MA, and we needed something semi-healthy to kick off a new year, and to detox from the night before.  I’ve been told to eat Black Eyed Peas on New Years Day for good luck, but we didn’t have any, so we settled for some Black Beans instead.

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Baked Egg with Spinach, Fresh Basil and Mimolette

This was New Years Day food, because New Years Eve was a rough one this year, so eggs were needed the next day. This is a special baked egg because I topped it with Mimolette, one of our cheeses from the New Yrs Eve platter.  It was a pretty mild cheese and worked well on [...]

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THE Lasagne

This is one of my favourite dishes to cook.  It takes a bit of time, though, so be ready to give yourself about 2 hours of cooking and prep time.  I like mine to be spicy, because I like the combination of the sweet squash with some spicy red chili, and a creamy (fake) bechamel [...]

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Hooray for non-microwaved food: Boozy Leek and Butternut Squash PIE

So this temp job I have requires eight consecutive ten-hour work days, followed by 6 days off.  For those 8 days, I am confined to hotel-room microwave cooking.  Hence the gap between posts.  During the first eight day session I subsisted off of microwaved baked potatoes, sweet potatoes, couscous, and soup.  I tried one frozen [...]

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Deconstructed Stuffed Peppers?

I’m not so sure this recipe qualifies as a deconstructed stuffed peppers, I was really going for a free form stuffed pepper, but deconstructed just sounds so much fancier. Use big bell peppers to make a prettier dish! Experiment with the stuffing, quinoa or some variation of Spanish Rice would be good.  I had originally [...]