It’s been quite a while since I have posted a new recipe. Somehow life has been busier than normal – for one I have been working hard trying to resurrect my backyard after this supremely harsh winter (I have lost quite a few trees and other perennials and the worst of them has been the loss of a fig...
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Pickled Butter Beans
My college-going daughter introduced me to pickled butter beans available at the olive bar at Kroger in Bloomington, Indiana. It was love at first taste for me. So when I came back home I tried to look for these pickled beans at my local supermarket but they just didn’t seem to have any. Finally I found some at the...
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Sprouted Moong/Mung Beans Warm Salad
I love brightly colored dishes and this one is among the most colorful things I have ever made. The green from the sprouted beans, fresh cilantro leaves and green chili contrast so well with the deep red of the cranberries, the saturated yellow of the dried apricots and the bright white of the Tofu chunks! It wasn't just the...
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Baby Eggplant Tagine
I have an old friend coming over for dinner tonight and he told me that prefers to eat vegetarian meals. So I racked my head for a bit and decided to make a vegetable tagine. In any case, I had bought a couple of ceramic/terracotta Tagines from William Sonoma a few weeks ago and after much procrastination and foot-dragging,...
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Eggplant and Olive Tapenade
For the past two weeks I had completely neglected my poor blog. This was because I had to go on a whirlwind trip to India – for just one week!!! Usually the travel to and back from India is enough to knock me out and this time even more so because I made both the trips in such quick...
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