April 2008

Main Courses

Vegetarian lasagna with sweet italian sausage

The title is a bit misleading, eh? Well, I had the best of intentions and set out to build a delightfully vegetarian lasagna. I ran to the store to buy missing ingredients and immediately set to work on the lasagna assembly. Mid-way through my tummy began to growl and before I knew it, I was [...]

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Main Courses

Fried tofu with pea shoot salad

I’m going to be honest and tell you that I did not want to cook anything tonight for dinner. I woke up this morning with a stuffed up nose and throbbing headache. I forced myself to work today and when it came time for dinner, I didn’t know what to do. I felt guilty about [...]

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Cookbooks

Book review: A Baker’s Odyssey by Greg Patent

Title: A Baker’s Odyssey (includes DVD) Author: Greg Patent Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0764572814 Recently nominated for a 2008 James Beard Foundation Book Award, A Baker’s Odyssey: Celebrating Time-Honored Recipes From America’s Rich Immigrant Heritage is the latest work from Greg Patent. In this book, Patent explores and successfully captures immigrant cooking in [...]

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