Category Archives: Food

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  Pancake Wednesday

  Posted on February 25, 2012 by Aparna B. in Breakfast, Food

  Happy weekend to you all! So I realized last week that when I posted the WIAW post, I never actually shared the recipe I used for the red velvet chocolate chip pancakes! Miss Diana reminded me about it so I thought it would be nice to do that now. I apologize in advance for the [...]

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  Vegetarian Croque-Monsieur

  Posted on February 24, 2012 by Aparna B. in Food, Main Dish, Vegetarian

  In keeping up with my obsession with Paris, I decided to make a vegetarian croque-monsieur. If you’ve never had a croque-monsieur before, it’s basically a glorified French grilled ham and expensive-cheese sandwich. Well ham is not so much our cup of tea, so instead we used tomato. Pin It It doesn’t take very long to [...]

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  Presidents Day Soup

  Posted on February 20, 2012 by Aparna B. in Food, Soup, Vegetarian

  I think I’ve mentioned before that I started a new job this year. In my previous job, I traveled almost every two weeks and was away a lot. While it was fun and a perfect time in my life to travel and see the country, near the end, I was ready to just be home [...]

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  Mushroom Risotto For Two

  Posted on February 18, 2012 by Aparna B. in Food, Italian, Vegetarian

  Risotto is one of my favorite foods of all time. I LOVE it! The main problem, of course, is that it’s almost always made with chicken stock or broth. That doesn’t make it very vegetarian friendly. I always feel like the annoying customer who has to ask, “Is your risotto made with chicken broth or [...]

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  Israeli Couscous with Roasted Veggies and Tempeh

  Posted on February 16, 2012 by Aparna B. in Food, Vegetarian

  I don’t know about any of you, but I’m one of those gals who likes the pearled, or Israeli, couscous and not the superfine kind. I think the latter is a little too gritty but maybe I’ve never had it made correctly.  This recipe had roasted veggies, spices, chickpeas and tempeh. Proteinalicious! Before this recipe, [...]

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  Vanilla Poached Pears

  Posted on February 9, 2012 by Aparna B. in Desserts, Food, Vegetarian

  International eating is what took place in our home tonight. It all started with REB and I wanting to do something with the leftover block of tofu we had. We hadn’t made any kind of Asian food in a while, so we decided to do our recipe of General’s Tofu. We used up some mushrooms [...]

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  Lemon Grilled Tofu with Mediterranean Chopped Salad

  Posted on February 8, 2012 by Aparna B. in Food, Main Dish, Salads, Vegetarian

    The winter blues. OK scratch that. We haven’t really had much of a winter here, but it’s gone back to the weird, annoying cold weather. I swear, one day it’s in the mid-40s and the next it’s in the 20s. It’s also sad that I find 40-degree weather to be warm. Ah, Michigan. So [...]

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  Cashew-Mushroom Pâté

  Posted on February 5, 2012 by Aparna B. in Food, Starters & Snacks, Vegetarian

  Made this tonight for the big game in addition to some other dips. We saw this recipe on the same site as the Seitan Piccata from the Vegetarian Times. We made a few changes, but it tasted really good! I’ve never had pâté but that’s probably because it’s usually spreadable liver of some animal or [...]

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  Roasted Chickpeas with Rosemary and Sea Salt

  Posted on February 2, 2012 by Aparna B. in Food, Starters & Snacks, Vegetarian

  While REB and I are back on our health track, I have to admit I’ve had some cravings for bad, salty treats that I shouldn’t eat. You know, things like chips, chex mix…those kinds of bad things. So instead, I decided to make a snack that’s so easy to make and not terribly bad for [...]

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  Salade Chèvre Chaud

  Posted on January 21, 2012 by Aparna B. in Food, Main Dish, Salads, Vegetarian

  Warm goat cheese salad. It was our favorite thing to eat at the Café Bosquet in Paris during our honeymoon. We’ve made this before, but we revisited it tonight and OH. EM. GEE. I won’t lie, it turned out even better. And tasted even better. So I thought it might be nice to re-post the [...]

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