Warm Lentil Salad with Goat Cheese and Smoked Paprika

This is one of those drop everything and go make this now recipes.  It was that good.  In fact, so good I bumped it up
in my queue of posts.
I made this recipe two nights ago thinking it would pretty tasty because I love lentils and smoked paprika, and I was lured in by the picture [...]

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Chipotle Chicken Quesadillas

I’m sure everyone has that go-to meal that when you have no idea what to make for dinner, you can always fall
back on this dish.  For some people that means a meal that can be made from ingredients you always have on hand (for me the only thing I could make at any given time [...]

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Creamy Garlic Italian Dressing

Now, you would think I served this withe the Sicilian tuna steaks, and while that would be a great combination, I
didn’t.  Instead I made some pizza with friends one night and served a salad with this creamy, garlicky dressing on the side.  It’s one of those salad dressings that’s really worth making at home, because [...]

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Spicy Lemongrass Tofu

I’ve been very faithful to my favorite way to prepare tofu, which is the Grit restaurant way of crisping cubes in a pan, sprinkling on
soy sauce, giving them another crisping, then dusting them with nutritional yeast.  I found another recipe that gives tofu so much flavor it really surprised me.  This recipe, from Pleasures of [...]

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Eggplant with Coconut Milk

This was my personal favorite recipe from the Vietnamese meal that I cooked this weekend, but you know I’m a sucker for eggplant.
The eggplant turned out perfectly tender in a rich coconut milk sauce that was almost like a curry, but much easier and faster to make.  If you don’t love eggplant, I think you [...]

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Jaime Oliver’s Eggplant Parmesan

I wish I took a picture of this right after it came out of the oven because it was beautiful.  The picture I managed to take after the
carnage is not so beautiful, but you get the point.  I made this Eggplant Parmesan last night from a Jaime Oliver recipe, deceptive in its simplicity.  There’s no [...]

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Syrian Lamb Kebabs

I had these kebabs a few months ago and realized they were what I was looking for when I made the Greek Kefetedes.  Those were good,
but these were better because they have that all-important allspice, which I’m really diggin’ right now.  It makes meat so much more interesting.  This recipe comes from the New York [...]

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Chicken Shawarma

This recipe is going on the repeat list, which is a pretty short list for me.  Maybe it’s the name that I like so much, or maybe it was the chicken, which had the most amazing spice rub on it.  The nuggets of chicken were so tender and juicy and flavorful I couldn’t stop eating [...]

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Meyer Lemon Semifreddo with Mixed Berries

This was far and away the star of the show last weekend.  I saw this recipe in Bon Appetit a while ago and was drawn to it because it seemed like ice cream that you didn’t need an ice cream maker to make.  And I love lemon and berries.  Overall, this was pretty simple to [...]

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Grilled Eggplant and Artichoke Panini

This panini was the centerpiece of our mother’s day lunch and was quick and easy to make (and can be prepped ahead of time) and can satisfy vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike.  The artichoke caper spread is especially good and you could put it on a lot of different sandwiches- it would complement chicken or beef [...]

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