4:05 pm in Food & Health, Weekday Vegetarian by TreeHugger
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This recipe is actually for something called fregola, which was new to me. It is apparently,
"tiny, toothsome balls of pasta". Given that I'm at the cottage, I was reasonably certain that fregola would not be on offer at my local general store. But, of course,
couscous is tiny, toothsome balls of pasta as well, and that was easy to find. ...
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5:29 pm in Food & Health, vegan, Weekday Vegetarian by TreeHugger
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Okay, I am now offcially disgusted with myself. I took a healthy
avocado, dipped it in egg, breaded it and then fried it. Yes, I did, and it was totally delicious. And then I made a little dip of sriracha sauce and mayonnaise. I've been reading various websites over the past couple of months looking a recipes for avocado fries thinking to myself "who would eat that?" Well, it turns out, me. And my husband. We both loved it. Wow, it was really good, and not something I'm going to repeat any time soon. It felt incredibly decadent, but hey, ...
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2:35 pm in Food & Health, Weekday Vegetarian by TreeHugger
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I admit that I like a
Bloody Mary as much as the next person, especially on a hot sunny afternoon. It always seems like a very
summery drink to me. It takes me back to carefree summer afternoons at my in-laws' cottage when we would sit under a tree looking out to the lake with a Bloody Mary in hand. In fact, I like the combination of the ingredients of the drink as much as the alcohol content and it makes my tongue tingle just to think about it. So when I saw thi...
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8:18 am in Food & Health, Weekday Vegetarian by TreeHugger
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My friend Barb, who I am travelling with in the
French Alps, is a professed non-cook. However, she announced the other night that she could make
artichokes and would make them for dinner. The artichokes here are bigger than any I have ever cooked, and two artichokes shared amongst four people was more than enough. Much as I do love artichokes, I have always viewed them as a device to move butter into my mouth. Consequently, I usually make the easiest thing possible, melted butt...
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4:33 pm in Food & Health, Weekday Vegetarian by TreeHugger
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I have always been a proponent of healthy eating, and I've done a lot of cooking of
legumes and vegetables over the past few years, but all caution has been thrown to the wind on my trip to France. Who can resist walking down to the boulangerie every morning for a
baguette that is still hot? I feel virtuous because I have succumbed to the allure of a croissant (which was as good as any I ever eaten) only once. But, after sharing a rather large fondue of t...
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2:51 am in Food & Health, Weekday Vegetarian by TreeHugger
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I'm travelling in the
French alps and we were in the
farmers' market the other day and came across a table covered entirely with garlic. In fact, I've never seen so much garlic in one place before. One of the members of our group thought roasted garlic should become a menu item for us, so we bought garlic. A lot of garlic. In fact, we bought so much garlic, that the lady tending the booth threw some more i...
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4:28 pm in Food & Health, Weekday Vegetarian by TreeHugger
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I have noticed that people don't
entertain very much any more, even in the most casual way. People seem to think that having people over is a big production and it's too much work or expense, or it will be hard to do. I myself
entertain quite often, and I can tell you that it really doesn't need to be that way at all....
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I just arrived home yesterday afternoon from my sojourn in the 
I'm vacationing in the 
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This is a nice spread to keep in your refrigerator for when you need a mid-afternoon pick-me-up, or if you invite some friends over for a glass of wine. You can serve it with 
