Mara's first ever attempt at uramaki turned out to be exceedingly edible. And, as you can see, beautiful. These have avocado, cucumber, and carrot inside...
What an inspiring blog entry! Seeing as how we both live in Amsterdam, and share more than a few interest PLUS NOW it seems that your Mara is a great cook. I'm wondering if we should have dinner sometime. ; ) I'll bring the kimchi and kombucha and...
The Nasty Bits Retrospective: 12 Ways to Eat Offal
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Wow, I've been writing about animal parts here for a while now. It was
tough picking just a dozen posts to highlight in this retrospective, but
here they a...
You Say Potato...in Bags
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*This is the eleventh in our biweekly series from Amy Pennington — urban
farmer, founder of GoGo Green Garden, and author of Urban Pantry and Apartment
G...
rhubarb snacking cake
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Rhubarb Snacking Cake This cake was inspired by one I saw in Martha Stewart
Living this month, but I changed a lot. Instead of making it in two 9-inch
squa...
London tips?
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Usually I give you tips about my favourite places, generally in Amsterdam
(but got some recommendations for places to visit in Croatia in the
making!), but...
Pasta with yogurt sauce
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A classic of Lebanese home cooking, this sauce can be prepared with or
without meat; it is ideal for warm days because the yogurt sauce is not
cooked; i...
Three Bean Salad Recipe
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This salad recipe doesn't call for any vinegar or lemon juice in the
dressing. The natural acidity of the nectarines is all you'll need. As an
added bonu...
Vietnamese Iced Coffee Tips (Ca-Phe Sua Da)
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Earlier this year I spent a couple of days making and tasting numerous
rounds of Vietnamese iced coffee. It was for a Bon Appetit assignment that
was publi...
MY VEGAN "BUTTERMILK" BISCUIT QUEST
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I don't know what it is with me about Southern cooking this month. Early
in May it was spoon bread, last week it was South Carolina Gold BBQ Sauce,...
Awesome Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie
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[image: Awesome Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie]
This recipe started as a request from my goddaughter Piper and her sister
Alden. They noticed I didn't have...
SALAD DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!
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Ensalada mixta--a family-sized salad.
Garden alert! The lettuce is bolting! Yikes! Make salad. Make two salads. Make more salads. Warm weather shoots the l...
Best Meatloaf
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It’s not your grandma’s meatloaf, it’s better… there, I said it! I know,
some of you are thinking “them’s fightin’ words” and hitting unsubscribe
right now...
Rasmalai
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Have you noticed that I haven’t posted that many recipes of Indian
desserts/sweets here? Well, I’ve posted a number of Payasam/Kheer recipes
and a Gajar (c...
Chicken 65
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Chicken 65 recipe at last! Despite numerous requests on how to make chicken
65, I never got down to blogging it until today.
Read rest of the story at my b...
Kelp Noodles
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Have you ever tasted kelp noodles? They're different. And delicious.
Lately, I've been eating more than my fair share of kelp noodles and I have
to say I'm...
The Waiting Game
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This is what things have come to over here. I decided that the anemia rendering me a black-eye-shadowed zombie needed to be given a swift kick in the you-kno...
around the table.
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The other night, someone I have been wanting to meet for years came over
for dinner. Andrew Hyde is a vagabond traveler, master designer,
enlightened laugh...
Sprout Salad
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A truck just pulled up in front of my house and dropped off a palette of
flattened boxes. A tower, really. As tall as I am, and then some. I've
spent a ...
The Amazing Khasta Kachori
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Kachoris are fried flaky pastries stuffed with a dried lentil and
spice mixture. It is usually served as snacks at teatime and sometimes it
is even had wi...
Boucan Restaurant, St. Lucia
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This post was from a recent trip to St. Lucia. I was sent by HighLine Foods
to travel the island sampling and studying the seafood culture. I took my
job v...
Cafe de Walvis: my new local?
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There’s something that feels very British about the concept of ‘popping
down the local,’ although I’m sure other cultures must have the equivalent.
To cons...
Amsterdam Terrace Lounging, Part 2
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Two years ago we blogged about some of the nicest terraces to drop in on
for a drink in the sun (that post is here). But with this sudden bout of
lovely w...
Chicken Gravy With Coconut And Yogurt
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Last year in September when I visited India, my pachi (aayi’s sister) came
to visit us. I asked her for some of her favorite recipes. She promised to
sen...
Twice-Fried Chicken with Sriracha Honey
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[image: Chicken]
So, this was a cooking fear that I faced recently — fried chicken.
Seriously, I’ve always been a little intimidated by it and by imagini...
That'll do, Pig
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Out to the cemetery yesterday, and I came across this pig. Not sure which
grave it belongs to, as the marker behind it faces the other direction.
Is ...
Cities as Software/Libraries as Software
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Two posts that have excited me this morning:
Cities as Software, Marcus Westbury
"[Y]ou need to start by rewriting – or hacking – the software to change n...
homemade skin care products
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What we have here is almost entirely edible.
However, nothing is meant to be eaten.
And nothing is green, chocolate, or filled with Bailey’s Irish Cream....
Vegetarian Shahi Kofta Masala Recipe
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Since The Spice Club’s feature on the Hairy Bikers, we have been inundated
with requests for our Shahi Kofta Masala recipe which was shown on the
episode. ...
4 comments:
Dear Vegetarian Duck,
What an inspiring blog entry! Seeing as how we both live in Amsterdam, and share more than a few interest PLUS NOW it seems that your Mara is a great cook. I'm wondering if we should have dinner sometime. ; ) I'll bring the kimchi and kombucha and...
Or...
Warm regards,
Debra
Yes, yes, ok! You are 1000% correct, we will be getting together in no time at all, for realz this time, yo.
I've actually been thinking about culiblog quite often lately b/c I'm getting ready to make my own kimchi for the first time...
but we'll talk more about that soon...
they're gorgeous. I can't even get the ones with the seaweed on the outside right yet!!
hey sal...
i asked Mara if she had any tips on sushi rolling, and she said, "ummmm...no".
she has absolutely no idea how she did it, but she said when we do it again next week she'll do an in-depth analysis...
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