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small bites [recipes]

Stir-Fried Edamame

Tastier than chips and way better for you! This is the perfect party snack, for folks who aren’t skittish about eating with their fingers. Food is more fun if you can play with it!
There isn’t really a recipe for this, use your favorite aromatics to create the flavors you crave. [...]

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Summer Salad Rolls with Vietnamese Dipping Sauce

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This is one of my favorite summer time dishes. It couldn’t be simpler, no cooking involved just requires a few top quality, super fresh ingredients. After the enormous amount of super salad greens (there were many other colors in there too) from my CSA I decided that these had to be on the [...]

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5 minute tomato soup, this is not a joke

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School is out for summer! Yippee. Well, so far anyway.
Monday was a cool day, thunderstorms and rain. I asked the boys what they would like for lunch, they responded with soup. Looking through the pantry I could find all kinds of things to make soup, but I wanted something faster and easier. [...]

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Spring Cauliflower & Chickpeas (garbanzo beans)

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Finally the weather is nice enough to think that spring has sprung. One of the more frustrating things about spring here is that it is winter forever, then a day or two of spring, then pounce… summer.
This week was a first installment from our CSA. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture (click here to [...]

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crispy pea crisps

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I consider myself lucky that I have the hsa*ba Burmese Cookbook by Tin Cho Chan. To be honest I have never thought about Burmese food before. Cho started following me on Twitter and I then I found out about her website and her book. She states that hsa ba means please eat. OK, [...]

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Blueberry & Banana Smoothie

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What could be better than a bag of frozen blueberries in the freezer to make a winter day into summer? OK, so it isn’t exactly winter anymore but it sure isn’t summer either. Blueberries are indispensable in my house for anything from a quick smoothie to a smashingly speedy dessert.
This is my favorite [...]

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tzatziki

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A little something to go with those lamb chops! The perfect combination.
When I started making this I began with Ina Garten’s recipe. All her recipes work, you can always count on her! I used here recipe for ages, until I felt comfortable going out on my own and making it up as [...]

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Potato Chips from the Microwave? Come On

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I was sitting in the Orthodontists office the other day, I guess I had nothing better to do. Anyway, while flipping though the pages of Eating Well Magazine I saw a recipe for microwave potato chips. Really? That doesn’t seem possible or even tasty, yet I was so intrigued I had to give it [...]

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Biltong, A Lekker Adventure

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Voortrekkers we are not, we do not even have a covered wagon for goodness sake, but we are trekking ahead even without the biltong. We are no different from all the South African expats, we are longing for a taste of the memory. That is why the decision that an undertaking in the [...]

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Christmas Eve Crackers

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I love crackers, I especially love the crisp bread style like the La Panzenella croccantini from Seattle. They are expensive and hard to come in these parts. So I decided that it couldn’t be that hard to make my own. It really was very easy, and I am not a baker. I whipped these babies [...]

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