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Coffee colored memories

2008-07-16T19:01:03Z

American coffee was the biggest culture shock we had on our first visit to the US. I almost gagged at my first sip of the Starbucks Roast. This was not coffee. Where was the milk? The sugar? The sweet stickiness that was supposed to coat the back ...

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Weeknight dinner- Curd Rice

2008-07-16T00:34:03Z

With microwave semolina idlis and coconut cilantro chutney. The hardest part of this recipe was mashing my perfectly cooked, long, separate grains of fragrant Basmati rice into the creamy mush that is curd rice. [That's conditioning for you.] The...

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The debate

2008-07-15T04:11:46Z

Pros of current apartment: - Brand new - and spanking clean - Big, beautiful, white kitchen, with new appliances (you know how I love to cook) - Attached baths to both bedrooms (A and I have separate bathrooms!) - Walking distance to library an...

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The city at night- Photo Quest # 20

2008-07-13T13:37:37Z

I've been wanting to do this ever since we moved here. To your right is the riverfront park with an amphitheatre that seats 2500. To your left is the Amtrak station. A double-click on the picture will reveal the second bridge up front on...

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Broccoli polenta with pesto

2008-07-12T04:08:43Z

The first time I tried polenta, it was out of those supermarket tube shaped packages, disappointingly bland, barely rescued by our spicy marinara. This killer homegrown version is a different animal grain altogether, rendering the accompanying pes...

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The Big Read

2008-07-11T03:34:33Z

( I am exceeding my rule of one post a day, but I can't believe I missed this! Doh.) “The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.” 1) Bold: I have read. 2) Underline: Books I love. 3) Reprint...

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What happened last night

2008-07-11T00:56:16Z

From here. Can you believe that this was the last thing I stumbled upon? It was so on-the-spot I decided to go to sleep. :)

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Sweet semolina pudding

2008-07-10T01:02:30Z

Okay, so I really shouldn't have. We were both craving dessert, and I couldn't help but remember the Gorgeous wheat pudding recipe the folks at my favorite food blog had posted recently. Wheat flour pudding, aka aate ka halwa, was a Sunday breakfa...

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Vegetarian Cottage Pie with Toast

2008-07-09T02:05:38Z

Life has been kinda morbid lately. So I dealt with it the usual way..get through the day with minimal possible effort, watch Extreme Cakes on TV, read through a novel, and cook my heart out. Tempeh Cottage Pie (adpated from the Veganomicon's Temp...

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Fourth of July breakfast

2008-07-04T14:02:03Z

Seriously Reduced fat banana muffins with tea. . I used the Post Punk Kitchen's recipe (for banana bread) with some changes, replacing all the oil with apple sauce and halving the sugar. I also replaced half of the all purpose flour with fine-...

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