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Shelled Wheat with Mushrooms and Feta: Cooking from the Pantry

May 14, 2020 By Laura 2 Comments

Shelled Wheat with Mushrooms and Feta

Shelled Wheat with Mushrooms and Feta is a great vegetarian pantry dish, flexible to what you have around.  Guys I had these pictures ready to go over a month ago. It’s weird the way this pandemic has made some people more productive and some of us it seems to have frozen. This isn’t entirely true… 

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Filed Under: Arugula, bulgur, grain bowl, Middle Eastern dishes, mushrooms, onions, pantry cooking, vegetarian, wheat berries Tagged With: caramelized onions, dill, feta, grain bowl, grains, Mediterranean, mushrooms, pantry cooking, shelled wheat

Vanilla Polka Dots: Pantry Baking

April 5, 2020 By Laura 4 Comments

Vanilla Polka Dots

Vanilla Polka Dots are simple and elegant cookies, redolent of vanilla, that are equally at home in holiday tins or being whipped up from your pantry with a substitute sugar on the outside. Do you like how I slipped in the substitute sugar comment? But it’s true–pandemic cooking and baking is not for the faint… 

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Filed Under: cookies, Holiday and Christmas Cookies, pantry cooking Tagged With: butter cookies, cookies, Holiday cookies, holiday tins, pantry baking, vanilla

Kitchen Sink Cookies: #CreativeCookieExchange

August 24, 2018 By Laura 1 Comment

Kitchen Sink Cookies

Kitchen Sink Cookies are chewy, delicious butter, brown sugar and vanilla cookies stuffed with whatever you have around that sounds good. And they are the perfect cookies to make really big; keep reading to see what other giant cookies the Creative Cookie Exchange bakers came up with. The coughing plot has thickened! Turns out all… 

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Filed Under: blog events, chocolate, chocolate chip cookies, coffee desserts, cookies, oats, pantry cooking, Pistachios Tagged With: #CreativeCookieExchange, bakery style cookies, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate chips, coffee beans, coffee grounds, cookies, Creative Cookie Exchange, giant cookies, ground coffee, nuts, oatmeal, oatmeal cookie, pistachios, potato chips

Dal with Kale-Coconut Tadka: Vegan Comfort Food

September 14, 2017 By Laura Leave a Comment

Dal with Kale-Coconut Tadka

Dal with Kale-Coconut Tadka is delicious, simple and filling, comfort food that fits with any season. Affiliate links have been used to link to items I am discussing. Follow my blog with Bloglovin People I am getting kinda old for general admission lines for concerts. I saw U2 (for the second time this summer) in… 

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Filed Under: Coconut (flaked), coconut milk, curry, dal, greens, Indian, Indian recipes, kale, lentils, lime, pantry cooking, split peas, Sri Lankan, vegan, vegetarian, yellow split peas Tagged With: chana dal, coconut, coconut flakes, coconut milk, curry, dal, greens, Indian, kale, lentils, lime, Sri Lankan, tadka, yellow split peas

Vinegared Bean Soup: soup, stew or both?

February 4, 2017 By Laura 1 Comment

Vinegared Bean Soup

Vinegared Bean Soup is bright and smoky at the same time, and it is the perfect chilly day comfort food, scenting the whole house as the beans simmer throughout the day. You can also let the beans cook while you are at work, and come home to finish assembling the soup in about thirty minutes…. 

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Filed Under: beans, easily made vegetarian, Latin, pantry cooking, soup, southwestern Tagged With: bean soup, beans, dried beans, red wine vinegar, soup, vinegar

Coconut Crusted Mahi Mahi with Masala Peas

June 11, 2016 By Laura 2 Comments

Mahi Mahi sautėed in a panko-coconut flake crust served with Masala Peas

Coconut Crusted Mahi Mahi with Masala Peas is a “clean out the pantry” Indian-inspired meal that hit it out of the ballpark–everyone loved this crispy, creamy, delicious dish! The mandate to use up everything in the freezer(s) continues, and the culprits that led to this meal were frozen tomatoes from last season, frozen curry leaves,… 

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Filed Under: Coconut (flaked), coconut milk, curry, fish, Indian recipes, pantry cooking, peas, sauces, seafood, tomatoes Tagged With: coconut, coconut flakes, coconut milk, curry, fish, Indian, mahi mahi, peas, seafood, tomatoes

Salsa Negra

September 7, 2015 By Laura 10 Comments

Salsa Negra is your new best friend in the kitchen–it will keep in the fridge, add zip to your cooking, and it is super easy to make! Affiliate links have been used in this post to link to items I am discussing. I have had a fantastic recipe for Spiralized Calabacitas sitting in my drafts folder… 

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Filed Under: balsamic, Dips, Mexican dishes, pantry cooking, salsas, sauces, vegetarian Tagged With: chipotle, condiment, east, mexican, salsa, salsa negra, sauce, weeknight

North Indian Baked Eggs: Review of Seven Spoons

July 16, 2015 By Laura 18 Comments

North Indian Baked Eggs--easy and delicious!

North Indian Baked Eggs are easy, fast and comforting; it is the kind of dish you turn to when you cannot think of what to make for dinner, and then end up thrilled with your meal! I received a copy of Seven Spoons from Blogging for Books in exchange for an honest review. Affiliate links have… 

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Filed Under: cookbooks, curry, eggs, Indian recipes, Italy 2015, pantry cooking, reviews, tomatoes, travel, vegetarian, yogurt Tagged With: baked eggs, Calabria, cookbook, cookbook review, eggs, Indian, Italy, Sila Grande, tomatoes, travel

Mushroom and Bean Burrito Bowl

March 14, 2015 By Laura 11 Comments

Vegetarian, healthy and super easy and fast!: Mushroom and Bean Vegetarian Burrito Bowl

This Mushroom and Bean Burrito Bowl is fast, healthy and delicious! It is also vegetarian–and hearty enough for dedicated meat-eaters. Affiliate links (to Amazon) have been used in this post to link to items I am discussing. I have had One Of Those Weeks. As a matter of fact, had I needed to make dinner,… 

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Filed Under: avocado, beans, corn, grain bowl, lime, mushrooms, pantry cooking, rice, southwestern, tomatoes, vegetarian, whole grains Tagged With: beans, black beans, burrito bowl, corn, fast, healthy, mexican, mushrooms, rice, rice bowl, southwestern, vegetarian, weeknight

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Hi! I’m Laura and I am a recovering history major who has re-channeled all of my passion for learning about the history of different countries to learning about their food culture. That doesn’t mean every dish on here is strictly authentic, but it does mean that even my adaptations are not undertaken lightly. My goal is to show you–by doing–that these dishes are possible in your kitchen. Including desserts because I have quite the sweet tooth! Read More…

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