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Cinco de Mayo Mexican Recipes Round Up

April 27, 2013 By Laura 1 Comment

Mexican Cheese and Zucchini Soup

Sopa Tarasca (Tarascan Soup) with garnishes I don’t normally post round ups of previous recipes, but noticing all of the Cinco de Mayo recipes popping up everywhere around the web, it just seemed so silly that once again I had not gotten my act together in time. Especially when my site specializes in international recipes… 

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Filed Under: beans, chicken, Mexican dishes, misc, soup, southwestern, tacos Tagged With: casseroles, Cinqo de Mayo, mexican, recipes, soups, tacos

Calabacitas With Seared-Then-Simmered Pork Tenderloin

August 19, 2011 By Laura 6 Comments

I mentioned in my last post that I fell in love with Vienna.  The building that really got me was not the famed opera house or St. Stephens’ Cathedral, the gothic heart of the city.  Instead it was Karlskirche, an early 18th century cathedral of fascinating design

Filed Under: corn, easily made vegetarian, Mexican dishes, pork, southwestern, stews, tomatoes, travel, zucchini

Spicy Southwestern Rice & Bean Bake: A Review of Not Your Mother’s Casseroles

May 18, 2011 By Laura 6 Comments

Christmas came to The Spiced Life this May!  A friend of my dad’s, who graduated high school with him, passed my card onto his daughter, who works for The Harvard Common Press.  She has my pre-mom dream job, she works in the cookbook division, where she also worked on their cooking blog (Harvard Common Press… 

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Filed Under: beans, casseroles, cookbooks, reviews, rice, southwestern, tomatoes, vegetarian, zucchini

Steak Fajitas

March 7, 2011 By Laura 10 Comments

I am well aware this is post is going to garner me a derisive phone call from my mom and a possibly even more derisive message from my sister. And maybe even some derisive comments from you all as well (please be gentle). But still I persevere on, for your own edification as well as… 

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Filed Under: beef, southwestern, steak

Mexican Green Gazpacho With Shrimp

August 2, 2010 By Laura 9 Comments

My sister visited recently, and one thing we always do when she visits is cook. Recently we have liked to make Indian food especially, but the doctor has her on a low carb diet at the moment pertaining to some health issues, and so we thought it might be better to skip the copious rice… 

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Filed Under: avocado, corn, cucumbers, soup, southwestern, tomatillos, tomatoes

Weekday Chilaquiles With a Fried Egg On Top

February 12, 2010 By Laura 6 Comments

As many of you know, being a FoodBuzz Featured Published comes with occasional perks of new items to try for free. Most recently that item was Egglands Best Eggs. Listen, you know all things being equal I prefer local, free-roaming eggs. But not everyone has access to local eggs and even those of us who… 

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Filed Under: eggs, Mexican dishes, southwestern, tortilla dishes

Maple Chipotle Pork Tenderloin With Green Chili Stew

January 24, 2010 By Laura 5 Comments

This is one of those dishes where my photographs are not doing it justice. As far as I am concerned, it is restaurant worthy–but between a hungry family and my own lack of imagination, the right set up did not occur to me. Believe me when I say you should make this the next time… 

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Filed Under: pork, southwestern, stews, tomatillos

A Drunken Pot ‘O’ Beans

October 15, 2009 By Laura 14 Comments

I’ve had a hectic, back and forth to Columbus, lingering virus, blah blah blah week or so, and when I recently got back from Columbus I did not want to think about anything complicated for dinner. As a matter of fact, what I really wanted was beans. It may surprise you to learn that while… 

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Filed Under: beans, easily made vegetarian, soup, southwestern

A Fix Of Creamy Poblano Soup

August 12, 2009 By Laura 2 Comments

I made sopa de lima the other day because John was feeling under the weather and soup seemed right, even thought it was hot. Well since then, it seems like we have been craving more soup, as though we were addicts who had broken the addiction for summer–but once we had one bowl, we kept… 

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Filed Under: easily made vegetarian, soup, southwestern

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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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