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Southwestern Sweet Potato Hash Served With Cabbage & Corn Slaw With Cilantro-Orange Dressing

January 19, 2009 By Laura 8 Comments

Cabbage and Corn Slaw With Cilantro-Orange Dressing

Lunchtime guests always present a dilemma for me. Not an unwelcome dilemma, lest you are reading this and you are one of those guests, but a dilemma nonetheless. I am just not a lunch person. I love breakfast and I love dinner, but lunchtime with its cold options leaves me, well, cold. A lot of… 

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Filed Under: beans, corn, salads, skillet hash dishes, slaw, sweet potato, vegetarian

Braised Beef with Butternut Squash, Sweet Potatoes and Dried Cherries & A Kitchen In Progress

December 15, 2008 By Laura 7 Comments

I bet you guys wondered what on earth happened to the house pics.  What happened was I got a new camera phone–and became so enamored with it I stopped taking my camera out to the property.  In the meantime it took me forever to figure out how to upload the pictures taken with the phone…. 

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Filed Under: beef chuck, butternut squash, Dried Cherries, potatoes, sweet potato

Indian Vegetable Curry with Coconut Milk and Yogurt

June 20, 2008 By Laura 12 Comments

Nothing derails a food blog quite like a virus attacking the GI systems of the toddlers in the house. Not only are they sick— which is a time suck as they suddenly insist on being held 24 hours a day —and unable to eat what you cook, BUT they also are irrational and crabby, which… 

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Filed Under: coconut milk, garlic scapes, green beans, Indian recipes, potatoes, sweet potato, vegetarian

A Garden In A Bowl: West African Peanut Stew with Chicken, Spinach & Sweet Potatoes

May 14, 2008 By Laura 8 Comments

Oh wow this stew is good. Everyone in my family ate their serving down to the last morsel. It’s day 2 on the pot of soup and no one has suggested freezing it or ordering in for a night—everyone just wants more stew. My kids didn’t remove the spinach—and yes even my kids like to… 

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Filed Under: chicken, peanut butter, rice, stews, sweet potato

Thai Chicken Soup with Coconut Milk, Sweet Potato & Red Grapes

January 29, 2008 By Laura 3 Comments

Thai Soup with Coconut Milk, Grapes and Sweet Potatoes

This conversation took place at our dinner table last night: Alex: I WANT to salt my fooo-o-o-od! Me: Alex, in Thailand people don’t keep salt on the table. In Thailand, if you think your food is not salty enough, you put fish sauce on it. Alex: I do not like fish sauce! Me and John… 

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Filed Under: chicken, coconut milk, soup, sweet potato, Thai dishes

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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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