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Green Tomato Curry with Peanuts and Yellow Split Peas

November 25, 2016 By Laura 15 Comments

Green Tomato Curry with Peanuts and Yellow Split Peas

Green Tomato Curry with Peanuts and Yellow Split Peas is a delicious and easy way to use up the last of the tomato harvest. For that matter, I would grow tomatoes just to pick them underripe and make this! It is not often I get to wax poetic on this site about a savory dish… 

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Filed Under: curry, green tomatoes, Indian recipes, peanuts, split peas, vegetarian Tagged With: curry, green tomatoes, Indian, peanuts, split peas, vegan, vegetarian, yellow split peas

Thai Inspired Peanut Curry

September 14, 2015 By Laura 10 Comments

Thai Inspired Peanut Curry with summer veggies, ground beef, coconut milk and a little red curry paste! Easy, delicious and fast!

Thai Inspired Peanut Curry is a healthy, delicious and easy dinner that makes the most of the late summer harvest while welcoming the brisker chill of fall. Affiliate links have been used to link to items I am discussing in this post.  There are many reasons I love fall the best. Football (Go Blue!). Sweaters…. 

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Filed Under: beef, coconut milk, corn, curry, easily made vegetarian, ground beef, peanut butter, peanuts, Thai dishes, zucchini Tagged With: beef, corn, curry, curry paste, ground beef, peanut butter, peanuts, red curry, s.e. asian, summer harvest, summer squash, Thai, zucchini

Cucumber Baby Spinach Salad with Coconut and Peanuts: Review of A Modern Way to Eat

August 16, 2015 By Laura 8 Comments

Cucumber Baby Spinach Salad with Coconut and Peanuts: This unusual, healthy salad is surpirizingly delicious--refreshing, crunchy and rich with nutrients!

Cucumber Baby Spinach Salad with Coconut and Peanuts is a healthy, crunchy, delicious bowl of textures that can be served as a side salad or even as a light lunch, thanks to the nuts and coconut flakes. I received a copy of A Modern Way to Eat from Blogging for Books in exchange for an honest… 

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Filed Under: Coconut (flaked), coconut milk, cookbooks, cucumbers, peanuts, reviews, Salad Dressing, salads, spinach, Spiralized, vegetarian Tagged With: cilantro, coconut, coconut flakes, coconut milk, cookbooks, cucumber, nuts, peanuts, salad, spinach, spiralizer, vegetarian

Mango Chaat Two Ways–Green and Ripe

May 31, 2014 By Laura 6 Comments

Mango Chaat with Pumpkin Seeds: a crunchy, crispy, sweet and sour indian snack salad

Mango chaat is delicious snack food, whether you make it with ripe mango or green mango. I have included recipes for both down below. Affiliate links have been used in this post to link to items I am discussing. I’ve owed you guys two more chaat recipes from that party, and I decided to combine them… 

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Filed Under: cashews, chaat, fruit, Indian recipes, lime, mango, peanuts, salads, tomatoes, vegetarian, whole grains Tagged With: cashews, chaat, chaat masala, green mango, Indian, lime, mango, nuts, peanuts, pepitas, pumpkin seeds, salads, snacks, street food

Chocolate Drizzled Peanut Bars

February 13, 2014 By Laura 14 Comments

Peanut Energy Bars Drizzled with Chocolate

Is it too embarrassing that I am really proud of my drizzles? Every day I look at gazillions of gorgeous images on food blogs with perfectly swirled frosting, drizzles, you name it. And so I realize that pride in my drizzles is a little silly. But really, the ineptitude of my hands cannot be overstated…. 

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Filed Under: bar cookies, breakfast, chocolate, oats, peanut butter, peanuts Tagged With: #theleftoversclub, bars cookies, breakfast, chocolate, energy bars, nuts, oatmeal, oats, peanut butter, peanuts, semisweet chocolate, snacks

Parsi Gosht Ni Curry (Parsi Beef Curry)

December 30, 2013 By Laura 1 Comment

Parsi Gosht Ni Curry (Parsi Beef Curry) is a hearty, warming stew perfect for winter and perfect for holiday meals with its rich, peanut-thickened sauce, indulgent potatoes (because it is served on rice) and focus on beef. Amazon affiliate links were used in this post but only to link to items I would be discussing… 

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Filed Under: beef, beef chuck, curry, Indian recipes, peanuts, potatoes Tagged With: beef, beef chuck, chutney, curry, Holidays, Indian, lamb substitute, nut thickened, nuts, Parsi, peanut thickened, peanuts, potatoes, stew meat

Snickers and Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies

May 16, 2013 By Laura 9 Comments

Snickers and Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies

Some days are blue skied, breezy and warm. Beautiful and happy. And some days deserve Snickers cookies.

Filed Under: candy, caramel, chocolate, chocolate chip cookies, cookies, peanuts, whole grains Tagged With: candy, caramel, chocolate, chocolate chips, cookies, milk chocolate, peanuts, Snickers

Kung Pao Chicken from The Chinese Takeout Cookbook

February 20, 2013 By Laura 3 Comments

seasoning cast iron wok with salt

I always enjoy my blog, but sometimes I especially love my blog. This is one of those times. A few weeks ago I was contacted by Diana of appetite for china, asking me if I would be interested in blogging about a dish from her new cookbook, The Chinese Takeout Cookbook: Quick and Easy Dishes… 

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Filed Under: blog events, chicken, Chinese, peanuts, stir fry Tagged With: chicken, Chinese, Chinese American, Kung Pao, peanuts, sichuan, sichuan peppercorns, stir fry, Szechuan

Penang Pickled Veggies

January 9, 2011 By Laura 4 Comments

Penang Pickled Vegetables: Healthy and easy vegetable side to any SE Asian dish!

Congrats to Carol from Wires n Pliers for winning the Red Gold tomato media kit giveaway. She was randomly chosen (using numbers) by Sammy. I have a dilemma when I cook SE Asian celebration food. By celebration food I mean rich, meat-heavy dishes, and I call them celebration food because while they might your or… 

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Filed Under: carrots, cucumbers, peanuts, vegetarian Tagged With: carrots, cucumber, Malaysian, peanuts, pickle, vegetarian

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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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