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No Recipes vol. 5

December 16, 2008
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No Recipes roundups are a way for me to share food that didn’t quite make the cut to get its own post. While most posts here come with recipes, these roundups capture the ethos of this blog in that cooking is more fun when “coloring outside the lines”.
Perhaps it’s the cold weather but I’ve been [...]

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No Recipes vol. 4

December 8, 2008
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It’s been a weird week. Now that I don’t have a job to go to I thought I’d have a lot more time to work on the blog, but job hunting is a lot more time consuming than you’d think. I did manage to get a new template up for the blog after the last [...]

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Cinnamon Harissa Turkey

December 6, 2008
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Last Thanksgiving post! This turkey was part of my West Asian Thanksgiving dinner. I wanted to serve it without gravy, so I gave it a good dose of spice to make up for the lack of sauce.
I know what you’re thinking, and I agree. Gravy is the best part of Thanksgiving, but I just [...]

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Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24: A West Asian Thanksgiving

November 30, 2008
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West Asia, a region comprised of the Near East and Middle East includes countries like Turkey and Syria which were at the center of the spice trade for centuries. It’s no surprise then that West Asian cuisine makes extensive use of spices such as cinnamon, cardamom, and sumac.
For Thanksgiving this year, my family flew out [...]

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Mediterranean Spiced Thanksgiving Dinner

November 2, 2008
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After 30 plus Thanksgivings, I’ve gotten a little bored with the usual “Thanksgiving = turkey + stuffing + mashed potatoes + gravy + cranberry sauce” formula. Still, it’s a meal that I look forward to for 11 months out of the year (I spend December in recovery) and doing away with the traditional items and [...]

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Chipotle turkey chili with pickled jalepenos

March 9, 2008
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It used to be that the word “chili” would conjure up images of brown chunky mush that looked (and smelled) like something you would feed a furry four legged companion. The only thing that would make the chili of my memories remotely edible was to douse it with loads of cheese, sour cream, onions, and [...]

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