So, this is basically amazing. If you’re bored of your typical vegetable side dishes, this is a really delicious dish to shake things up. You definitely won’t have any leftovers, and if you find yourself standing above the dish at 10 p.m., picking at the crisp edges stuck to the pan, your fingers dripping in …

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Note to self: Cooking with butter is WAY better than cooking without butter. This is probably the best thing I have ever made. And this is one of the most delicious vegetarian dishes I have ever eaten. Anywhere. Make this THIS week. Or NOW. And it’s remarkably easy to put together for how good it …

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I know you probably thought that I was over you. That I had…given up. That suddenly we just…lost it. But, it’s not you, it’s me, really. Well, it’s not me, really, it’s my computer, and it’s my winter vacation. Fortunately for all of us, it’s also all the left-over/loser ingredients in my fridge before embarking …

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I’ve been waiting till I thought you could think about food again. I hope you all had delicious Thanksgivings, ate over 3000 calories, and were shocked when you woke up hungry. This was one of the appetizers that I brought to our Thanksgiving dinner, and although not so much pull-apart ish as the first loaf …

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 Shhhh! I have a secret. Come close. A little closer… I think I figured out how to make Cafe Bezalel’s EXTRAORDINARY jam. Now, if you’ve never had it and you’re wondering what it is, and why I’m calling something with cherry tomatoes and star anise “extraordinary,” you are probably in good company. I can actually assure …

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I don’t know that Adam thought about the repercussions of making such a delicious tomato sauce when he did a couple of weeks ago. Had he, I’m nearly certain he would have kept his talents under cover because we’ve had it four time since! That night, brainstorming dinner ideas, he very casually mentioned, “You know, I could …

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Leah Goldberg wrote: Perhaps only migrating birds know/ Suspended between earth and sky/The heartache of two homelands. After posting last week, I began worrying that I have been straying from my Jerusalem-inspired cooking and settling with recipes that are simply easy to make. This is probably because Trader Joe’s is at my beck and call, the onions …

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Shame on me. I’ve been a little tardy with my posting this week. As an apology, I’m posting two recipes that I’m calling “cheaters,” because you can put them together in NO time and together they almost amount to the time of making one meal. Chocolate bark is, like, the easiest thing ever. You can’t …

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I know what you’re thinking: Um, Lauren, this post is about a month overdue. It’s not warm where I live anymore. Well, allow me gloat for just a moment. Because the weather is pri-taaay, pri-taaaay nice in San Francisco these days. Now, whether or not you can get the wording right the first time, we have …

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Aunt Sarah: This posts’s for you. Over the weekend my aunt texted me to say that a local bakery had a killer pizza that day. As soon as I read the words “roasted fennel” and “balsamic vinegar” my tongue got all hot, my mouth suddenly  felt parched and my peanut butter & jelly sandwich that …

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