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(Not Quite) Ridiculously Easy: Chicken with Cauliflower & Cilantro

I recently learned that it’s generally accepted among food writers, bloggers, and chefs that if you change at least three ingredients in a recipe you can call it your own and use it or write about it without crediting the source. Since I rarely, if ever, follow a recipe to the letter, I guess that makes me

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Happy National Pie Day!

In honor of National Pie Day today, here is a guest post from my sister, Heather. (I don’t bake much, and I love guest posts almost as much as I love pie.) She was in charge of pies this year for Thanksgiving, and let’s just say she really hit it out of the park. Her Apple Butter

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Operation Rice Bowl

For the next 40 days, I am a vegetarian. This — giving up meat for Lent — has become a tradition of mine. It started a couple years ago when my family got involved in Operation Rice Bowl through my kids’ school. Operation Rice Bowl is a program that helps people connect with people in need around the world by inviting participants to “… fast in solidarity with those who

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Eat Apples, Not Cows: Mark Bittman at the T.C.

One of the things I’ve always tried to share with this blog is my belief that if we make food a priority — i.e. adopt the mindset that delicious, healthy meals are not a luxury — it would do us all a whole lot of good. I think just getting people out of the drive-thru and into the kitchen is a solid first step toward curing the ills caused

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