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Swineherd Pie

Swineherd’s Pie

Day four of the great Atlanta snow in. The fridge scavenger hunt continues… Objective: quick dinner after a long day of work Found: a frozen clump of sweet Italian sausage, shallots, five red potatoes, a few squashes, shredded cheddar I can’t call the concoction below a Shepherd’s Pie, because according to Wikipedia, it usually involves […]

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Serendipitous Chicken Pot Pie

We are snowed in. Yes, you are not mistaken, we, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, have been snowed in for three days now. Businesses are closed, schools are closed; parents are going crazy from sudden onslaught of parental duties; kids are going crazy because they have run out of things to do. Suddenly, six inches […]

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Tarka Squash & Pumpkin Soup

My husband signed me up for a series of yoga classes called “Wellness for the Holidays”. The classes are featuring some yoga basics and complementing foods, appropriate for the current weather and designed to offset the gastronomical damages of the “Bermuda Triangle of a food junkie” – Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. This soup was featured […]

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Stranger in a Strange Land

I was visiting with my sister in NYC back in August, and of course she took me to the China-Town. I took a bunch of photos of raw food, mostly because of their phenomenal textures. The pictures, though taken with a phone camera, turned out pretty decently, so I am sharing here. Make no mistake, […]

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