This week has been easier than last, though due to the end-of-semester grading crunch we have both been wishing that wine were allowed on the Whole30. No such luck. Breakfast continues to be my strawberry/almond butter bowl, yesterday with some added coconut, today with some red banana. Lunch is pretty consistently dinner leftovers and/or added […]
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Lamb Stew over Charred Eggplant Puree
This is a riff on Sultan’s Delight, a traditional Turkish dish of braised lamb over a roasted eggplant mash. Like all “traditional” dishes, there are countless variations on the theme, and you have a lot of flexibility in how you season the dish. I eliminated the typical addition of flour to thicken the eggplant, and […]
January Comfort Food: Lemon-Garlic Soup
This has been an unusually dreary Colorado winter, and I am really missing the typical sunny days. This is the first winter here that I have experienced some seasonal affective disorder (it happened every winter when I lived in the U.P.), so I am looking forward to longer days and more sunshine. Today I had […]
Simple Butter Scallops
Butter chicken (also known as chicken makhani) is one of my favorite take-out dishes. It’s a rich, spicy, tomato-cream sauce that is laced with pieces of chicken breast. Most recipes are fairly complex and require a large range of spices. My goal, as an inherently lazy cook, was to make something that was quick to […]
Feast of the Seven Fishes
I am not of Italian heritage, but starting from a young age I have had a longing to do an all-out Feast of the Seven Fishes for Christmas Eve dinner. My family traditionally had our dinner on Christmas Eve, with an extended-family dinner at my grandparent’s house on Christmas day, and around the age of […]
Red Chile Roast Beef
This is actually a recipe for a rotisseried roast of beef, because over the last few weeks I have been in a rotisserie frenzy. I have rotisseried a duck, a pork loin, and even delicata squash rings. All because I received a Wolfgang Puck Pressure Oven for review–and let me tell you, I am in […]
Whole 30 Recipe Round Up
Cashew Vegetable Korma
Dark Chocolate Chestnut Cake
