Category Archives: cooking for one or two

Beet greens

I have a confession: I hate beets.  I can’t eat more than a few bites of them.  I’ve even had nice, well-seasoned beets… but after a couple bites, the beet flavor is overwhelming, and I can’t go on. I’ve heard for some time that beet greens (literally, the green, leafy part of the beet plant) [...]

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Planning for a Vegetarian Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving’s around the corner, and you can’t step outside without bloggers and food writers sharing their Thanksgiving recipes with you.  (And yet, everyone still seems to agonize about what to make – and tradition usually still wins out over fancy new recipes.  Curious, that.) We decided not to travel this year – instead, we’re going [...]

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Easy elegant spinach pasta

Pasta is delightfully flexible and tasty – it’s easy to prepare an elegant dish in just a few minutes, and it goes with almost anything.  This week the Washington Post had a nice article reminding us all about why we love pasta so much, and all the myriad things you can do with it.  I’ve [...]

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Operation Rhubarb-All-For-Me

I bought a big bundle of rhubarb at the farmer’s market last weekend; it was a big find, because I don’t think it grows well in this area.  In my mind, the perfect rhubarb experience involves going out into the back yard (my parents have a big, beautiful rhubarb plant that’s been there since I [...]

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