cooking
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Bitter
I don’t get upset when my dentist calls to say that I owe an additional $200 because I didn’t tell them my insurance changed. I don’t get (too) upset when I forget to pick up my favorite pair of Nike Free shoes from the check-in line at the airport. I don’t get upset when the…
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Coffee Cake
Not too long ago, I had a request from Neel for a healthy coffee cake. If you’ve ever had a slice of coffee cake you know that such a request is blasphemous. The buttery cake, layered with an even more buttery crumb of walnuts, brown sugar, and cinnamon is difficult to downsize. But before a hasty…
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Sweet potato and zucchini bread
I had a dying zucchini, and a dusty sweet potato lingering around from Thanksgiving. When life gives you lemons…although, these lemons were my doing so not much to complain here. Any who… I baked a cake using my not so prime vegetables and still the resulting cake was moist and sweet. It is soft, crumbly, and screams…
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Ratatouille Pizza anyone!?
Thursday, I skipped gym and rushed home on the 5:00pm train. The plan was to get to the ratatouille before Komal did (ha!) and test my idea of using it as a topping for a pizza. I imagined a thin, crunchy crust loaded with salty capers, sliced garlic, red onions, cheese, and of course, the…
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Couscous: a quick weeknight dinner idea
After my run and metro delays, I was ravenous by the time I got home at 8:40pm. Lack of proper grocery shopping meant I didn’t have anything to just pop in the microwave. Usually cereal or a PBJ sandwich are my fall back for such situations, but tonight I wanted something hot, spicy, tasty, filling,…
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summer baking and why am i doing it?
In spite of the hot DC summer, the AC in our living room/kitchen is seldom on. We usually leave the balcony door open which keeps the air moving, plus Lilah seems to like hanging out by the screen door. It’s an ideal setting for libations, lounging, and TV watching; anything more can possibly send a…
The Antibland Chronicles 