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Feeling the pressure

I´m a gadget-driven cook. It´s all very well to extoll the virtues of unplugged cooking, and wax lyrical about pesto lovingly made in a pestle and mortar, but for day to day food-on-the-table purposes, I´d be lost without a Thermomix, a rice cooker, a blender and a radio.  I thought a slow cooker might be a good thing, since my favourite stews are off the radar. The idea of leaving an oven on for hours in the vicinity of a danger-seeking toddler makes me pale. Plus, with two children in the world I´m beginning to feel guilty about our fuel consumption. But slow cookers are hard to come by in Spain, and I have had a pressure cooker sitting in a cupboard since I got married almost six years ago, so yesterday I had my pressure baptism. Chickpeas in minutes convinced me in seconds, and I´ve been playing with it ever since. My first solo flight was based on this rag ù . I did´t lock the pressure valve properly, and scorched the bottom, but all the same, I had a really tasty chunky sauce that´s made a great filling for empanada . So far, so good. The chicken stock is what …

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Shoes. Oh My Gawd. Shoes.

Last night (as previously mentioned here on SuperVegan ) was the opening party for the Melissa’s Shoes Pop-Up shop inside of the Lower East Side’s Kaight store. Naked feet, open shoe boxes and smiling gals trying on super cute shoes were the scene last night. The vegan snacks amounted to little more than a few vegan thumbprint cookies in a bag, but there was vodka for the partakers and people seemed to be having a good time. (Seriously though, don’t say you’re providing vegan snacks and show up with a few cookies, because a hungry vegan might cut a b*tch) Full Disclosure: I have dude feet. So, that means I can’t partake in the cute shoes above, but, I love to browse like I do and I’m all smiles at the thought of happy girls wearing cute shoes. So, there! Pictures by Dodai Stewart [ Comments (0) | Add Your Comment ]

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El Dorado Winery Association Tasting: March 20, San Francisco

One of the trends in the wine industry I’m happiest about involves the increasing initiative that wine regions are taking in making themselves visible to the public. Such activities by individual AVAs, or American Viticultural Areas, produce two important results: increased awareness of the individual region, and increased awareness of the difference between regions for consumers. I’m in full support. Public tasting events are one of the chief ways such wine regions are producing this visibility. These events are not only a lot of fun to go to, they are a wonderful education. While visiting the region is the best way to understand the wines, not everyone has the time, the energy, or the means to visit many of California’s wine regions. Even those who do can’t visit more than five or six wineries in a day’s tasting. But at these large tastings, the curious consumer can taste the efforts of twenty, fifty, or a hundred different wineries, and very quickly get a read on a specific region. Which brings me to the little tasting going on in about a week at Postrio Restaurant here in San Francisco. Twenty-four wineries from El …

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Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: Temporarily Vegan

Roasted Black Sesame Tahini. [ Photograph: pinjing ] Last week we asked all of you to forgo animal products for our Temporarily Vegan Weekend Cook and Tell challenge. Cooking without dairy and meat proved to not only be a challenge but also a jumping-off point for a heated discussion on the topic of what truly qualifies as vegan. Here’s a look at some of our tastiest responses. Since receiving a food processor for Christmas pinjing has been whipping up all sorts of nut butters, a great source of animal-free protein. This slightly sweet Roasted Black Sesame Tahini is wonderful as a spread or as a dressing for noodles. Using spring as an inspiration newRDcook chopped up a slaw of kohlrabi, apple, and rutabaga . erunuevo made a quick vegan stir-fry of corn, chickpeas, zucchini, and peppers seasoned with homemade recaito , a Puerto Rican cooking base with lots of cilantro and culantro. Borlotti Bean Mole with Roasted Winter Squash. [ Photograph: DessertByCandy ] DessertByCandy ’s Borlotti Bean Mole with Roasted Winter Squash was just one ingredient short of being vegan. This wonderfully warming winter stew missed the mark do to the milk solids present in the chocolate used for the mole. Peanut butter on sourdough was dbcurrie ’s contribution to this…

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I Need Your Help (Updated)

*Note from Pioneer Woman: Because of information learned this morning, this post has been amended.* I have this book of old children’s portraits. Don’t ask me why I have it. I just have it. I have other things you don’t know about, too. I’ll reveal them gradually over time.

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Cakespy’s 8 Favorite Savory Meals in Paris

[ Original artwork and photographs: Jessie Oleson , unless otherwise noted] On a recent trip to Paris, my travel goal was simple: I wanted to try at least one pâtisserie in each of the 20 arrondissements. Did I attain my goal? Oh, you bet I did (and the findings will be reported here soon). But in order to stave off those nasty jitters that tend to accompany such sweet excess, and because it would be a crime to not explore the savory offerings in the City of Lights, here’s just a sampling of non-sweet eats enjoyed on the trip: Croque Madame/Monsieur La Comète: Our first stop off of the metro? No, not some museum or the Eiffel Tower—it was a Parisian cafe, of course! And our inaugural meal? Cafe crème and croque monsieurs (or is it messieurs?) all around at La Comète. What you’ll find here is a satisfying, if no-frills, version of the classic: a combination of sandwich bread heaped with salty ham and blanketed in rich Gruyère. 6, rue des Archives, 75004, 4th Arrondissement, Paris, France ( map ) 01 42 72 10 27 Café du Drapeau: Anything a Croque Monsieur can do, a Croque Madame can do better. And at Café…

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Why I Homeschool, and What My Approach Is

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Pages and Post-Its

See all these pages? I’ve been pouring over them this weekend trying to meet a deadline for a project I’ve been working on for more than a year now. It’s a book. Yeah, a book. Crazy, right?! Well, it’s written, designed and now it’s in the final stages of edits before it goes to press. Man, that’s weird to me. I’m soooo not someone who ever thought they would have a book. And, definitely not a book you could walk into a bookstore and find. I must be dreaming. Somebody pinch me. Do you want to see some of it? Sorry… I can’t show you the inside just yet. That would spoil all the fun. I wish I could though. Really, I do. For instance, I’d love to tell you what I did with these. I think you’d smile. But, I can’t I can tell you this, though… The book has everything to do with these… At the end of 2008, I went cake pop crazy for a few weeks and made a gazillion pops in different designs. Many of them you haven’t seen yet. I decided back then not to show them all …

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Heath Bar Chocolate & Toffee Sugar Cookies Recipe

There is nothing more fun than making a big mess in the kitchen and having a batch of cookies to show for it. If you are someone who likes to keep your kitchen meticulously neat while orchestrating your baking masterpieces, then do not invite children into your kitchen. Or me, for that matter. By the time that my eldest son and I were done baking, there was flour in our hair, butter on the

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Carrot Almond Spice Protein Muffins. Plus my Tofu Trick.

I’ve always been a carrot cake loving girl, and these hearty sweet Carrot Almond Spice Protein Muffins remind me a bit of carrot cake – minus the decadent cream cheese frosting. These muffins are packed with little nubbins and textures of flavor: crushed almonds, grated carrots, sweet raisins, whole grain oats and orange peel . And warming spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cayenne – a pinch of sugar ‘n oats on top. Protein Muffins. These muffins are packed with protein from a whole block of silken tofu, almonds, soy milk and whole grains. I’ll show you my way to make any tofu muffins as light and fluffy as air. These muffins freeze like a dream – just unthaw one overnight and your grab-n-go breakfast snack is done. Get my recipe… It Beets Me! I had a few golden beets leftover from the weekend, so I decided to do half grated carrots and half grated raw golden beets . You can do all carrots, all beets, or a blend like me. Up to you. You can use red beets if you want, but obviously that will drastically change the color of your muffins. Protein Muffins. Egg-Free…

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