empire brewery’s indonesian lettuce wraps
Beef or bison spiced with cardamom and cinnamon, stirred together with creamy coconut milk.
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muffin mondays: kris’s no-bake chocolate chip bran muffins
This week, Kris from Married to Chocolate brings her special chocolatey touch to mornings. Kris also specializes in low maintenance: these muffins are almost no-bake and come together as fast as you’ll eat them. I’m…
kabocha-udon noodle bowl
Udon noodles are thick and chewy Japanese wheat flour noodles often found packaged fresh in the refrigerator section.
muffin mondays: kim’s chocolate oatmeal peanut butter muffins
This week on Muffin Mondays, Kim touches on one of the reasons I love muffins so much. When she calls her creation “a bit healthier than your standard brownie,” she shows how muffins balance health…
grainy waldorf salad
While doing crunches at the gym today, I was interrupted by a tentative voice. “Can I ask you a question?” said a slim woman stretched out beside me on the mat, a second-year student at…
chocolate zucchini cake
Flashback to last fall: A large sum of money for a master’s degree I wasn’t sure would benefit me. The economy crumbling. Journalism and publishing thrust suddenly into uncertain terms. Everyone running scared. Most of…
muffin mondays: emily’s spiced carrot-date muffins with cashews
A medley of medjool dates, cashews, coconut, orange, fresh ginger and cardamom put a funky twist on the carrot-nut muffin.
kale chips
Crisped-up in a hot oven with just some good olive oil and salt, there is no better destiny for the wrinkled kale leaf.
muffin mondays: jessie bea’s vegan apple muffins
Hello, fresh cracked pepper readers! Jen sweetly asked me to write a post for her new series, Muffin Mondays. I’m Jessie Bea from Jessie Bea Eats, and here’s my contribution. Autumn in upstate New York…
buttercup squash soup
Squash is a rather deceiving name for the vegetable to which it refers. With pudgy approachability and even cuteness, the squash family is far from cushy. Take, for example, this buttercup. Looks delightful enough. With…