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Beet and Orange Soup
Beet and Orange Soup, garnished with Sour Cream and Orange Peel I love bold colors and I am not afraid to use them! We had our rooms painted deep orange, buttercup yellow, brick red and silver...
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Jalapeño-Corn Chowder
Jalapeño-Corn Chowder I am a girl and I like ruffles, unexpected surprises and charming things. The things that touch my girly soul are: Polka dots and hair clips Sky reflection in the puddle of water...
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Emeril’s Vegetarian Chili
Vegetarian Chili When I am stressed, I find slicing, dicing, and cutting to be quite therapeutic. A few Sundays ago, after a full weekend of children and adult activities, I was ready for a date with...
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Happy Cinco De Mayo
Happy Cinco de Mayo Sometimes I feel that I must have been Mexican in a previous life (but then again, I also say the same thing about other ethnicities, whenever I can’t get enough of their food). I...
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Soup Kharcho
Soup Kharcho (minus the herbs) I have been having some major childhood-food cravings over the last few weeks. I don’t know exactly what triggered my culinary nostalgia. Could it be this unusually...
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Creamy Poblano Chile Soup With Corn and Chanterelle Mushrooms
Creamy Poblano Chile Soup With Corn and Chanterelle Mushrooms Cucee loved to cook, Cucee lived to cook. Cooking was a creative outlet, a form of meditation and self expression. In a community, the...
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Russian gazpacho Okroshka (окрошка)
Odessa, Ukraine. My husband and I are dressed to go out. Dinner, then a nightclub at a beach. A coral dress and blue heels for me. Hair down. A gray v-neck and faded jeans for the hubby. Leather...
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Red Pepper Soup
Work life balance no more. I had been the only designer at a small internet startup for years… until the Big Bang explosion of success had happened and the company began expanding like a mushroom...
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Gypsy soup
I have been living without a range for a whole month! My old range had been sending me death signals for over a year but I kept deliberately ignoring them, just like I ignore any other sign of...
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Algerian Tomato Soup
I was blasting down a steep windy trail over the rock gardens and roots – rocks ricocheting off of my shiny, barely used Target “tricycle.” I was holding on for dear life, in fact so tight that my...
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Tarragon Lemon Summer Squash Soup
Everyone has at least ONE vegetable they CANNOT stand. For whichever reason that may be… For some, it’s that “healthy” vegetable they were force-fed as a child; for others, it is the one they’ve...
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Soondubu Stew
When a health-conscious girl from Moldova makes Korean food in the States, it looks something like this: A BIG MESS. In other words, a Soondubu Stew. Soondubu, proper pronunciation not required, means...
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Vegetarian Tortilla Soup – My Way
In our house, I am defiantly the obsessive health advocate. The person who keeps her kids from spending their lives in front of a computer, with a bowl of something carby, greasy or processed. But the...
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