Julie | February 25, 2012

A Samoa-like coconut-almond macaroon torte with luscious dark chocolate ganache: a positive miracle of grain-free, dairy-free baking, as far as I am concerned!

Category: Baking, Casein-free, Dessert, Dinner, Gluten-free, Grain-free, Meat, Nuts, Grains & Legumes, Pastas, Specialty Diets | No Comments »
Tags: almond, bake, beef, cake, casein-free, coconut, coconut milk, fresh pasta, ganache, gluten-free, grain-free, mushroom

Julie | July 21, 2011

Playing blog catch-up with some light meals based on local produce from our home garden and farmers’ market.

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Tags: bake, cucumber, farmer's market, fresh pasta, gardening, goat cheese, pea, peach, preserved lemon, quinoa, salad dressing, salmon, shrimp, snow pea, squash blossom, zucchini

Julie | February 5, 2011

As a little inside joke, I couldn’t resist giving my husband a plate of lobster ravioli for his birthday dinner this year.

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Tags: beurre blanc, fresh pasta, lobster, ravioli, sherry, tomato

Julie | January 26, 2011

An incredibly labor-intensive dish, fresh pasta (my own egg-free version with garbanzo beans!) is filled jelly-roll style with ricotta, kale and ham, boiled like a sausage, and then sliced and baked with a rich tomato cream sauce. So worth the effort!

Category: Dairy, Dinner, Meat, Nuts, Grains & Legumes, Pastas, World Cuisines | 4 Comments »
Tags: bake, bechamel, dried beans, flax, fresh pasta, garbanzo beans, Grana Padano, ham, Italian, kale, ricotta, tomato

Julie | November 6, 2010

I have been a little overwhelmed by the number of pumpkin recipes that swamped the food blogosphere in the month of October. The ways people have been sneaking chunks and dollops of pumpkin into practically everything, sweet and savory, is incredible. Although I did pay homage with a few items, they were all sweet—pie, doughnuts, [...]

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Tags: bake, cheese, dried beans, fresh pasta, Grana Padano, greens, Gruyere, lasagna, masa, pear, pumpkin, roast, salad, squash, vegetarian, vinaigrette

Julie | October 26, 2010

Homemade sweet potato fettuccine makes a striking color contrast with Brussels sprouts, white beans and shavings of cheese—not to mention a good excuse to play with my new toy, a food dehydrator!

Category: Dinner, Nuts, Grains & Legumes, Pastas, Veggies and Salads | 10 Comments »
Tags: Brussels sprout, dehydrate, dried beans, dried pasta, fresh pasta, hazelnut, yam

Julie | August 13, 2010

An easy weeknight meal of cold noodle salad with peanut sauce and leftover chicken turns into a hand-pulled noodle-making production—how does this always happen to me?

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Tags: carrot, chicken, Chinese, fresh pasta, leftovers, pea, peanut butter

Julie | June 26, 2010

Homemade fettuccine alfredo with a sneaky twist: strands of fennel woven into the noodles for a dish that even the fennel-averse could appreciate.

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Tags: cream, fennel, fresh pasta

Julie | April 26, 2010

An in-depth guide to a basic roasted chicken, complete with my sure-fire gravy, crockpot chicken stock made from the carcass, and chicken soup with homemade tortellini.

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Tags: broccoli, chicken, crockpot, filled pasta, fresh pasta, gold star, leftovers, mustard, Parmesan, ricotta, roast, stock, white wine

Julie | October 3, 2009

A delicious stewy Italian soup made from homemade pasta and the elusive fresh shelling beans, in this case purple-tinged rattlesnake beans.

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Tags: farmer's market, fresh pasta, Italian, pork, shelling beans, tomato