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spicy southwestern sweet corn

November 13, 2009

Hegui was in the mood for red Bordeaux last night. Too bad I had no idea what to make that would match. We had all the fixin’s for Tex-Mex, so we tried the Bordeaux while I was cooking and sipped tequila at the table. I don’t really “love” corn but I do enjoy spicy food. [...]

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nameless winter squash AKA mogango

November 12, 2009

The other day at the Alemany farmers’ market I found a type of winter squash that was similar to one squash my mom used to cook when I was growing up in Brazil. I decided to buy it to give it a try. This looks a bit like acorn squash but I was not able [...]

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vegetarian kimchi fried rice

October 20, 2009

With all of this kimchi that I made last week, it’s like we’ve been running the kimchi marathon, sort of like the spinach version from the spring. Maybe I should really say the kimchi Olympics to show my Brazilian pride. Yeah Rio de Janeiro 2016! Besides the regular baechu kimchi, we made a wonderful silken [...]

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almost vegetarian Pad Thai without the wok

October 6, 2009

Cooking Thai food without a wok or a high octane burner can be tricky! After we moved from NYC to San Francisco we sort of stopped using our wok for cooking Asian dishes. It had a round bottom and did not sit well first on the coils of our ancient electrical stove in our Eureka [...]

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Bacalhoada: salt cod with chick peas and assorted vegetables

August 31, 2009

Growing up in the hinterlands of Brazil did not help me much with my knowledge of seafood. There used to be a salesman that showed up in the village perhaps two or three times a month driving his dilapidated truck on those dusty roads announcing very loudly over speakerphone that sardines had swum all the [...]

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aubergines en pistouille, froides

August 17, 2009

I did not know what court bouillon was till we had our Julia Child Mastering the Art of French Cooking inspired dinner party last week. The glamorous party was followed by a viewing of the new movie, Julie & Julia, at our local movieplex. What a terrific evening! Though the movie segment almost was a [...]

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pescetarian champagne “chicken”

May 13, 2009

I was inspired to make Champagne Chicken after reading “French Women Don’t Get Fat,” because it sounds so celebratory and scrumptious and low-fat of course! This very Frenchy book has even more yummy recipes and ideas on living French. Some of the weirdcombos crew…. how shall I say this ….had issues with the whole “chicken” [...]

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almost vegetarian Sancocho

May 1, 2009

My significant other went out today with work mates for dinner at Epic Roasthouse. Epic is part of a ‘chain’  of restaurants owned by or partially owned by Pat Kuleto here is San Francisco. Pat Kuleto finances this type of enterprise throughout the Bay Area.  Some of them are especially fancy e.g., Jardinière. I have [...]

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