Sick, stuffy and sluggish – that pretty much describe me right now. I think I have the flu. Ugh. But .. but!! The benefit of being sick is that I get to drink lots and lots of soup. It’s one of my favorite stuff to make and eat (even when I’m not sick). And it’s
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Sometimes I really can’t think of what to cook. And honestly I don’t even want to think about what to cook. To solve this dilemma I do this weird thing of picking out a cookbook and opening it randomly to a page. Often this doesn’t work so well because I end up with a recipe
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This has been a soup and salad kind of week for my family! First, we’re still coming to terms with making our own meals everyday! If that wasn’t enough, Neel, my 2 year old, got a bad cold over the weekend and then fell on his face and cut his lips pretty bad. This meant
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Spring is a weird season.. especially out where I live. Today I’m sitting on my balcony in the blazing sun writing up this blog post. I’m one of those people that gets tanned easily and burned very very infrequently. I believe it was all of two times in my entire life. Yes – you non
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It was the end of March when I started experimenting with Adzuki bean. Yes, for those of you in the know, March’s SOS Challenge was Adzuki beans. And yes, I do realize it is now the end of April! So how did I fall one month behind? Quite simple – once I made it with
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So this recipe is glutenfree and has buckwheat in it. What?!?!? Wheat?? Well… even though the name itself has “wheat” in it, this grain (and wait for another surprise…drum roll please… is not a grain!) is gluten-free. You can find additional information about this wonder seed here. So my mom has always been the nutritionist
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