Category: sauce

Wedge Salad with Homemade Buttermilk Ranch Dressing

02 April 2014

wedge salad with ranch dressing

A few weeks back, my older daughter came to me saying she would like to try salad. Trying not to show my surprise, I told her that I could probably hook her up with some salad seeing as we have one several times a week around our place. My son loves salad and eats them […]

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Baked Pasta Shells in a Spinach and Chickpea Tomato Sauce (with dairy and dairy-free options)

03 December 2010

When the mamas and the mini-chefs walked into our apartment this week, everyone looked a little exhausted.  There was a cannon of coughs and sneezes and even yawns.  It is the time of year when we get a little run down from too much partying, too many obligations (even when they are fun obligations), and […]

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Soba Noodles with a Peanut Sauce and Roasted Butternut Squash

08 October 2010

A couple of years ago, a friend from Zimbabwe mentioned that they love to eat peanut butter and pumpkin there ground together in a sort of mush or puree.  Loving both of those ingredients, I kept the idea of that mixture in my back pocket until this Fall. Peanut butter, while maligned now, was one […]

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Winter Vegetable Tomato Sauce

11 January 2010

Hello, Everyone! Hello, 2010! What a transition it has been, being back in New York City, back to school, back to the freezing, Wintery weather and the many layers of clothing that life here in January requires. Not to mention the unpacking, attempt at reorganization, and, for the kids, getting used to life without the […]

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