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Quinoa and Kale with Crispy Tofu
True confession time: I really don’t think I could ever be a vegan. I rely so much on eggs and cheese as protein sources, and, honestly, I just like cheese way too much to give it up. I’m always a tad...
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Spiced Red Lentil Soup with Kale
Soup weather is officially here! Now I can post about the lentil soup we enjoyed the other night without being a weirdo. Lentil soup is one of my favorite cold weather foods, and since I am fighting...
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Thanksgiving Dress Rehearsal: Part 1
Thanksgiving is kind of the Super Bowl of the foodie world. I’m only hosting a small dinner this year (the three of us plus my dad and his wife), but that certainly will not stop me from planning a...
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Kale and White Bean Soup with Mozzarella Toasts
I have been a mess as far as meal planning goes this week. When nap time rolled around the other day, I hadn’t a clue what I was going to cook for dinner. That’s an issue because, for clingy toddler...
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Vegetable Gratin-Soufflé
I love “kitchen sink” recipes — you know, the kind of recipe that you can just throw whatever veggies you have in the fridge into. A stir fry is classic, but when you have lots of root vegetables, as I...
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Orecchiette with Kale and Breadcrumbs
This pasta is so sublime, it needs a better name. Sure, it is orecchiette with kale and breadcrumbs… but that doesn’t tell you how creamy, garlicky and delicately spiced it is, and it doesn’t evoke a...
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Creamy Polenta with Kale, Delicata Squash and Poached Eggs
One of my favorite meal formulas this winter is to throw some greens and maybe another veggie on top of polenta, top it with an egg of some sort, and call it a day. The possibilities are endless, and...
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Quinoa-Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Kale
I keep seeing quinoa-stuffed sweet potato recipes floating around, and I’ve been meaning to try them out for a while. My version stuffs the sweet potatoes with a kale and quinoa mixture — how can you...
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Easy Roasted Kale
Since we’ve had a long, (relatively) cool spring, my kale plants are still flourishing. I’m staving off bolting for as long as I can, but I can see that it’ll happen soon… so I’m enjoying lots and lots...
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Caramelized Tofu with Ramen Noodles and Kale
Tofu has been much maligned recently (and not too recently), but I think it gets a bad wrap. For one thing, if you know how to cook it properly, it’s delicious. For another, as long as you’re not...
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Crispy Baked Kale with Gruyère
Thanks to the delightful Ruby, I have discovered a great new way to use kale. This dish is definitely more than the sum of its parts — the onions, the kale, the gruyère, and the croutons combine to...
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Kale and mizuna salad with delicata squash
I made a fantastic salad for dinner the other night. No, no, stay with me here. I am not normally one of those “salad for dinner” kinds of people. I think dinner needs to be a little more substantial...
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Kale and garbanzo tacos
One of my favorite weeknight meals back in my omnivore days was kale and garbanzo tacos, made using bacon. I had to modify the recipe a bit to make it vegetarian, and, more importantly, to make it as...
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Garlicky mushrooms and kale
Not too long ago, I stumbled on a list of great kale recipes. I’ve been cooking my way through them, since we’ve been getting a lot of kale through our CSA,* but I have to say, this is my favorite one...
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Farro salad with roasted kale and beets
I have a few good uses for beets, but it’s easy to get bored of them when they show up every single week in the CSA box. Imagine my delight when I ran across this recipe for farro salad with roasted...
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Warm lentil and kale salad with Dijon vinaigrette
Quick dinners, or at the least, make-ahead dinners, are a must on Monday nights for our family. I sneak out to go to core class, and we eat shortly after I get home. It’s quite a workout, so I am...
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Kale salad with ricotta salata, pine nuts, and quinoa
With the end of kale season nearing, and temperatures rising, I decided to try a kale salad with the big bunch of curly kale that showed up in our CSA box this week. There are legions of kale salad...
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Quinoa and Kale with Crispy Tofu
True confession time: I really don’t think I could ever be a vegan. I rely so much on eggs and cheese as protein sources, and, honestly, I just like cheese way too much to give it up. I’m always a tad...
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Spiced Red Lentil Soup with Kale
Soup weather is officially here! Now I can post about the lentil soup we enjoyed the other night without being a weirdo. Lentil soup is one of my favorite cold weather foods, and since I am fighting...
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Thanksgiving Dress Rehearsal: Part 1
Thanksgiving is kind of the Super Bowl of the foodie world. I’m only hosting a small dinner this year (the three of us plus my dad and his wife), but that certainly will not stop me from planning a...
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