[Photograph: Robin Bellinger] Shopping List 2 cups dried chickpeas: $1.50 2 onions: $0.50 2 stalks celery: $0.20 1 loose carrot: $0.25 2 lemons: $1.50 Cilantro (pro-rated): $0.50 Baguette: $1.50 Bunch carrots: $2.19 Pantry items: Olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper,...
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[Photograph: Nick Kindelsperger] The ingredient list for this recipe from Saveur is long, and the directions come dangerously close to the one-hour mark. But cut me a little slack. Like so many other Indian recipes, six of the ingredients...
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"Too often, grain and bean salads are over-dressed." [Kristen Swensson] Mayo-Less Salad Series Avocado Chicken Salad » Lemon Basil Pasta Salad » Black-Eyed Pea “Caviar » As the Summer of Death and Bizarre Weather comes to a close, so does...
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If my childhood self could see me now, he'd shake his head ruefully and wonder what happened to my taste buds (then he'd return to a bowl of Stouffer's macaroni and cheese and savor all the brown bits along...
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Editor's note: Philadelphia food writers Joy Manning and Tara Mataraza Desmond drop by each week with Meat Lite, which celebrates meat in moderation. Meat Lite was inspired by their book, Almost Meatless. ©iStockphoto.com/JLGutierrez Despite my garden idiocy, I have a...
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I'm not too crazy about room-temperature bean salads; I like my beans best when they're hot and refried. But I'm always tempted by legume recipes for their cheapness and healthiness, and it's the season for salads. I've also yet...
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As the summer swelter begins to arrive, I'm sometimes as adverse to cooking dinner as I am to wearing wool socks. There are just some days when actually contributing to the amount of heat in the house seems like...
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It was one of those times when my wife and I looked around in our kitchen and realized we didn't have much to eat beyond some canned goods—tuna and chickpeas to be exact. Faced with these circumstances we often...
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This recipe appealed to me initially because I had some cooked chickpeas in the fridge looking for a home, and I had made enough batches of hummus—increasingly garlicky—to drive any and all friends away with a huff of my...
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Kristen Swensson of Cheap, Healthy, Good swings by these parts to share healthy and delicious recipes with us. While Ina Garten is far and away my favorite Food Network host (oh, to have her barn), Giada De Laurentiis is growing...
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