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We are so spoiled to live in NYC, where even the cheaper local small grocery store has a really decent selection of ethnic ingredients and local/organic ones!

one of our go-to simple meals is lemon-caper chicken cutlets (basically a simplified chicken piccata). I particularly like it because it's usually my fiance who actually cooks it!

we cook vegetarian food about 4 nights/week, so this question is kind of like, "tell us your favorite food!" That being said, I think it's when cooking Indian that I most feel like I'm making a complete meal that's not striving to be meatless, it just happens to be meatless and also delicious and hearty.

the way my mother cooked in our Irish-German-Indian, All-American household - never the same cuisine twice in a week and always delicious!

Going to Central Market in Dallas with my girlfriends as a teenager and taking tons of pictures with adorable miniature fruits and vegetables!

I love love love the grilled cheeses at Murray's here in NYC. I don't think they get talked about nearly enough!

my vegetable patch involves staring wistfully at the fire escape outside of my nyc apartment and imagining filling it with growing things, as well as pipe dreams of hanging plants from my kitchen ceiling.

my partner hates olives and i love them, so i use my dining solo nights to indulge in recipes where olives are prominently featured.

how about pizza? Not only are there tons of regional variations, it's malleable enough to be adapted to reflect a number of different cuisines.

basmati rice (with peas and saffron if i'm feeling fancy) and masoor dal (sometimes with a bit of lemon) is the go-to pantry meal in my house.

quinoa, tofu, asparagus :D

Pho pho pho!