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Roasted Vegetable Lasagna

Sometimes the thought of a recipe sticks with me for a day or two. Sometimes a week. A month. But this one has been on my mind for a year. And now I have made it twice and have passed the recipe along so that friends could make it as well. They loved it. Of [...]

{TWD} Pumpkin Muffins

Living some place for some time without some things causes change.

Complete and total change. I was excited to make pumpkin muffins this week, partially because the flavor fits perfectly with fall and partly because I have access to cans of real pumpkin. I was looking forward to the incredible flavor that I remember when eating [...]

Worth The Wait?

Sometimes recipes look better on paper than they taste in real life. This week I sure got to experience that!

I make it a habit to cut and clip recipes from magazines that I want to make sometime in the future. When I am about to make a shopping list, I often sift through these recipes [...]

Banana Ball Soup?

“Tienes aji?” was my catchphrase throughout my trip to Ecuador last year. In every restaurant, I asked if they had hot pepper sauce. It is not that I eat everything spicy, but I do eat things with lots of flavor. Some of the Ecuadorian dishes were delicious; for example, the yapingachos, a fried potato and [...]

Double Squash Rice Gratin

2 cups of diced zucchini2 cups of thinly sliced zapallo (or other yellow squash)2 cups of thinly sliced leeks1/4 cup of chicken broth1 tsp of salt1 tsp of black pepper6 garlic cloves, minced1 cup of nonfat plain yogurt1 egg white1 1/2 cups of cooked brown rice1 cup of crumbled queso fresco1/4 cup of shredded parmesean [...]