FREE All-Clad contest!

The contest is now ended.
The winner of the free All-Clad will be announced December 11.
Thanks to all the people who entered.
Good, good luck.

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Guess who’s having a contest

We are!
Oh yes!
And guess what you can win?
Does the name All-Clad mean anything?
But I know what you want to know: When will the contest start?

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Finally, a recipe for a lovely, non-alcoholic, refreshing drink

Here’s what I say. I say: To hell with winter. I know summer has long since slipped away. But sometimes, just sometimes, I don’t want it to go.
And when that happens. I make lemonade.But not just any lemonade. Oh no! I make raspberry lemonade.
And not just raspberry lemonade. I also made it with a special [...]

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Jamie’s Food Revolution and a vegetarian Jamie Oliver recipe

Given my recent rant about cookbooks with crappy recipes, you might wonder why I am reviewing another cookbook.
Even more, you might be wondering why I am giving you a recipe from it. A vegetarian recipe. A vegetarian recipe from Jamie Oliver, no less!
Well, you can’t paint all cookbooks bad because of one bad recipe. Besides, [...]

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Vegetarian recipe for roasted garlic and garlic bread

Bread may just be the most perfect food in the world.
And the most perfect bread is garlic bread.
The problem is, I don’t want to use all that butter (yes, it is yummy, but it is also killer fattening). The solution? Roasted garlic. I have a recipe for it. And, good news, it is crazy easy!
The [...]

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Cookbooks are letting me down

I love cookbooks. And I’m so excited about this cookbook.
Sure, a lot of the recipes are meat-based, but a lot are not. And it is loaded, just loaded, with fast and easy weekday meals. So how perfect is that?
But then I made one of the recipes.

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Recipe for a grown-up tea party

Sometimes, just sometimes, I want a little treat.
Now, I’ve been making French yogurt cakes for years. But, then, I thought, wouldn’t they make for sweet little cupcakes?
There were a few trials and errors (my earlier versions tended to be way, way too sweet). But these, I think, are perfect.
They are insanely easy to make (and, [...]

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Should vegetarians eat fake meat?

I review lot of non-vegetarian cookbooks because they tend to be better than vegetarian cookbooks. They tend to use better techniques, more innovative ingredients, and most important of all, deliver better flavor.
But I keep my eye out for vegetarian cookbooks because, let’s face it, there are so many meat-based recipes in non-vegetarian cookbooks I [...]

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Going vegetarian: Now that Vegetarian Awareness Month is over, will she stay a vegetarian?

Last week, we met the lovely Lauren who, with a heart full of kindness and a fridge full of pork, went vegetarian for a month. Today, we are going to find out what will happen to her now that Vegetarian Awareness Month is over.
Will she stay vegetarian? Or will she succumb to the siren call [...]

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