Category Archives: Baking / Cooking

Can’t Hold a Candle to This Cookbook

Is the suspense getting to you, too? Well your patience will be rewarded, because we have a winner! I wish I could give everyone a copy of the beautiful and inspiring Candle 79 Cookbook, but barring some crazy lottery miracle, I’ll have to settle for sharing a small taste. Do yourself a favor and click [...] Continue reading

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at BitterSweet 2012-02-03

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Winter Tomatoes

Considering how much I already enjoy rambling on about the weather, past, present, and future, I can only imagine what a hoot I’ll be by the time I’m 80 and mostly senile. Every conversation will begin and end with the forecast, as reliably timed as the news stations themselves. Who knows, maybe I just inadvertently [...] Continue reading

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at BitterSweet 2012-01-30

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Pop Culture

Hamentaschen are unarguably the dessert du jour for Purim, but that doesn’t mean that there’s no room for creative interpretation. Iron out the corners, add a lollipop stick handle for grab-and-go fun, and you’d get these stunningly simple pie pops.  Between the tender crust and fruity center, what are they but miniature, triangular pies, after [...] Continue reading

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at BitterSweet 2012-01-28

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Fine Dining For All

Vegan cuisine has come a long way in just the past decade. Beginning as humble hippie fare, there are now numerous restaurants elevating the meatless and milkless to the level of fine dining. Candle 79, self-proclaimed “vegan oasis” in New York City, is one of the first restaurants that come to mind in this category, [...] Continue reading

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at BitterSweet 2012-01-25

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Who’s Your Baba?

Winter survival depends on preparedness; Plenty of moisturizer for dry skin, an ample supply of dry beans and other long-lasting pantry staples, and as many types of citrus as you can cram in the fruit bin. When the snow is falling in thick white sheets with no end in sight, the bright, cheerful flavors of [...] Continue reading

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at BitterSweet 2012-01-23

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The Kale Conundrum

Kale: The poster child for all things wholesome, healthy, and generally good. Once shunned as merely a frilly garnish for deli cases, no greater redemption story can be found in the produce aisle. Excellent both cooked and raw, agreeable with any flavors thrown at it, kale remains humble even after so much glowing praise has [...] Continue reading

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at BitterSweet 2012-01-20

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Twenty-Three

In the most minimal fashion, much like the twenty-second year preceding it, my twenty third came and went. There was ice skating with my dad, a shared lunch, a black and white movie at home, and cake; no party, and no candles. Not so much a day of celebration as a day of rest, which [...] Continue reading

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at BitterSweet 2012-01-13

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The Winter That Wasn’t

Setting record highs and feeling for all the world like early spring, this is easily the most mild January in recent memory. Though likely the sign of the impending apocalypses, I can’t help but rejoice in this unusual weather pattern. Being cold is simply not a state conducive towards my general well-being, and when the [...] Continue reading

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at BitterSweet 2012-01-09

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Clean Start

Synonymous with new beginnings and self improvement, there could hardly be a better time than the New Year to investigate a book like Clean Start, by Terry Walters. A sequel to the original Clean Food, Clean Start might be more accurately be considered the prequel to the series, as it attempts to break down the [...] Continue reading

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at BitterSweet 2012-01-06

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Sophisticated Solo Snacking

Holiday season firmly behind us, the time of endless parties and merriment may have passed, but even as we enter the frigid month of January, I’m unwilling to fully surrender to that immense shift. Winter hibernation beckons invitingly, yet the inertia of both work and play pulls me forward, with little conscious decision on my [...] Continue reading

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at BitterSweet 2012-01-04

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