Vegetarian Recipes

Holy Macro, by Hilary

May 9, 2012

I had a revelation the other day as I was about to purchase yet another gorgeous vegetarian cookbook.  This particular one was written by a beautiful thin healthy looking French woman about my age.  The sun was shining on the day they shot the cover and she was radiant.  Walking through her country garden in [...]

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The End of an Era, by Lauren

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The plane swirled over the bay as the mist hung close to the headlands.  It landed softly in San Francisco and  for the first time in a year in a half I was “home”.  But I wasn’t home.  SF hasn’t been home for almost two years now.  But because I’ve still had my flat there, [...]

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A springtime cleanse, by Hilary

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I keep hearing the same thing over and over in my head lately, “ordinary people do extraordinary things”.  Mostly the voice pops into my head in the morning while I’m walking to work. Over the last two weeks I’ve really started to think about this quote (as it’s constantly haunting me).  Then it hits me.  [...]

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Mexico, by Hilary

January 21, 2012

It’s been a month since I have posted to our blog.  Many many thanks to Lauren for her weekly posts and for picking up the slack while I was away. I have just returned home from 21 days of travel.  Tim and I have been on a whirl wind tour through the states to visit [...]

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A Very Belgian Xmas Part Deux, by Lauren

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After a massive Thanksgiving with my family in Texas with way too much food, I was not even mentally ready for Christmas.  Usually I don’t have to worry about Christmas dinners since I don’t celebrate the holiday and Christmas consists of a movie and Chinese food.  But the last two years I have been lucky [...]

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A trip home, by Lauren

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Phew, well, it’s been a busy few weeks of eating hasn’t it?  Well it has for me at least.  I just got back from 2 weeks trip home to Texas to visit my family and introduce my Belgian boyfriend to why we say “Everything’s Bigger in Texas”. Since it was his first time to Texas [...]

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Ribollita, by Hilary

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Yesterday I made Ribollita or Tuscan soup, which is made with stale bread, vegetables, a little bit of stock and water.  While I was cooking it, I was thinking about where everything came from.  All my vegetables from my friend Mark which are all organic and grown locally.  The bread came from a nearby artisan [...]

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