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holiday recipes

Making A Gingerbread House (The Daring Baker’s December Challenge)

December 23, 2009

The December 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to you by Anna of Very Small Anna and Y of Lemonpi. They chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ everywhere to bake and assemble a gingerbread house from scratch. They chose recipes from Good Housekeeping and from The Great Scandinavian Baking Book as the challenge recipes.

We were challenged [...]

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Latkes (Potato Pancakes)

December 10, 2009

The Jewish holiday Hannukah (The Festival of Lights) begins tomorrow night. Food-wise for me, that means pretty much one thing. Latkes.
Latkes are pancakes made from grated potatoes and onion. They are fried in oil (to symbolize the one day’s worth of oil that miraculously burned for 8 days so many years ago) to [...]

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Gluten-Free Chocolate Mint Cookies

December 8, 2009

Here’s my first attempt at making a homemade version of my favorite Girl Scout’s cookie: the Thin Mint. While these chocolate mint cookies did not turn out exactly like their inspiration (my chocolate coating was a bit too thick), they were wonderful in their own right, and gluten-free to boot.

Note that the original recipe containing [...]

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Cranberry Glogg

December 3, 2009

While researching cardamom for my post about cardamom roasted vegetables, I learned that cardamom is one of the spices that typically flavors the Scandinavian winter-time drink known as Glögg.

According to Wikipedia, Glögg is the name of mulled (heated and spiced) wine in Sweden and Iceland; it goes by other similar names in Norway, Denmark, Finland [...]

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Roasted Vegetables with Cardamom

December 1, 2009

Thanksgiving has now come and gone. At my home, we enjoyed a great dinner; I hope that you did, too.
I made these Roasted Vegetables with Cardamom as part of our Thanksgiving feast. They were a last minute addition to the table, but turned out to be one of my favorite parts of the meal.

I adapted [...]

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The Village Tea Room’s Pumpkin Cheesecake

November 22, 2009

Do you love pumpkin? Do you love cheesecake? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, you should seriously consider making this pumpkin cheesecake.

I happen to love pumpkin cheesecake. It’s up there with my favorite desserts of all time, and it makes a great Thanksgiving dessert. I have made this pumpkin cheesecake recipe [...]

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Agnes’ Celery Root, Kale and Wild Rice Soup

November 20, 2009

Good thing I love soup; I’ve certainly eaten a lot of it this week!

Today at Healthy Green Kitchen we’ve got another yummy seasonal recipe, straight from the menu of one of my favorite local eateries, The Village TeaRoom, Restaurant and Bake Shop in New Paltz, NY.
If you belong to a CSA of if [...]

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Announcements and a Recipe for Pumpkin Gingerbread Stuffing

November 16, 2009

Before I get to the pumpkin gingerbread stuffing recipe, I have a few announcements…
First, I completely forgot to let you know that the winner of The Gluten Free Almond Flour Cookbook giveaway was Tara of California. I mailed the book out to Tara’s Almond Ave. address (how fitting is that?) yesterday…thanks to everyone who entered, [...]

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Cranberry Pomegranate Compote

November 11, 2009

I’m always a bit sad that it seems to take so much sugar to make cranberry sauce taste good, so I came up with this delicious mostly fruit-sweetened version. I love the flavor of pomegranate so I’ve used it in three different ways in this low sugar cranberry sauce: pomegranate juice, pomegranate molasses, and fresh [...]

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Pan Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Pears

November 6, 2009

I very much look forward to the appearance of Brussels sprouts in my local markets; they are one of my favorite winter/fall veggies.
They are also seriously nutritious, with lots of vitamin C and Vitamin K.
In order to enjoy Brussels sprouts, though, you really need to cook them correctly. They are prone to both overcooking (not [...]

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