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soba noodle salad with rainbow vegetables + sesame dressing
Today I watched a child walk, but it was more like hurtling because she ran down the street with abandon. Arms flailing, preparing for flight, she was a sight to see. Her joy, her presence made me...
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noodle salad with kale and chili-scallion oil
Can we just hit delete on this week and start over? What started as an irritating cough dovetailed, quickly, into a full-blown fever. It took collapsing on my couch — body ravaged with sweat — to...
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roasted cauliflower + chickpeas with mustard + parsley
Destroy! destroy! destroy! hums the under-consciousness. Love and produce! Love and produce! cackles the upper consciousness. And the world hears only the Love-and- produce cackle. Refuses to hear the...
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brunch for two: lemon chicken + roasted veg salad
LEMON CHICKEN INGREDIENTS: 2 large {or 4 small} chicken cutlets pounded to 1/2 inch thick | 1 cup whole wheat flour | 1 tsp cracked black pepper +1 tsp sea salt| Zest + juice of one lemon | 1 lemon...
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green rice salad with nectarines + corn
For a few short moments it stormed today. If you were in New York, you walked and brunched and laughed in sunshine, and then a moment later: darkness. Rain. Coming down in sheets. I cut a brunch with...
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lentil salad with chicken + mustard vinaigrette
Feasting on a different dish is easy when you have oceans of time to spend at home, cooking. Since I don’t lead a Gwyneth Paltrow lifestyle, where one has hours to putter about the house and chop...
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roasted veggie salad
When you come home from work and you are absolutely DONE with chicken, I’ve found that this roasted vegetable salad is saving me from the road to ruin. I’ve written about this salad before, however,...
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chicken + beef koftas with spinach, pomegranate, dill + cilantro salad
I love my friend Sarah, really love her. We met while working in book publishing, and bonded over the fact that our offices bookended an editor who believed life was lived by yelling on volume 10. We...
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simple side: cucumber dill salad
INGREDIENTS: 1/8 cup rice vinegar | 1 tbsp whole grain Dijon mustard | 1 tbsp honey | Sea Salt | Freshly ground black pepper | 1 shallot, thinly sliced | 1 large cucumber sliced with a veggie peeler |...
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chicken + chickpea green salad with creamy parsley dressing
Let me tell you about the morning I had. I woke, dragged myself to the shower–can we call a spade a spade and say I limped–to get ready for a spin class I couldn’t cancel, lest I be charged $20. The...
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kale, chickpea, cherry + wild rice salad with spicy yoghurt dressing
Maybe it’s the weather or possibly I’m bananas, but I bolted out of bed this morning with the feeling of so much possibility. Over the weekend I sent out notes to contacts in my network, alerting them...
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lentil salad with mustard dressing + shopping my cookbooks
Getting rid of books is a painful process. It’ll take me months, sometimes years, to let go of a book I rationally know I no longer desire or need. While I’m able to discard clothing and household...
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kale, brussels sprouts + pomegranate salad
You can’t imagine how wonderful it feels to make healthy food after The Epic Sadness Q4 2015 (sometimes I need a little humor to shine a light in the darkest of situations). For weeks, I stared into...
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