Spinach, Zucchini, and Mint Tart- Gluten-Free and Delicious

As I mentioned a few posts ago, my cousin Joanna is brilliant.  A few weeks ago she treated me to an incredible lunch that really got my wheels turning: she used shredded potato to create a gluten-free base for a tart.  Inspired, I used the same idea to present one of my most successful original recipes-- a gluten-free spinach, zucchini, and mint tart with a sweet potato base. Ingredients 2 sweet potatoes 2 zucchini 1/3 lb spinach (this is one of those 150g plastic containers), washed 1/4-1/3c fresh mint leaves 4 garlic cloves, minced 1/2c plain yogurt (Greek is best, naturally) 1...

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Resolutions in Action: Applesauce!

I was making this applesauce while writing yesterday's post about doughless pizza.  If I had finished the applesauce before the post, I would NEVER have wasted my Swagu joke on the pizza because this sauce has me swearing never to storebuy applesauce again--but, alas, you could only use a bad joke once.   In the spirit of some serious multi-tasking, I was also mid-way through the BEST pep talk from my mom, who always seems to know when I need some tough love and when I just need my mom to tell me that I'm great.  So, it's only fitting that today you get a recipe PLUS a kefi...

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A Grainless Dream Come True: Cauliflower Pizza with Sweet Potatoes and Kale

Prepare yourself, friends-- what follows is simply dripping Swagu. (If you don't know...you don't know.) Look at that puppy! Let me break this pizza down for you: a cauliflower/cheese crust covered in smoky marinara sauce, balsamic kale, sweet potato "fries" and then some MORE damn cheese.  Is this a joke? No. But is sure as shootin is delicious. Several months ago, I gave up a group of foods I loosely refer to as "grains"-- no flour, rice, quinoa, couscous, bulgur, wheatberry, etc.  I will give you the full scoop another day, but since that day in June I have been pretty-much...

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My Cousin is Better Than Your Cousin

There are some things I don't do often. One is travel north during the winter. The other is eat tofu for dessert. Today I had the extreme pleasure of doing both, and lived to tell the tale.  I took up a trip up yonder to visit my cousin Joanna at her lovely home with an enviably-stocked kitchen and three BEAUTIFUL dogs and, in exchange, she cooked me the best meal of 2012 thus far.  She's soon to be a Master of Nutrition (how do you like THEM apples?) and has recently taken on a 30-day Vegan Challenge. The meal she made was seriously inspiring - check out the whole vegan, gluten-free...

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Cauliflower "mashed potatoes" and Wasabi-Sesame Salmon

Big big big big BIIIIIG news in my culinary life- 12 cup big news, in fact!  Thanks to Mama Kef and JimmyKef, I am now the very proud new owner of a grown-up food processor! My cat is jealous of the new baby in the house.   No more trying to make soup in three batches, no more cleaning up leaked chick pea juice because I tried to make 3 cups of hummus in a 2-cup mini-processor, no more having to wash it out 6 times for one recipe.  This year, 15 April isn't just tax day; it's the day my Greek Easter game goes on some next level ish because I have this hot lil mama!   Ok,...

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Resolutions in Action: Spicy Kale Coconut Soup

Every so often, the literati get together and decide the superlative pre-fix du jour.  For a while it was "hyper-" -- hyperactive, hypersensitive, hyperextended.  Then it was mega-- megachurch, Megatron, MegaBus.  Currently, "super-" is enjoying its hayday: Citizens United gave birth to the super PAC, complete and utter Congressional dysfunction created an ironically-named Super Committee, and Oprah (aka: SuperWoman) has brought to my attention the SuperFood.    As you may recalll, I pledged that 2012 would be the year I would eat more of these so-called superfoods. ...

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A Friendly Warning: Don't Tangle Your Rope in My Rope!

While the whole world coos over Jennifer Hudson's weight loss, I holdfast to the one truth I know: thick girls will never go out of style. Jennifer, I will be here in the size 10/12 section waiting for you when you get tired of eating for weight loss and want to start eating for health. That being said, I am a HUGE Jennifer Hudson fan (pun perhaps intended) and JetSet Kef is a HUGE Dr. Oz fan and it is not often that those worlds intersect.  So here's a quick clip of Jennifer doing her in a big way and showing Dr. Oz a thing or two about some jump rope. ...

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Occupy the Grocery Store: Shakshouka to Beat the Post-Holiday Blahs

The good news is that the world did not, in fact, end; the bad news is that the carte blanche for holiday carbs HAS.  As of 2 January, calories count again (1 Jan was a Sunday... nobody starts resolving anything on a Sunday, am I right?) and we're obligated to stop eating like there will be no tomorrow. Sadness prevails. While I was celebrating the New Year, I ran into a dear old friend of mine and his fiancee who told me about shakshouka, which apparently is all the rage on the Tel Aviv late night scene (I heard the Philly P branch closed there, too).  Now it bears telling that I...

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