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Vegetarian Chili Recipe with Roastes chiles
Beware! not all chilies are alike. Normally I use anaheim chiles, but their spice level varies. Proceed with caution and add the roasted chiles to your personal taste and spice level. Also, when handling chiles, try to use gloves. 

Ingredients: 

  • 1 medium anaheim chili
  • 1 15 oz can of red beans, drained and rinsed
  • 1 large carrot, small dice, about 1/2 cup
  • 2 stalks celery, cleaned & ends trimmed. Small dice, about 1/2 cup
  • 1 red bell pepper, small dice, about 1 cup
  • 1 small onion, minced, about 1 cup
  • 2 large cloves garlic,
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Memories from my vegetarian days were coming back and reminded me of my college years. In fact, my days of being vegetarian lasted till not long ago, 2008. For 19 years, I lived a meatless life where I nourished my days with vegetables, tofu, legumes and occasional dairy products. Then I stumbled upon what was called a “food blog” and I slowly started eating meat again, leaving behind my nearly two decades of eating meat free.

I’ve been missing those vegetarian days, where I was often called a “veg head” by my circle of carnivores and herbivores. It never bothered me one bit when I was surrounded by meat and my choice back in college to start being a vegetarian wasn’t for political, social or religious reasons. I just didn’t like eating meat any more. Vegetables, legumes and whole grains satisfied me and nourished me completely. I was a happy eater and that was all that mattered.

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Spicy Garlic Knot Recipe
You can make them as spicy as you like depending on the chilies (variety and amount) and how much sriracha sauce you use. You can always go DIY insane and make your own sriracha. We’ve been known to do just that. There are two ways we usually roll out the knots, pinching off and weighing little balls of  to roll into the knots, or rolling the dough out, cutting it into even strips, rolling the strips into logs and twisting the logs into the knots. In our prior garlic knot post we described the latter, this »

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This has been an incredible week at the Steamy Kitchen Compound/Resort/Farm/Retreat. Home. Diane and I red-eyed a flight across the country on Sunday night, arriving with the sunrise on Monday. Jaden is in the process of her next fantabulous cookbook and we came in for the week to help her power through a section of the photography. We rounded out the team with Jenna from Eat, Live, Run to complete our shooting posse.
This week flew by. Jenna and I prepped, seared, and sliced away in the kitchen while Diane and Jaden sistered up in Jaden’s studio to finish styling and shoot the recipes. The rhythm and efficiency of the team was astounding, if I do say so with pure humility. The first full day we cranked out 16 beautiful recipes and it seemed effortless. Each day, even after busting out a ton of recipes, we wound down by shaking up some cocktails, pouring glasses of wine and then we cooked some more. What is better than home cooked meals with people you love hanging out with?

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Too much of a good thing is certainly possible. Take for example, my favorite sandwich in the world, Vietnamese Banh Mi. But wait, before you blame me for being biased (you’re absolutely right anyways), allow me to clarify a few things about my subjective love of this sandwich.

Yes, I’m Viet-Nam born, am Vietnamese at heart, and grew up eating banh mi for as long as I can remember when I started chewing solid foods. I often took this sandwich for granted as a grade school kid and was often embarrassed about taking it into my school lunch bag for »

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Too much of a good thing is certainly possible. Take for example, my favorite sandwich in the world, Vietnamese Banh Mi. But wait, before you blame me for being biased (you’re absolutely right anyways), allow me to clarify a few things about my subjective love of this sandwich.

Yes, I’m Viet-Nam born, am Vietnamese at heart, and grew up eating banh mi for as long as I can remember when I started chewing solid foods. I often took this sandwich for granted as a grade school kid and was often embarrassed about taking it into my school lunch bag for fear of being sniffed out. As soon as this sandwich emerged from my bag, my classmates would pick up the aroma of pungent pickled daikon and carrots.

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One of the best jobs in the world is doing what you love. It doesn’t really matter what it is, as long as you love doing it. For us, working with food and wonderful people devoted to their craft of feeding, cooking and creating in the kitchen keeps us satisfied and happy. The folks over at Cooking Channel are a fine example of dedicated, passionate individuals who love and care about food to the tenth degree.

We were super thrilled to be asked by Cooking Channel to contribute some recipes and photography to their blog, Devour. Working with the Cooking »

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One of the best jobs in the world is doing what you love. It doesn’t really matter what it is, as long as you love doing it. For us, working with food and wonderful people devoted to their craft of feeding, cooking and creating in the kitchen keeps us satisfied and happy. The folks over at Cooking Channel are a fine example of dedicated, passionate individuals who love and care about food to the tenth degree.

We were super thrilled to be asked by Cooking Channel to contribute some recipes and photography to their blog, Devour. Working with the Cooking Channel Devour team is a dream. They’re all such terrific people and it’s such an honor to collaborate with each an every single one of them.

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Curry Chicken Wings Recipe
  • 5 lbs Chicken Wings, tips trimmed, wings cut into 2 pieces
  • 1/2 c Flour
  • 1/4 c Curry Powder
  • 14 oz Coconut Milk
  • 3 T Curry Powder
  • 3 T Honey
  • 1 1/2 T Fish Sauce
  • 1 1/2 T Chili Garlic Sauce

Preheat oven 475°F. Line 2 baking sheets with foil and spray with oil to lightly coat.

  1. Rinse and pat dry chicken wings.  Combine flour and 1/4 c curry powder in a large bowl. Toss chicken wings into flour/curry mix.
  2. Lay out wings into a single layer on baking sheets. Bake in oven approx. 40 minutes or
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Thanksgiving. Post-Thanksgiving stupor. Holiday parties. Travel. Shopping. Gift-giving cooking. Post office purgatory. Christmas. New Years. Visiting family and friends. Bowl game parties. NFL game gatherings. With all of this thrown on top of everyday life, as the cooks in our clans it isn’t surprising most of us feel like we just got Gronked.

Yet most of us wouldn’t trade it for the world. For some, cooking in the kitchen is a chore, yet for most of us, it is one of the best places in the world. A place where we pour our hearts and souls into the food to bring a smile to those we love.

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Buttermilk Fried Rabbit Recipe  

From the book Girl Hunter by Georgia Pellegrini.  Excerpted by arrangement with Da Capo Lifelong, a member of the Perseus Books Group.  Copyright © 2011.

Serves 4

Also try: chicken, turkey, squirrel, dove, upland game birds, or any other young game meat

  •  1 young cottontail rabbit, cut into serving pieces
  • 2 cups buttermilk
  • 1 medium-size onion, sliced
  • 3 garlic cloves, diced
  • 1 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 1 teaspoon dried thyme
  • 1 teaspoon dried tarragon, or 1 teaspoon each of your three favorite dried herbs
  • 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
  • 1 tablespoon cayenne
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1
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This past Summer we traveled to Texas to film Georgia Pellegrini’s promo video for her new book, Girl Hunter. We were thrilled to be able to have the opportunity to work with Georgia. Have you heard of Georgia and her accomplishments or visited her site? If not, you should, she is amazing.

Georgia graduated from Harvard and worked in finance at Lehman Brothers in New York City. But something drew her to food and so she left finance and entered culinary school at The French Culinary Institute in New York City, where she graduated at the top of her class. To top off it all off, she went on to work as a classically trained Chef at some of New York City’s finest restaurants and also in France. It’s jaw dropping to just read of her credentials, but the most important factor in all this is that Georgia is the sweetest, smartest, down to Earth person  you’ll ever meet.

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Brussels Sprouts Slaw with Bacon Recipe
  • 1 lb Brussels Sprouts, sliced or shaved thin
  • 1/2 t Celery Salt
  • 1/2 cup Mayo
  • 1 clove Garlic, minced
  • 1 t Lemon Juice
  • zest of one Lemon
  • 1 T Dijon Mustard
  • Sea Salt to taste
  • about 4 slices of fried Bacon, broken into small pieces
  • about 1/4 c toasted Pecans

1. Wash and trim edges of brussels sprouts. Slice brussels sprouts very thin.

2. In large bowl, combine celery salt, mayo, garlic, lemon juice, lemon zest, dijon mustard and salt. Add shaved brussels sprouts and combine well.

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Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving full of belly happy food that put you in a coma for a few hours. What’s a Thanksgiving without the typical surrender shout of “Omg, I ate too much I couldn’t help myself”? Normally every year we’ll indulge and look forward having a few days of extra left overs to nosh on. But this year we were so disciplined about how much we ate that we didn’t even have any left overs. Believe it or not, it’s true.

We spent our holiday up in San Francisco with family and had to drive back on Thanksgiving afternoon back to Los Angeles. So during our Thanksgiving brunch we were careful to not eat ourselves to the point of being comatose because of the impending 7 hour drive back home. We were so “good” about this that we didn’t even have any dessert. Now that’s what you call will power!

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Curried Smashed Potatoes Recipe
We like using fingerling potatoes the most for this recipe, but any small potato will work nicely (Baby Reds, Baby Yukons, etc.) Serves 4-6.

  • 2 lbs. Fingerling Potatoes, scrubbed and dried
  • 1/4 c Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 2 T unsalted Butter
  • 2 T Curry Powder (for initial braise of potatoes)
  • 14 oz Coconut Milk
  • 3 T Curry Powder (for curry sauce)
  • 3 T Honey
  • 1 1/2 T Fish Sauce
  • 1 1/2 T Chili Garlic Sauce
  • Extra Virgin Olive Oil for searing potatoes
  1. In a large saute pan over medium heat, combine potatoes, olive oil, butter, and
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Smashed Potatoes. Not mashed. Cooked whole, smashed to flatten and crack, then seared on a pan to crisp up. It is our favorite way to have a good potato, and that’s saying a lot considering how much comfort and love we have for the almighty tuber.

Smashed potatoes have been around for quite a while, but for us our exposure and love of smashed potatoes comes from some of our favorite ladies in the kitchen. Cristina Ferrare fixed us up a batch for her cookbook we photographed, A Big Bowl of Love. Then made them again for the cover shoot party and somehow managed to stay gorgeous and camera ready for us while fixing up a feast for 25 people. That day it was a battle between Diane and Jen (who was so gracious to assist with the cover shoot) over who could eat more of Cristina’s smashed potatoes. They are goooood!

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Pina Colada Truffles Recipe:

  • 12 ounces white chocolate, coarsely chopped
  • 2 ounces cream
  • 1 ounce coconut milk
  • pinch of kosher salt
  • 1 tablespoon dark rum
  • 1/4 cup finely chopped candied pineapple, about 1 ring
  • 2 pounds white chocolate, tempered.
  • 1/2 cup finely shredded dried coconut, unsweetened
  • 8 candied cherries, each cut into 8 slices

1. Line an 8×8 inch baking pan with plastic wrap

2. Use a food processor for to finely chop the coarsely chopped white chocolate. Bring the cream, coconut milk, and salt to a boil over medium-high heat in a 1 quart saucepan. Add the rum and »

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Sometimes a sweet treat is all it takes to boost the spirit. We know this well, the power of a great piece of candy to make us feel like a kid again. Normally, we don’t eat much candy but when fresh, homemade candy is put in front of us, we’re definitely ready to indulge.

Last year we were asked to photograph and style Sweet Confections candy cookbook written by amazing Nina Wanat. The 5 day shoot was such a treat to be surrounded by homemade candies, all made with love by Nina. You can read her interview from Lark Books here. So we’re excited to be sharing with you all this new book that is now available!

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Roasted Delicata Squash w/ Rosemary
Delicata squash has a wonderfully tender skin which can been eaten after roasting. Serves 4.
  • 2 Delicata Squash (@ 1lb each), sliced in 1/2″ slices
  • 1 T finely chopped fresh Rosemary
  • 1 T Olive Oil
  • 1 t Sea Salt
  • 1/2 t fresh cracked Black Pepper

Preheat oven to 400°F Roast

  1. Toss all ingredients on a sheet pan. Level the squash to be in a single layer. Roast in the oven for 30-35 minutes or until soft and slightly golden. Serve warm.

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Re-Awakened. That’s how I would describe the aftermath of traveling.

Even as aware as we try to be at home, it is easy to fall into our routines. We tend to focus on the familiar and filter out the rest. There is comfort and warmth in the familiar. However sometimes something exceptional is right under our noses and we never notice.

Yet when we travel, our senses are alive. Everything seems fresh and new. We seek out the different and exceptional. The heart and eyes are open at nearly every moment, ready for discovery. And after we get home from our travels, for a time, this sense of openly seeking stays with us, like the perfume of a beautiful woman just after she has left the room.

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