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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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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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Garlic Chicken Spring Rolls Recipe

Fresh basil, fresh mint or any herb will be a wonderful addition. For the crunch factor, you can add raw carrots, celery, bell peppers or cucumbers. In this recipe, I added pickled Vietnamese carrots and daikon that I always have on hand.

Ingredients:

  • 2 pounds of boneless chicken
  • 4 Tablespoons of grape seed or vegetable oil
  • 2 medium cloves of garlic, minced
  • 2 teaspoons of sesame oil
  • 4 teaspoons soy sauce or fish sauce
  • fresh basil, mint or other herbs
  • fresh lettuce, chopped or torn in small pieces
  • carrots, celery, cucumbers, daikon radish or bell
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I know I’m not the only one who has gone through this, so I thought I’d finally say it publicly after 3 years of blogging.

Food blogging made me chunky-er, pleasantly plump or what ever you want to call it. My jeans didn’t zip anymore.

I’m not comfortable with the term “fat”. That F-word is so harsh and ugly. As true, blunt and effective it might be to get the point across that I need to get my ass on the tread mill, I don’t like “fat”.

I love chunky and pleasantly plump because it’s delicious sounding. These are yummy words to say how much I appreciate my foods and eating, but are fun and kind enough to tell me to get my ass in the gym. Nicely. Or in an exercise class. Politely. To get my ass off the blogging chair and start moving again. The daily reminder was that my jeans didn’t zip anymore.

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Peach and Heirloom Tomato Salad Recipe
  • 2 ripe peaches, pitted, sliced
  • 2 medium heirloom tomatoes
  • 4 Tablespoons of Olive or grapeseed oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
  • 3 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
  • 1/2 teaspoon fresh or dried thyme
  • goat cheese

1. In jar or medium bowl, combine vinaigrette ingredients well: oil, salt, lemon juice, balsamic vinegar and thyme.

2. On plate, assemble sliced peaches, tomatoes, crumbled goat cheese. Drizzle with vinaigrette on top. Serves 2 people.

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Summer Fest is a season long, bi-weekly event where Food Network editors team up with blogs to share tips and recipes about seasonal produce. During Summer Fest, we celebrate the the seasons explosion of fresh produce and inspired recipes.  This week’s theme are peaches and to participate, just share your peach recipe link in our blog on the comments below, as well as the blogs of all our participating friends!

Throughout the Summer we’re always staring at baskets full of heirloom tomatoes  and fresh fruit from the garden. This is definitely a good thing.  Not only do we get to be spoiled by the warm season’s bounty, but the garden possums, squirrels, and mockingbirds get to eat the fruit in full glory. Sharing is a good thing.

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Heirloom Tomato Salad Recipe

This recipe is so simple, it doesn’t really even need a write up!

Ingredients:

  • fresh, sweet heirloom tomatoes
  • olive oil
  • balsamic vinegar
  • fresh basil
  • sea or kosher salt
  • fresh cracked black pepper

1. Slice tomatoes and drizzle with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper. Slice or tear fresh basil leaves on top. Enjoy!


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This consistently cool weather had us apprehensive, particularly as heirloom tomato gardeners. With almost 20 heirloom tomatoes plants that we’ve been nurturing over the last few months, all we were hoping for was some hot sun to get these plants to bolt out with tomatoes. Unfortunately there hasn’t been much of the sun!

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Spring Fling is here and were celebrating Spring’s bounty with  Food Network,  Away to Garden, What’s Gaby Cooking and Food 52

This week’s theme is peas and to participate, just share your pea recipe link in our blog on the comments below, as well as the blogs of all our participating friends.

The end of Spring is fast approaching and we’re enjoying sweet peas as often as we can until the last pod appears at the markets. With another Spring Fling event planned for this week, we were searching for some interesting pea recipes to share. Nothing really unique came »

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Spring Fling is here and were celebrating Spring’s bounty with  Food Network,  Away to Garden, What’s Gaby Cooking and Food 52

This week’s theme is peas and to participate, just share your pea recipe link in our blog on the comments below, as well as the blogs of all our participating friends.

The end of Spring is fast approaching and we’re enjoying sweet peas as often as we can until the last pod appears at the markets. With another Spring Fling event planned for this week, we were searching for some interesting pea recipes to share. Nothing really unique came to mind and our collection of cookbooks didn’t have a recipe that really popped off the page either.

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Vietnamese Fried Egg Banh Mi Recipe (Banh Mi Trung Op La)- “The Bang Me”
Banh mi is all about the assembly and gathering all the components. Sometimes the cold cuts can be found at Vietnamese markets or you can make the meat fillings fresh. The bread is the most important factor, making sure it’s a light, crusty baguette to remain as close to a traditional Vietnamese Banh Mi as possible.

For the Banh Mi assembly (not all required):

  • 1 french baguette (soft centered crumb, crispy crust)
  • Vietnamese cold cuts or head cheese
  • Or other meat filling such as Braised Pork
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A naughty conversation on Twitterled me to scribble this post in my head. My mental ramblings often distract me from daily priorities and combine that with the power of twitter chit chat, I was pretty worthless for the rest of the day. I adore twitter hard, really hard because it’s enlightened me with new friendships and stimulating discussions that reach the far corners of the world. #Twitter #Love

Bánh Mì, the Vietnamese sandwich that has become a cultural icon, was the topic that excitedly ensued when I put out this twitter tweet to my tweeps (twitter code talk for 140 character jabber): #ShutUpDiane

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Chipotle Shredded Pork Enchiladas
Recipe and write up by the lovely ladies at Muy Bueno Cookbook. Taste tested, devoured, and photographed (not necessarily in that order) by us, White on Rice Couple. Warning: This recipe is spicy! If you are a wimp (ahem, I mean not a fan of spicy chile) then use half the can of chipotle peppers or add an additional can of tomato sauce. But don’t forget that the spice in the sauce will get mellowed a touch when added to the tortillas, pork, and other fillings.

Makes: 4-6 servings
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Happy Cinco De Mayo! Today we’re celebrating with a guest recipe from some of our favorite ladies. Please welcome our guest writers today: Evangelina, Yvette and Veronica, the lovely ladies from Muy Bueno Cookbook.

Today they are sharing the write-up for their amazing stacked Chipotle Shredded Pork Enchiladas!! They are home-cooks from El Paso, Texas who share their love of family, culture and food on their wonderful blog.

Photography by Todd & Diane (that’s us) and this fabulous Recipe is from Muy Bueno Cookbook.

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