Easy Edamame Recipe, Great Nutrition, & More

[1] These edamame are better than the ones at Japanese restaurants! Deft spicing makes the super-delish (recipe and photo © Hannah Kamkinsky | Bittersweet Blog). [2] We came across this side and it’s become a favorite. Here’s the recipe. You can make it with white rice, but brown rice delivers a better symphony of flavors.…
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Dixie Grace’s Boiled Peanuts: Another Way To Enjoy Goobers

Truth to tell, we had never heard of boiled peanuts, a Southern specialty. While many Southern specialties—barbecue, chicken and waffles, cornbread, hot sauce, and pecan pie, for example—not to mention Bourbon—boiled peanuts had never crossed our path. But when Dixie Grace’s wrote to us to try her boiled peanuts—and added that there was a National…
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Weekend Baking: Chocolate Macadamia Macaroon Cookies

Why is it that we only think of baking macaroons around Passover? This cookie, composed of coconut and egg whites, was created by Italian Jews for the eight days of Passover, because it has no flour or leavening (which cannot be eaten during the observance). The recipe was introduced to other European Jews and became…
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A Sweet & Sour Cabbage Soup Recipe For National Cabbage Day

February 17th happens to be National Cabbage Day, and this week it also falls on Meatless Monday. And it’s cold out. So it couldn’t be a better day to make this Sweet & Sour Cabbage Soup, a hearty bowlful of cold-weather comfort that’s also: Cruciferous: full of cancer-preventing antioxidants and other nutrition†. Vegan/Non-Dairy: which make…
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A Warm Eggplant Salad Recipe For A Chilly Winter Day

[1] This easy-to-make Warm Eggplant Salad hit the spot on a chilly day. When it’s warm out, enjoy it hot or chilled (recipe and photos #1 and #2 © Hannah Kaminsky | Bittersweet Blog). [2] A graffiti eggplant. The variety looks like the fairytale eggplant (photo #4) but the latter is much smaller—a mini size.…
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