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Sweet and Sour Tofu

I CANNOT begin to describe how much glee it gives me to return my a childhood love – sweet and sour dishes. As a kid, it was the pork that got me. But now, Eastfarthing has found us this amazing

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Sweet Potato and Black Bean Chili

We’ve been looking for ways to incorporate more sweet potato into our meals… and there’s no such thing as too much black bean! This is a modification of this recipe over at Eating Well. Sweet Potato and Black Bean Chili

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Bayou Chopped Salad

The Shorty first found this idea at her workplace cafeteria, and loved it so much she had to recreate it at home. This is a buffet-style salad, so set up the ingredients below and let family members mix their own.

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Egg Lentil Curry

This is a protein-packed and highly flexible dish. There’s lots of room to modify measurements to whatever happens to be in the pantry, and the eggs and lentils can be cooked up to a week in advance (possibly while fixing

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How We Hard Boil Eggs

There have got to be several dozens of sets of instructions online regarding egg boiling, and I’ve run across several folks convinced that they don’t do it well. It’s true it can be tricky, and the “right” way to do

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Baked Tofu Marsala

I first found this recipe in a video by Fearn Smith and Russell Pierce. It looked tasty enough to figure out ingredient amounts, so I did. And I posted it here in October of last year. It’s a pretty awesome

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Tofu Pesto

If you haven’t made your own pesto before, it’s super easy! The recipe (and picture) below include garlic bread. NOTE: The baked tofu created in steps 1 and 2 also works wonderfully well as a dry snack straight out of

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Creamy Tomato Soup

Somebody found this delicious tomato soup recipe and made it for us the other night. They adapted this recipe. Creamy Tomato Soup 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter About 10 sprigs thyme 1 medium/large Vidalia onion, thinly sliced 4 garlic

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Spicy Citrus Black Beans

We have lentil dishes and red bean dishes, plenty of soy dishes and dishes with lots of different beans. But now we finally have a dish that showcases my favorite bean, and the most beautiful bean. Noms!! This is an

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What To DO With Tofu!!

If you haven’t cooked with tofu before, it might be intimidating to think about. But it needn’t be! With just a few tips and tricks, you can be well on your way to tasty tofu dishes. With all the tofu

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