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bean + pulse

Chilled lentil soup + peppermint

19 July 2010

I have a habit of reading cookbooks like most people read novels, with the frequent result of winding up hungry. Or – somewhat more embarrassingly – nodding off at night, dreaming of dinner, and then winding up hungry for some dish, ingredient, or another. At 4:30 in the morning. This happened once with lentils. I’d […]

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Chicken + chickpea tagine

4 June 2010

It’s not summer. It’s not summer. It’s not summer. I can’t hear you; it’s not summer. Thermometer, I can’t see you! It is not summer. It isn’t summer for another several weeks, I know, but by way of a preemptive confession: Unless there is sand and ocean, I hate hot weather. I grew up in […]

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Lentils with caramelized onions + gingery spinach

20 May 2010

and The Underpants Gnomes Theory of Weight Loss:* 1) Eat, torturously 2) … 3) Look great!!!** Moody Food does not do diets. We’re sure they work for lots of people; we just don’t know any of them. And Moody Food is unfortunately not Catholic. We don’t believe in guilt as a useful disincentive or incentive […]

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As you like it

15 February 2010

Cassoulet can be made in any of an infinite number of ways. If you get excited about this sort of thing (I do.), then it makes you wonder what the thing is, other than a word. A friend had been prattling on about his love for the dish for weeks. When finally asked what goes […]

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bean + pulse

Chilled lentil soup + peppermint

Chicken + chickpea tagine

Lentils with caramelized onions + gingery spinach

As you like it

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