Healthy food can be delicious

Enough time has passed, and I feel that it is about time to write about my daughter Olive’s journey. This is part for her and part of therapy for me. I would like her to understand what it was like while all the details are fresh in my mind. Before I talk about Olive, I…

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Summer chili

Summer Chili And A Few Thoughts On Produce

Bearnaise sauce The thing about being a Mashugana is that I spend much of my time supporting things that don’t exactly fit into a healthy lifestyle. When I’m not ranting about various forms of alcohol, I can generally be found chasing my tail around Denver seeking out decadent and visceral food experiences. I’m constantly on…

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Gajar ka Halwa

Gajar ka Halwa Recipe (Carrot Halwa)

gajar ka halwaGajar ka Halwa Recipe (Carrot Halwa) with Minimum IngredientsThe Gajar ka halwa recipe is a very popular dessert. Some people call it simple gajar halwa (Carrot halwa). Anyway, here we will find outhow to prepare gajar ka halwa with minimum ingredients. It is a very sweet dish. It is not only very popular…

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Stir-fried beef and chayote

Stir-fried beef and chayote

Inspired by a dish that chef Luke Nguyen cooked in his TV show, this stir-fried beef and chayote combo is another example of the yin-yang concept that is found across various Asian cuisines. The ingredients are simple, few, and inexpensive, the seasonings are minimal, and yet, the aroma and flavors are so complex, that one…

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Spring rolls

Spring rolls

Posted a tuna spring roll recipe using cooked fresh tuna. Although I will always prefer fresh over canned, today is one day when I didn’t have time to thaw anything from the freezer as it was almost lunchtime when I got out of bed. The solution? An easy dish that takes little time to prepare….

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Pasta la puttanesca

Pasta la puttanesca

With the interval of postings on this blog, you’d think we haven’t been eating at home. It’s not that I haven’t been cooking; it’s just that I haven’t been blogging too much lately. At least, not in my personal blogs. There’s this project in my kids’ school and I was focused on it for the…

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Chocolate Cake

Peppermint Schnapps Chocolate Cake

I went to an office party and a coworker brought in a Peppermint Schnapps Chocolate Cake. This cake was awesome. It was a very moist chocolate cake with a hint of peppermint.  He used a Rum Cake recipe and replaced the Rum with Peppermint Schnapps. Replaced the Yellow Cake mix with replaced the vanilla pudding…

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Fad Diets

Fad Diets

Most of us want to eat healthily. Most of us want to be slim or be able to maintain our weight.Hands in the air who have tried fad diets? I can see a large number of virtual you are holding up their hands.Now keep your hands in the air who kept to the same fad…

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