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I’ll be honest.  My husband won’t eat this for dinner.  It’s too veganly weird for him.  But he eats Wendy’s for lunch, and therefore loses all taste bud cred. If a Texan cowboy cooked vegan food with a barefooted yogi from northern India, they would probably end up with a Tex-Mex chili… read more

When I first met my husband in college, he didn’t like Indian food.  I made sure to note that one on my list of why I shouldn’t date him.  “Doesn’t like Indian food.” One trip to the Indian lunch buffet at India Pavilion was all it took to convert him to… read more

I love Indian food so much that my husband and I included it as part of our wedding festivities five and a half years ago.  When our guests RSVP’d, they had to choose “Traditional” or “Indian” fare instead of the usual beef or fish options.  In place of champagne, everyone was… read more

This is the no fuss archerfriendly version of Tom Kha Gai Soup, currently my hands-down favorite soup.  The traditional version is made from scratch with bird’s eye chilies, fresh lemongrass, galangal (Thai ginger) and fresh Kaffir lime leaves, but this is the no fuss version, so I use Thai red… read more

I grew up in the Pennsylvania Dutch region where butternut squash grow to the size of swan necks.  I use butternut squash in place of pumpkin in any recipe that calls for pumpkin, unless its a savory dish.  Butternut squash tastes superior to me than the popular sugar pie pumpkin… read more

When I was in college, the family I “mommy-helped” would often receive turnips through their CSA and pass them onto me because they didn’t know what to do with them.  I wasn’t quite sure either since I didn’t grow up eating turnips and didn’t know much about them.  Turnips and… read more

When my husband went to the store recently, I told him to pick out a weird squash for me.  I wanted to cook with a new one and I wanted to be surprised!  My husband came home, announcing that he picked out a “gold hubbard.”  Something about the name of this squash makes it… read more