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The Betty Crocker Project : The Mexicali Beef-less Steak Dinner & Potlucking Stone Soup Style
There is a lot going on here… 4 recipes in fact. Keep reading it will all make sense. Growing up one of my very favorite stories was called Stone Soup. If you’re not familiar, it’s a very old European folk tale that goes something like […]
The Family Album : Herbivore’s Michelle Schwegmann makes ‘Eating Taco Salad Like You Give A Damn’ cooler than ever… Spoiler: There are Fairies involved.
This is what it is all about. Amen. Many of you already know Michelle Schwegmann as the poster grrl for The Herbivore Clothing Company but did you know that she’s more than just a pretty face? She’s a pretty bad ass vegan chef who recently […]
The Betty Crocker Project : Special Leftovers Edition
We get a lot of questions about what to do with leftovers. So we thought we’d share some of our favorites thus far. Exhibit A : I was calling it The Patty Mac. (see photo above) We made about 2-3 cups of macaroni and mixed […]
The Betty Crocker Project : Reuben Sandwich with Coleslaw
I’m a simple woman. I love my husband and my cats. I love Patsy Cline and nice tall glasses of iced tea. I love walking through Manhattan in the rain and red shoes. I love Reuben sandwiches. I mean it is a sandwich that includes […]
The Betty Crocker Project : Taco Salad
I had planned on writing this whole thing about how there are a lot of Americans who don’t eat good Mexican food… citing examples like the caulking guns they use at Taco Bell to serve their bean and guacamole pastes, their strange octagon […]
The Betty Crocker Project : Mexi Shells
Easter was very inconvenient this year. We had big plans for organic Cuban beans and whole wheat shells from Trader Joe’s and Daiya soy cheese . . . but apparently corporate America is not as heartless as one would think and store after store was […]
The Betty Crocker Project : Mandarin Chicken Salad
So I have to admit we didn’t make it to 8 glasses of wine at Passover this weekend – BUT we sure tried. So the next morning – around 7 a.m. when Percy started scratching on our bedroom door – banging really – I mean […]