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In her eighth month of pregnancy, the cooing of Kroy Kim about his father and his new McMansion with a children's pool, basketball court and a cinema. More 10 to find a home with plenty of room for her wigs. Pregnancy agrees with Kim. It's the best excuse to complain that their breasts are too heavy and lounge in bed all day. More than 5 to realize you're pregnant is not a free pass to eat. Of

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Welcome to multimenonwrites

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Today on Serious Eats: Meringue Cookies, fat-free sweets for under a buck per batch. Mama likes.When I was little, there were two kinds of sick days. The first involved contracting some hideous childhood disease, toughing out the equally traumatic remedy, and missing seminal chunks of my education. (See: third grade chicken pox, oatmeal baths, and long division. I only learned what a remainder

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This post was originally published in November 2008. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!Every year, I suspend my healthy diet for one heralded November day. No, not Election Day, during which I’m usually too queasy to eat – but that most glorious of bird-based holidays, Thanksgiving.Then, 24 hours later, I enter an equally magical shame spiral, since I’ve just consumed enough calories to keep me alive

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Liberals avoid fast food and love ethnic dishes.Conservatives choose fattier meals and don’t eat much fruit.While these statements may sound like stereotypes, they actually come from “How Food Preferences Vary by Political Ideology,” the results of an eight-month survey conducted by Hunch.com. Thousands of self-identified left- and right-wingers participated, answering questions about everything

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Written by the fabulous Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about all things Vegetarian. It's a little early and slightly unhealthier than usual because ... well, hey ... it's Thanksgiving.This Thanksgiving, I’ll be making my first real apple pie. It’s a dessert I’ve never attempted because a) it seemed too hard, and 2) my Grandma made the best apple pie ever. But, it’s been at least

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Today on Serious Eats: Sausage, Apple, and Cranberry Stuffing. Because you can never have enough stuffing. And you can never say the word “stuffing” enough times in a blog post. (Also: stuffing.)This year, in preparation for our Thanksgiving posts, I cooked and ate two 9x13 trays of stuffing, all by myself. It was grueling, tongue-bending work. But somebody had to do it. And somebody had to keep

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This week, it’s the dangers of fruit juice, a raw food experiment for the ages, and lots of stuff about this obscure eating day scheduled sometime next week. I think there are pilgrims involved? And maybe a cranberry or something? I’ve never heard of it before, so …1) New York Times: 101 Head Starts on the DayMark Bittman compiles over a hundred make-ahead recipes for Thanksgiving, once again

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Penned by the effervescent Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about the wide world of Vegetarianism. Last week, my CHG lovelies, we discussed hosting and main dishes for a vegetarian/vegan-friendly Thanksgiving. This week it’s all about the Side Dish. The side dish is a vegetarian’s best friend. When you’re just starting out on the veggie path, loading up on sides is an easy way to

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Ahhh …. the Great American Day of Eating is once again upon us. And ye gods, what better way to celebrate than three-dozen of CHG’s favorite holiday-appropriate recipes? Finally, my secret, somewhat disturbing love of sweet potatoes serves a purpose: to warm the innards of others on Thanksgiving. Besides those beloved yams, there’s a gaggle of veggie dishes (with an unexpected focus on Brussels

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This was originally published in November 2008. The links have been updated for 2009.Thanksgiving is upon us, and I don’t know about you, but I’ve read approximately 40,000,000 blog posts and magazine articles dealing with next Thursday's dinner. And that’s just this morning.Yeah, Turkey Day can overwhelming, and with so many experts on the subject, sometimes it’s difficult to find information on

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Welcome everyone, to the 204th edition of the Festival of Frugality, here at Cheap Healthy Good!Last time us CHG people hosted FoF, the theme revolved around mix tapes. Alas, times have changed, and kids these days are all about newfangled MP3 technology. (*Harrumph* Get off my lawn! *harrumph*) So, this time, we're going with playlists. For best results, listen to each song as you’re reading the

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Today on Serious Eats: Tomatillo Guacamole. You will want to eat it. Frequently, even. A few months ago, some bad chicken lo mein taught me everything I ever wanted to know about food poisoning (but was too preoccupied with vomiting to ask). In ten years of professional employment, I’d never called out sick two days in a row. Four days of shivering, fever, and non-stop bathroom trips later, my

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This week, it’s the beginning of the Thanksgiving deluge, lots of debate about vegetarianism, and the power of Pepin. Good stuff!To the right: the book I wrote with the Husband-Elect was on the shelf at Barnes & Noble! Yay! It was right between Hairy Hunks: A Celebration of Shaggy Stallions and You Say I'm a Bitch Like it's a Bad Thing. So ... very fitting. 1) Serious Eats: Turkey Brining

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Written by the fabulous Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about all things Vegetarian.(Find Vegetarian Thanksgiving Tips, Part II: Sides here.)The how-to-survive-holidays trope has become as traditional as pumpkin pie. But for so many vegetarians and vegans, it’s still a struggle to negotiate a group meal with family, and even friends, during holiday celebrations that revolve around

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For the first half of our quick guide to dietary restrictions, head to Dietary Restrictions 101, Part I: Allergies, Diabetes, and Beyond.Being a LOCAVORE is an old concept with newfound popularity. It involves buying chow either grown or raised close to your geographic location. (A 100-mile radius is the most common parameter used.) Locavorism is better for the both the environment and your

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For the second half of our quick guide to dietary restrictions, head to Dietary Restrictions 101, Part I: Locavorism, Macrobiotics, and More. Maybe you’ve prepared a lovely pot roast dinner, only to discover one of your guests is a lifelong vegan. Perhaps you accidentally ordered chicken parmesan for a lactose-intolerant friend with poultry allergies. Or mayhaps your 13-year-old just announced

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Welcome to our third installment of Ask the Internet! This week, our question comes from a tall, pale, somewhat out-of-shape frugal food blogger who’s marrying her Husband-Elect in a little under ten months. She writes:Q: I’m a tall, pale, somewhat out-of-shape frugal food blogger who’s marrying my Husband-Elect in a little under ten months. Our wedding venue is providing us with four kinds of

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Today in my Serious Eats column: Mushroom Risotto. It's like eating Sherwood Forest in the best possible way. A long, long time ago (2008) in a galaxy far, far away (this very blog) I made potato gnocchi, and promised that a butternut squash version would be not far behind. A-year-and-a-half later (which isn’t too long, when you consider the age of the Earth), here it is. As a depressed and

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Good roundup this week, with a wide-ranging group of posts that might be the last of their kind before Thanksgivingmania takes over. To the right: Rach's kitteh, an LOLcat in the making.1) Dark Roasted Blend: Weird Stuff McDonald’s Sells Around the WorldMcSpaghetti, anyone? How about some seaweed-flavored French fries? Perhaps a Thai Spicy Fish McDipper will entice you? If you’d like to see the

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Written by the fabulous Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about all things Vegetarian.  Some friends and I went camping in the Adirondacks over Indigenous People’s Day weekend. We had a fab time, though it was a tad chilly and three of us tipped our canoe into Lake George. On the way back to the city, I made the offhand remark to J and T that I’d never been to Vermont. From the map,

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Up until a few months ago, it seemed like TV cooking shows were ignoring the Great Recession. Hosts made few references to money, and most continued to use good cheeses, expensive fish, and upscale add-ons like truffle oil in their recipes. It was as if the programs existed in a vacuum, where no one was unemployed, and the economy was just fine. Then, in May 2009, came Sandra’s Money Saving

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The community garden across the street is being torn down, disenfranchising a few locals. This showed up in our yard yesterday. That's a 9-inch loaf pan.I debated posting this on a frugal food blog, but figured it would stop the "Why don't city people just grow their own food?" question forevermore. I will never stop shuddering.

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Hey everybody! It's the second installment of our new Tuesday column, Ask the Internet. Today’s question comes from Amber, a student on a student’s budget. She travels frequently to conferences, and finds herself torn between eating healthy and eating for free. She writes:Q: I am a PhD student, and go to conferences several times a year. The food at these things is deadly - coffee and pastries

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Today in my Serious Eats column: Pork Chops with Green Apple and Tomatillo Sauce. Three thumbs up! Do you guys ever feel bad for your appliances? I do. Especially when I haven’t used them for awhile. I figure they must get lonely, all dust-covered and isolated from their more functional friends.My handheld beater? It hasn’t received any love since Bob the StandMixer entered the picture. And my

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Great googly moogly, there are just a ton of quality links this week, many Halloween-related. A quick, exciting reminder, too: CHG now has both Facebook and Twitter accounts. Hooray for inconsequential-yet-amusing methods of modern communication!1) Eater: Rachael Ray Starts a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame PetitionIn what can only be described as a national travesty, Hall & Oates have not yet been

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Penned by the effervescent Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about the wide world of Vegetarianism. What do you do when you need a quick meal, have veggie dogs leftover from camping, but the only mustard is the fancy balsamic garlic mustard you picked up in at the New England Maple Museum in Vermont? (Oh, we’ll visit there again, CHG campers, don’t you worry.) If you’re me, you

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Salt helps water boil faster. An avocado pit will keep guacamole from browning. Soda will eat through basically anything, Alien-style.We’ll hear hundreds of food myths in our lifetime. Some, thank Snopes, will be inarguably disproved, while others will remain as persistent as head colds, altering both what we eat and how we cook. And still more myths will be made up as we go along, as technology

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Hi everybody! Today marks the first installment of an experimental, semi-frequent advice column, CHG Asks the Internet. Alexis writes in:Q: I just found out I have to have my gallbladder out in three weeks and my surgeon said I cannot eat any fat until then... I usually cook low-fat, but no-fat is a little daunting. Do you have a list of recipes with no fat at all in them? I plain to look through

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So, here’s a thing: the Husband-Elect and I wrote a book! A real book! With pages! And art! And an ISBN number and everything! And it comes out today!It’s called The Emergency Gift Book: More Than 100 Instant Gifts to the Rescue, and it’s not about food whatsoever. But the writing is splendid (if I do say so myself) and the illustrations are even better. For more, here’s the official Amazon

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Today on Serious Eats: Butternut Squash Apple Cranberry Bake. Mmm ... autumn.It’s tough avoiding cliché when attempting to explain Chez Panisse’s Butternut Squash Risotto. Not because it’s lame. Nope. Rather, it's because the dish assaults your senses, leaving them huddled in a corner, murmuring happily to themselves about how they never had it so good. So, you gotta resort to phrases both tried

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Today launches the Megalinks in brand new Friday top ten form. While you're scrolling, don't forget to check out the honorable mentions section, a short list of other noteworthy stories and posts. It's a linkapalooza, minus the obligatory Jane's Addiction reunion.1) Improv Everywhere: Grocery Store MusicalYears ago, I took improv comedy classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York.

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Written by the fabulous Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about all things Vegetarian. Hi Readers! I thought of you every time I went grocery shopping or cooked a meal over the last month. I’m so happy we’re back together.Back in June of 2008, I wrote an article about hidden meat that can trip up vegetarians and vegans, warning particularly of fish and chicken stock in soups.

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Some will balk at their flavor and size. Many will have texture issues. And still others just won’t enjoy the farting.But know this: there are few cheaper, healthier, and more versatile foods than the humble bean. Members of the legume family, beans can be found everywhere from gourmet restaurants to campfire cauldrons. They’ve been vital to the survival of certain populations, and instrumental

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With CHG’s relaunch comes a host of new and exciting improvements to the site. We're super-excited about them, and hope they provide y'all with a better blog experience. If you have any suggestions for more, we're always happy to hear them. In the meantime, behold!IMPROVEMENT #1 What: A tag cloud!Why: It’s pretty. Takes up less space than the old label list, too.IMPROVEMENT #2What: A Facebook

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EDITOR’S NOTE #1: Hi, sweet readers! We’re back! Thank you for being so patient during our absence. We’ll have a post on site improvements tomorrow. In the meantime, let’s get rolling with a brand spankin’ new recipe, brought to you by the fine folks at Kalyn’s Kitchen. (Meaning: Kalyn.)EDITOR’S NOTE #2: Today on Serious Eats, I wrote of Giada DeLaurentiis’ Spinach and Cannellini Bean Dip.

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Hey everybody! We're officially back Monday the 19th, so keep your eyes peeled.In the meantime, if you have a hankering for inexpensive, healthy food, check out The 25 Best Laughably Cheap Recipes at Casual Kitchen. Just reading it will make you wicked hungry.See you in a few days!

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Readers! Hi there! How have you been? Things are lovely over here. I got to see rhinos fighting a few weeks ago, so that was pretty sweet.Beyond that, there's news! CHG is looking to start up again in another week or two. It should be plenty of time to get some housekeeping done, and juuuust enough time to emotionally recover from tonight's Office. (Yay Pam and Jim! I haven't been this excited

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Readers! Hey there! How are you? I’ve been away for a few days, alternately babysitting and proving myself to be totally florally ignorant. (Remember: life is easy. Wedding flowers are hard.)Beyond that, the last week or so has been chock full of deep, thoughtful, uh … thinking … about CHG. I find myself lacking employment lately, and kind of need to concentrate on the job search for a little

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Penned by the effervescent Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about the wide world of Vegetarianism.Friday, I went to seen an oral surgeon for a consultation. I left the doctor’s office down two wisdom teeth and up a bolt of gauze. Had I suspected this course of events (and been running less late or less concerned with the doctor seeing clean teeth), I would have eaten breakfast.Cut

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Part 2! Behold...Yellow Tomato GazpachoMakes 5 cups soupAdapted from Suzanne Goin’s Sunday Suppers at Lucques2 1/2 pounds ripe yellow tomatoes1 cucumber1/2 jalapeño, seeded and cut in half4 sprigs cilantro, plus 12 cilantro leaves2 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped2 tablespoons red wine vinegar1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil3 tablespoons diced red or orange sweet pepper3 tablespoons diced red

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Before we get into our first two recipes from Wednesday’s Tomato-a-thon, I encourage you to check out this post over at The Onion’s AV Club. It’s all about the writers’ favorite/best celebrity encounters, and the comment section is hilarious. My favorite story is from the hopefully-not-aptly named Poodog:I became enraged at a burrito place in Venice, CA in 2001 when friends began talking about

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Written by the fabulous Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about all things Vegetarian.First things first, Kris, you deserve some big love for your massive tomato undertaking. Kudos, fine lady. You are an inspiration. Also, I’m free most weekends for supper if you need help with that. (Thanks, Leigh! - Kris)Now on with the show...Radishes don’t get a lot of love, confused as they

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By the power vested in me as a random person on the internet, I pronounce Cooking Day ’09 … FINISHED. Yes, I missed Obama’s health care speech. But I profoundly believe that after eating this many tomatoes, I won’t need health care anyway.(KNOCK ON WOOD.)Anyzwayz, the final dish was Suzanne Goin’s Yellow Tomato Gazpacho from Sunday Suppers at Lucques. (Is it pronounced “Goyne” or “Gwah”? I never

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First, thank you, Mike the Commenter. Bon Appetit’s Yellow Tomato Soup was/is outrageously good. It’s the Husband-Elect’s favorite dish thus far today, and I doubled the recipe, meaning we have 12-1/2 cups of the stuff to tide us over the winter. And? AND?!? It used up seven more tomatoes. For that, I throw you a party in my head. (See it? Yay! We’re having so much fun. I think it’s because the

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Folks, this is not my picture. In fact, it’s so far from the picture I took, that if pictures were actors, this picture is Laurence Olivier, and mine is Andie MacDowell. (*shudder*) Night hit here about an hour ago, which means the possibility of me taking a halfway decent photo of food, people, or anything besides big blotches of yellow has dropped precipitously. Thusly, this one is bogarted

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Darkness approaches. Unable – or unwanting - to comprehend the produce massacre it sees before itself, the sun sets over the West, to return anon. El mundo llora. Brooklyn settles, as a lone, perspiring woman drives her scimitar through another juicy, yellow victim. Also, blood.-from Cormac McCarthy’s upcoming novel The Vegetable Butcher (in bookstores, 2025)Woof. It’s been a long day already,

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Okay, we’re in business. Ingredients have been bought, tomatoes are roasting for Sarah’s sauce (recipe in the comment section), and I’m about to embark on Yellow Tomato Soup, as suggested by Mike.But first, a glance at Tomatillo and Yellow Tomato Salsa from Epicurious, which originally appeared in Gourmet in 1994:Pretty, no? Though it still has to sit for awhile, I liked this right out of the

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Ladies and gentlemen, our first dish of the day is a success. I just ate Yellow Tomato Salad with Roasted Red Pepper, Feta and Mint from Kalyn's Kitchen for lunch, and am way impressed. It came together in less than ten minutes, used stuff I had on hand, was a neat twist on Caprese Salad, and never got boring, even though it was essentially a big ol' bowl of tomatoes. Here's a picture:Unh. Yeah.

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Every couple of months, Crystal over at Money Saving Mom does a Baking Day, during which she preps mounds of waffles, muffins, breads, and whatnot. The food is largely healthy and always inexpensive, and the quantities produced are enough to last her family well into 2025 (a.k.a. “Considering Their Farm Team, the Next Time the Mets Have Any Shot at the Pennant Whatsoever”).When I was among the

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Parents! You’re gonna dig the roundup today, as a ton of posts and articles focus on feeding your brood. In tribute, here are the two most adorable things the Husband-Elect and I heard at the Bronx Zoo yesterday:1) SIX-YEAR-OLD BOY: (to his mom) I am deliciously hungry.2) FIVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL: (to a statue of a lemur) Hello, friend.And with that, the links!Boston.com: Early On, Parents Form Habits

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(Sorry for the late post, folks. Um ... I kinda bought my wedding dress today. Squee!)Mary Ostyn has ten children, and has managed to shelter, educate, and feed them all on her husband’s $56,000 salary. She blogs regularly about her experiences at Owlhaven, and on September 1st, she released her second book, Family Feasts for $75 a Week. Last week, I got my hands on a (full disclosure:) free copy

julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10182469094423971534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6351261088125845323.post-33201163145766130582009-09-03T10:18:00.000-07:002012-01-17T19:16:42.763-08:00

Written by the fabulous Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about all things Vegetarian.Moms and dads of the world, I salute you. This past week, I played host, tour guide, and shepherd to my 12-year-old nephew, L (not to be confused with his brothers, 10-year-old L and 7-year-old L). After six days of museums, baseball games, comic book stores, and nonstop kid chatter (Aunt Leigh…

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Last week, we discussed defining the word “healthy” in relation to food, and decided it meant … oh, wait. We didn’t decide anything. As it turns out, a universally acceptable explanation of “healthy” is really hard to pin down.But never fear, because it’s CHG readers to the rescue. Quite a few of you guys chimed in with your ideas on “healthy,” and there were a ton of solid points not mentioned

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Lots of lists and how-tos in this week's links, including Eat Me Daily’s fall cookbook preview, The Kitchn’s guide to $20 group dinners, and a triumvirate of healthy goodness from Chow. Take it away, internets…5 Second Rule: AdvocateInterview with Dr. Susan Rubin, founder of Bettter School Food, which is at the forefront of the Make School Lunches Less Sucky for Kids movement. Informational.

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Oh! Sweet readers, I know it’s enormously self-indulgent to list your LIKES on what’s ostensibly a food blog, but then again, it’s kind of enormously self-indulgent to keep a blog in the first place. And I am nothing if not enormously self-indulgent (also: a lapsed Catholic). So … um … here are some LIKES.LIKE: Tom Waits’ first album, Closing Time. Holy schmoly. The Husband-Elect and I have been

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About four years ago, long before the Husband-Elect and I started sucking face, I went on a series of interweb dates. Overall, it was a good experience. Sure, a few nights out were painful, but most of the guys were relatively harmless - nothing to see a psychiatrist over. (P.S. If a dude answers the question, “What was the biggest lie you ever told?” with “I do,” … run, don’t walk.)However,

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Penned by the effervescent Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about the wide world of Vegetarianism.It’s been a highly politicized year for corn: High-fructose corn syrup wars have been raging, and Food, Inc reminded us that American farmers mostly produce corn that feeds livestock and the agri-industrial complex.But let’s forget all about politics for today. It’s summer; the sun is

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Every Monday, I pen a cooking column over at Serious Eats called Healthy and Delicious. Usually, those meals are produce focused and naturally low-calorie, meaning there’s little hubbub over nutritional value.Here at CHG, we follow pretty much the same model. It says so right in the FAQ: “Nutrition-wise, we concentrate mainly on recipes with lower calories and fat, and often find those dishes

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Amateur Gourmet: Dinner at El Bulli, the Greatest Restaurant in the World30 courses, none of which I’ve ever seen in my life, all presented in awesome comic book form. So neat. (Thanks to Serious Eats for the link.)The American: The Omnivore’s Delusion - Against the Agri-intellectualsAn American farmer fires back against Food Inc., Michael Pollan, and pretty much everybody else who’s like, “the

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Hi everybody! I’m back, and catching up to everything I missed while I was away. Prodigious thanks to both Stan and Leigh, who covered during my absence.While things are a little hectic right now, they should be up to speed soon. In the meantime, I give you Tyler Florence’s Mojo, a lively, tasty Tex-Mex-style marinade for chicken breast and flank steak. Alas, since it’s nearly impossible to

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Written by the fabulous Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about all things Vegetarian.Like most people, I hate to waste food for fiduciary and children-starving-in-Africa-and-right-here-at-home-reasons. So when I improvise in the kitchen, I stick to a few basic tropes:garlic + greens + beans ginger + vegetable + grain lemon + vegetable + pastaThey all = awesome, and the mixing and

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Kris is on vacation. Today's post comes from Stan Laikowski, who sometimes writes or says funny things. He has a brand new blog here: www.bedstan.vox.com. He is always a husband and dad.My young self had big plans for my adult self. I had always seen myself as growing into a jack-of-all-trades, without the “master of none” part. With little effort, and even less time commitment, I was to be a

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Oh, you guys, I love this dish. For real, Pasta with Zucchini and Chickpeas is one of the best, simplest dinners I’ve made in a long time. The zucchini gives it snap, the chickpeas give it heft and fiber, and the pasta … well, pasta is pasta. It’s manna from heaven.The recipe originally comes from Real Simple, and the only change I made was to reduce the olive oil by a tablespoon. The rest was

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Penned by the effervescent Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about the wide world of Vegetarianism.I love stir fry. It’s so fast and easy. And you can make it with whatever you have in your kitchen. I especially love green beans in stir fry. So I’ve been having a fantastic summer.When I make stir fry, I usually just throw in a little onion and garlic, a hunk of ginger, a dollop of

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When it comes to saving cash on food, hard and fast rules are few and far between. Yes, we should bring our lunches to work. Yes, we should buy from ethnic grocers whenever possible. Yes, we should stick to the handful of ideas mentioned in Spend Less, Eat Healthier: The Five Most Important Things You Can Do (now with flavor crystals!). But beyond that, it’s kind of subjective to a person or

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This week, it’s the debt-fat relationship, Joy Fit Club transformations (including a lady who’s dropped over 400 pounds), and polar-opposite profiles of Aunt Sandy and Omnivore’s Dilemma spokesfarmer Joel Salatin. I wonder what those two would talk about with over a beer?Casual Kitchen: A Question of Food QualityDan asks a simple question with a difficult answer: was food better way back when

julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10182469094423971534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6351261088125845323.post-24671862630299617762009-08-09T12:25:00.000-07:002012-01-17T19:16:44.305-08:00

Between last Sunday and Thursday evenings, the Husband-Elect and I ate no meat. None. Not an errant piece of chicken or a single drop of beef broth. Animals remained unsquished by our grinding mandibles, and we didn’t even realize it until Thursday night, when we tucked into Pork Belly Tacos and a plate of Carne Asada for a friend’s birthday party.(Incidentally, if you’re ever feeling down about

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The first full year of my career, I spent approximately 95% of my time researching Jennifer Lopez. I am not kidding. While other people were curing cancer, I was studying the star of Gigli. By age 22, I knew EVERYTHING about J-Lo, from her idol (Rita Moreno) to her high school (Holy Family) to the pronunciation of her first husband’s name (“Oh-HAN-ee NOH-ah”). In a roundabout way, the woman

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Written by the fabulous Leigh, Veggie Might is a regular Thursday feature about all things Vegetarian.Summer squash is not a vegetable that excites me. My experience with winter squash is much more established and deliciously experimental. However, when faced with zucchini, I draw a blank.Perhaps my lack of enthusiasm comes from the perpetuation of the uninspired vegetable plate in New York City

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They control almost everything we eat, yet we do not know who they are. They essentially make agricultural policy, yet we don’t know if they like vegetables. They oversee every aspect of food safety, yet we don’t know where their office is, or if they work out of a Starbucks.They are your parents the FDA and the USDA.I see these agencies mentioned all the time, in almost every newspaper and

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Sweet Don Draper on a stick, it’s a long one today. See what happens when you ditch the interwebs for a week? Big Papi goes on ‘roids and the Megalinks become nigh-unmanageable. (Er … we managed, though.) Today, it’s second thoughts on Sandra Lee, getting a handle on Hungry Girl, and another Meredith post that you kind of wish you could frame.A Year of Crockpotting: Slow Cooking During a

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Hey everybody! We’re back from vacation, and ready to roll out the next two weeks with our usual fun and joie de vivre. (Literally: joy of vivre.) Many, many thanks to Cindee, Michele, Rachel, and Fed, who (whom?) ably and hilariously covered for us while we were gone.In lieu of today’s recipe (which was a bit pre-empted by a long flight back to LaGuardia), I’d like to present “Food Things I

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Kris and Leigh (that’s us) are on vacation this week, so we asked some hilarious friends to pen guest columns for CHG. Today’s post comes from the most excellent Federico.If you are interested in good, healthy food at cheap prices, you've probably at least considered joining a food co-op. It takes more effort than belonging to a CSA, (I think joining a CSA is best only for those with the culinary

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Kris and Leigh (that’s us) are on vacation this week, so we asked some of our most hilarious friends to pen guest columns for CHG. Today’s post comes from occasional contributor and fabulous cook Rachel.For real, now: have you guys seen the August Food & Wine? Because sweet Alice Waters on a soapbox, it's awesome. Deeply, wonderfully, guy-who-founded-Le-Pain-Quotidien-spills-his-guts awesome.With

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Kris and Leigh (that’s us) are on vacation this week, so we asked some of our most hilarious friends to pen guest columns for CHG. Today’s post comes from the talented and wondrous Michele.For the last seven months of my life, I’ve been taking care of a child. To be more specific, I’ve been taking care of my child. The one I carried around for TEN months in my belly, and the one I have wanted

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Kris and Leigh (that’s us) are on vacation this week, so we asked some of our most hilarious friends to pen guest columns for CHG. Today, we’re kicking everything off with the lovely Cindee.Who doesn't love throwing a party? Good friends, good food, good drink. Those few minutes of pure adrenaline right before the first guests arrive...I love it all.I'm currently planning a housewarming party. My

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You guys! Things!1) Both Leigh and I are on vacation next week. Leigh will still be checking comments, and we’ve recruited a few hilarious friends to write guest posts for us. There’ll be at least two entries, and they don’t necessarily adhere to the cheap/healthy/good theme, but they’re super-fun. We’re excited to have them, and are sure you’ll dig them muchly.2) A few weeks ago, I solicited

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Written by the fabulous Leigh, Veggie Might is a regular Thursday feature about all things Vegetarian.Twice now I’ve gone to the farmers’ market and they’ve asked if I want them to remove the greens from the root vegetables I’m about to purchase. “No,” (in a kind of huh?/duh! but more polite tone of voice) I’ve replied. Who would give up perfectly gorgeous turnip, radish, or carrot greens?But the

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The Husband-Elect and I have been really into leafy greens lately, since they’re some of the cheapest and most nutritionally sound vegetables in the supermarket. We were running out of ways to prepare them, so, in the grand tradition of CHG, I made a recipe compilation. (First it was out of felt and glue, but then sending it via the internet just seemed easier.)As always, there were some rules I

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Wow. It’s feast or famine here, folks. After last week’s 24-link funfest, this week only yields 14. Still, they’re pretty great: Lifehacker’s covering coffee, the Kitchn comes through with tips galore, and Newsweek has a provocative article on momblogging’s wavering indie cred. Enjoy!The Atlantic: How a Cruise Ship Feeds 4000 PeopleNeat little travel essay in which the head chef of the QE2 is

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Today, I had every intention of posting on David Lebovitz’s Cherry Jam recipe. Unfortunately, I think I overcooked it a bit, so it came out more like Cherry Swedish Fish. Between that and a busy work week, I ain’t got nothin’.So, instead, here are 40 other recipes I’ve been working on.I’m only half kidding about that, too. See, for the last 11 months, I’ve been writing the Monday morning Healthy

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Hey, remember that song by early-‘80s electro-pop pioneers Devo? It went like this:Crack that whip!Give the stove the slip.Step on a crack.Don’t even look back.When a veggie comes alongYou must grill it!Before it sits too longYou must grill it!When something’s going wrongYou must grill it!Oh, how I loved that song. And it was right, too. You can grill anything. Fish, potatoes, spaghetti – heck,

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Penned by the effervescent Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about the wide world of Vegetarianism.*Editor's Note: This post has been edited to include more helpful links. Please to enjoy!Back in May, you, the Veggie Might/CHG readership, responded to my call for suggestions with some terrific ideas that I will continue to incorporate into posts and recipes. You also asked some

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An estimated 80% to 95% of people who lose a significant amount of weight will gain it back. It sounds high, yes, but I believe it. This is because I’m slowly becoming one of those people.Full disclosure: about four years ago, I dropped 30 pounds to get to a (too) low weight of 132. Between then and now, my scale readout has slowly crept up to about 153 pounds. (Ideally, at 5-foot-9 with fine

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Sweet baby Jane, there are a lot of links today. I’m going easy on the descriptors, because we only have two months left of summer. Nonetheless, I’m sure you’ll enjoy bogus BMIs, Southerners on the hot seat, and more Meryl than you can handle.344 Pounds: 10 Reasons Why Losing Weight is HardGreat piece by Tyler on why dropping poundage is so difficult. What I like is that it could be called “10

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Have you ever seen a recipe, and wanted to make it, but didn’t want it to be very heavy, so you made a few changes, and then when you cooked it, it turned out really different than you thought, but it still tasted good?That happened to me once.Food & Wine had a great-looking recipe for hush puppies in their June issue, and I was itchin’ to try it out. Sadly, like 99.5% of hush puppy recipes, it

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Picture it: Sicily, 1924 Brooklyn, 2009. Friends are converging on our backyard in less than an hour for a Sunday night cookout. In my kitchen are a lone cucumber, four pounds of peppers, a few near-deceased scallions, a tomato bigger than my head, a handful of on-its-way-out parsley, and a cup-and-a-half of dry Israeli couscous, purchased on a whim during my inaugural visit to the Fairway in Red

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Written by the fabulous Leigh, Veggie Might is a regular Thursday feature about all things Vegetarian.There are some unholy colors out there in processed food land thanks to Red #3, Yellow #6, and Blue #2. But there is naturally occurring neon that will light up the dinner table and set off your mineral and vitamin meters.Beets, in all their pink/purple, betacyanin glory, kick cancer’s arse and

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When you’re on holiday with family and friends, there are few worse things than having to leave your luxurious and remote mountain cabin to pick up another pack of hot dogs. Or cooking chili for eight people, only to find out you needed to make it for 16. Or wondering how you blew $400 on food over three days you mostly spent at the beach.Feeding a vacationing group is tough. And if you’re

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This week, it’s coupon burnout, low-cost and no-cost breakfasts, and a stellar article on catering your own nuptials. Oh, summer. You’re neat.Chow: Leaving a Massive Tip – When Should You Leave More Than 20%?I say A) when the service has been outstanding or B) when your sit-down dinner bill comes to less than $15 or $20. I always feel bad leaving less than $4 for an evening waiter.Forkable: Save

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Lettuce talk leafy greens. (Ho ho.)We’re gigantic kale and spinach fans here at CHG headquarters, and chard, romaine, and mustard greens have been known to make semi-frequent appearances. I’m just beginning to experiment with arugula, bok choy, and collards, and am working my way up to endive and watercress. Heck, Leigh even has a recipe for stinging nettles, for which I simultaneously applaud

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Last Sunday, the Husband-Elect and I were traipsing about in our bewitching Brooklyn backyard, sipping white wine and sucking the last bits of farmer’s market turkey sausage off our fingers, when two things struck us just about simultaneously: A) the mosquitoes were definitely coming from our neighbor’s bucket o’ dirty water, and B) we wanted dessert.Which was kind of weird. See, in addition to

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Best. Giveaway. Ever. Thanks to everyone who entered, because the haikus were super-fun to read. Poets, all of you! Alas, we can only have five winners, and here they are, along with their respective masterpieces (as selected by Random.org):#8: EmilyOh, Chicken tikka Masala, British curry yummy masterpiece.#20: Craylcreamy luscious cold churned so gently, smoothly in a cone mine.yum.#47: deb

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You guys! In honor of the upcoming holiday, I have five additional $25 gift cards from Sonic Drive-in Restaurants to pass on to five soon-to-be-filled-with-cherry-limeade readers. Sweet.To enter, all you have to do is leave your name and a haiku about your favorite food in the comment section. For example, mine would be:Oh, macaroni.Your relationship with cheesehath blessed my innards.The drawing

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Penned by the effervescent Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about the wide world of Vegetarianism.In a recent post, Kris suggested screening Food, Inc., and I complied. Eric Schlosser on a sesame seed bun! This movie rocked me to the core. Weeks later and I’m still reeling.I’ve been a vegetarian for almost 20 years, mostly for ethical reasons relating to personal health, the

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Yesterday, as part of CHG’s Sonic Gift Card Giveaway, we asked readers to name their favorite food blogs. 101 dalmations of you lovely people submitted ideas, and suggestions ranged from the timely and sublime Obama Foodorama to awesome and overwhelming favorite The Pioneer Woman Cooks. Needless to say, it was really neat to see so many different culinary angles and points of view. Thank you for

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We have winners from today's Sonic $25 gift card giveaway! Chosen by Random.org, here they are, along with their favorite food blog:#1: AB - $5 Dinners#2: Bashtree – Baking Bites and Gourmet#18: Broman – Closet Cooking#21: Amy – CHG (aw, shucks)#31: Karen – Closet CookingIf you guys can shoot me an e-mail with your addresses (cheaphealthygood@gmail.com), I can get those cards out tomorrow.

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