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Real Food Forever

Category: Vegetarian

Serving bars in a strawberry bowl.

Cereal Bars

I found the Clean Plates Cookbook[1] that I told you about last Tuesday, and slightly modified their recipe for Kitchen Sink Almond Butter Snack Bars. They’re using that name because

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Buttering a piece of soda bread.

Soda Bread

Although I don’t have the slightest fraction of Irish blood in me, Tony has a history of getting Irish soda bread at Radford’s Bakery (long since closed) in Aspen Hill,

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Serving glazed scones on a sailboat plate.

Everything Scones

Here’s a basic recipe for simple, professional-looking scones and you can add any dry ingredients you want to jazz up the flavor. I modified the idea from the March Eating

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Serving cauliflower soup with parsley garnish.

Cauliflower

It’s almost spring! At least close enough to start thinking about getting seeds started for the garden. I was reading the back of a pack of cauliflower seeds at the

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Stack of pancakes covered in berry syrup on eskimo towel.

Fruit Syrup

It only takes a few minutes to make a special syrup that will give your pancakes or waffles an attractive appearance and much improved flavor. After I run out of

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Serving the stuffed shells on depression glass plate.

Stuffed Shells

One time I was in the gourmet foods aisle at Marshalls, or maybe it was Home Goods, and I found a package of naturally colored Italian pasta shells. The pasta

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Serving teriyaki paneer on clear plate over Indian cloth.

Asian Fusion

  One time I bought this really pretty cookbook called Good Food Made Simple Vegetarian.[1] I can’t remember when or where I bought it and never made anything out of

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Scarlet queen turnip cut in quarters.

Root Bean Bake

There was a basket at the farm market full of what looked like giant radishes. Some of them were the size of softballs. The farmer said they were Scarlet Queen

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Platter of banana pancakes.

Sunday Brunch

While I was still asleep this morning, Tony found a couple of recipes on a British website (BBC Good Food) for using up two over-ripe bananas to make pancakes. He

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Striped cabbage cut in thirds and the grater.

Purple Cabbage

One time in college, one of my housemates made the most amazing cabbage soup for us. We were all surprised and raving about it. I guess he was embarrassed because

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