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I recall living in Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn, and going to the Middle Eastern restaurants on Atlantic Avenue to have chicken bisteeya. It is a marvelous dish, and one I haven’t made at home before. Though it isn’t difficult, it is time consuming and working with filo dough can be challenging. If you’re not familiar […]

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There are three types of kale, ornamental is the stuff you see taking over beds in public places for the duration of fall until spring. The two types we eat are curly; easy to spot by its tight curly edges, and dinosaur kale also know as Lacinato or Tuscan kale, which has dark green bumpy leaves. […]

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Can you really have too many good meatball recipes? I don’t think so, and that’s why I decided to try something new; quinoa meatballs.  The quinoa replaced the breadcrumbs, not the meat. This exchange makes these meatballs suitable for gluten-free, as well as your paleo friends. I made them with a simple tomato sauce and […]

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These are the stuffed chicken thighs I made last night. They were as good as they were easy. I don’t recommend starting them at 7:30 at night for a blog post the following day, but they don’t take long, and I had them in the oven in under an hour. To stuff a chicken thigh you […]

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  It’s March 3rd, and we’re having what I hope will be the last snow day of this winter, as we welcome March! Spring starts in a few weeks, both my daughter and I celebrate birthdays in March, and, as I’ve mentioned before, March will be a month devoted to Chicken, Quinoa and Kale, so […]

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