Vegan potstickers

March 23, 2009 at 1:00 am | Tags: , , , ,

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There are lots of gorgeous recipes for potstickers online. The problem? Most are filled with pork, or shrimp, or a combination thereof. There’ll be none of that here. I was inspired to make these dumplings after viewing some beautiful potsticker photos, and was inspired to create some fillings based on the wonderful assortment of vegetables in our fridge.

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I filled half with a mushroom-ginger filling, and the other half with a garlicky mix of greens and bean sprouts. Quite good indeed. Continue reading Vegan potstickers…

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Latke bonanza

December 23, 2008 at 2:30 am | Tags: , , , , , , ,

I could never really get that excited about latkes, which I’d mostly experienced as patties of fried mashed potatoes. After all, I wouldn’t eat oily, soggy potatoes on other days of the year, so what made Hanukkah any different? But this year, I decided it didn’t have to be like that. Why not make latkes with other vegetables, seasoned like I season most anything else that comes out of my kitchen?

So I brainstormed a list of interesting taste combinations. In the end, I was limited by the amount of latkes we could possibly expect to make (and eat) in one night, and managed to make only four of the ideas I’d thought up: mushroom ginger latkes, pear sage latkes, eggplant shallot latkes and zucchini dill latkes. Continue reading Latke bonanza…

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Green curry

November 21, 2008 at 10:36 pm | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

This is my favorite kind of Thai curry. Luckily, it’s not too complicated — most of the taste comes from the basil-rich green curry paste. You can think of it as a kind of Thai pesto — in Thailand they pound the spices together by hand, but here you can just buy the curry paste ready-made, in a jar.

And since I’m no longer in Thailand, I had to adapt the dish to the vegetables available locally (bottom right photo). Continue reading Green curry…

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