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Archive for the ‘Vegetables’ Category

Saag Paneer (or Kale Haloumi)

Posted by: AM on: February 24, 2009

I only made saag paneer for the first time a few weeks ago, but this recipe has already made it into the rotation. Of course, it doesn’t taste the same as it does in restaurants, but that’s for the same reason everything tastes different in restaurants: they put pounds of butter in your food. In [...]

Polish Lessons: Pierogi

Posted by: AM on: August 2, 2008

I once spent a month in Poland, teaching english to local teenagers. I stayed in a tiny town called Swidnica (near Wroclaw – or Breslau, as our German friends still tend to call it). I have fond memories of Krakow, and even Warsaw, where a student lived in one of an array of hundreds of [...]

Sweetcorn Fritters

Posted by: AM on: May 17, 2008

A time of austerity is upon us. Food supplies are stretched. Prices are rising. It’s not quite like those old pictures of Germany in 1946, with Truemmerfrauen hacking meat from dead horses in the street. But I think a lot of people, instead of spending fifteen pounds on a plate of pasta and a salad [...]