Arlychoke – Page 3 – Delicious & healthy food, recipes and lifestyle musings.

- Dinner
- Soups
Two-for-one cooking: Tarragon Chicken and Chicken, Wild Rice and Mushroom Soup

January 28, 2021
As it gets colder and we get more cozy in winter, our tastes change. I turn away from all the salads and start to crave deep flavored and warm foods. Things that cook in the oven for hours and bubble away on the stove – filling my house with
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- Salads
Brussels Sprout, Bacon, Brown Rice Salad with a Pomegranate and Maple Dressing

January 15, 2021
We are all there: new year, new you. New everything please! Here is my offering to the cause. This kind of salad makes us giddy. So delicious and yet so full of good things! Roasting vegetables brings them to another level. Nuttiness and sweetness is brought forward during the process and there is the added benefit of greater
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- Appetizers
- Entertaining
The Somewhat Swedish Meatballs (or, How to Win the Holiday Potluck)

December 30, 2020
*Note: This festive little piece was written in 2019 – when we could go to parties. So instead, add some buttery dill noodles and a beet salad and it makes cozy winter supper. Oh it’s the holiday season! Gatherings, one after another, where friends and relatives get together and get their “ho, ho, ho’s” on, and I am
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- Pastas
My Best Recipe: Wild Mushroom Orzo

December 2, 2020
I should not even be sharing this recipe with you. It is one of my greatest hits. But, we are good friends, so this is my gift to you. Trust me, there’s gonna be ‘oohs’ and ‘ahhs.’ I love this pasta for dinner parties. It is a super side dish, and a really great main for the vegetarians. It’s like risotto, but not as fussy, and
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- Soups
“Oh, Just Hurry Up Fall!” Chile Verde

October 22, 2020
There is so much already written, much more poetic and inspiring than anything I can write. “Hark, the changing golden yellow light, the long shadows falling across childhood sentiments of pumpkin patches and the crisp mornings. And nostalgic incense of burning leaves and spiced cider.” And on it goes… I go berserk in the
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- Salads
Shrimp, Farro and Asparagus Salad with Dill Mustard Vinaigrette

October 8, 2020
After a glorious couple months of shelter-in-place family time, I looked up from the bottom of the pan containing the last of the tahini brownies and caught my refection in the window over the sink. Wild hair, chocolate smeared fingers. Ugh. Too much “comfort.” I need some feel-good food now. My farm box has
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- Bowls
My Tuesday ‘Almost’ Larb Family Meal

September 4, 2020
I love the flavors of Thai, Vietnamese and Laotian food. I also don’t have any of those style of restaurants conveniently nearby. I cobbled this together for quick and easy summer suppers when I had a craving for those flavor palettes – sweet, sour, spicy and salty. Larb is a Thai dish. It’s a flavorful and tart
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- Sauces
Feeling Saucy! Green Harissa Sauce

August 2, 2020
Summer is in full swing and my blender is getting all the action. Smoothies and salad dressing – but also some of my favorite sauces. I like to blend up a sauce, keep it in the fridge, and put it on everything. My favorites are herby sauces, like chimichurri, cilantro jalapeno pesto, zippy salsa verdé (Nigel Slater’s is my
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- Salads
Smokey Spanish Potato Salad With Lemony Saffron Aioli

July 15, 2020
We became obsessed with Spanish flavor notes the past few weeks, and this was my absolute favorite. This salad is colorful and smoky. The ingredients list reads like a tapas bar menu. And if you really need some greens, dress some up with a squeeze of lemon and olive oil and serve the potato salad on top. This can be served hot or
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- Other
Butter You Up!

July 8, 2020
Just like everyone out there, my family gets busy too. A deadline looms, we over schedule ourselves, one of us has something “pop up”, and boom, just like that, we are over extended and it is hard to get a nice dinner on the table. Takeout is nice, but when we have it to often, I don’t feel as good, nor does my waistline or my
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