Author: Holly Figueroa O’Reilly

• Cinnamon Apple Stuffed Pumpkin

  My dad came over for dinner tonight, but he refused to let me take photos. I have a couple of photos I took surreptitiously, but I won’t post them unless he gives the go ahead. Sorry family back home in Ohio. Take it up with the man.

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  October 6, 2013

• Vegan Split Pea Soup

  My dad is coming over tonight to cook with me again! Yeah! I’ll remember to post photos this time. I whipped up some split pea soup for lunch. I love that split peas don’t need to be soaked before you cook them, so this recipe takes very little time. You can either cut your vegetables…

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  October 5, 2013

• Growing Ginger in Seattle

  This is the first year that I tried growing ginger in Seattle. I’m kind of a ginger fiend, and I have become a bit of an urban gardening weirdo, so growing ginger just made sense. I don’t like to grow anything expensive that I could kill, and I don’t like to do much more than…

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  October 5, 2013

• Gluten Free Vegan Ginger Snaps

  No eggs, no dairy, no wheat, no soy, no refined sugar…what IS in them? This is my first time cooking with almond meal (also called almond flour.) I have seen all of these flours and thought…whatever. If it’s gluten free, what’s the difference between almond flour and my go to, rice flour? It’s like the…

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  October 4, 2013

• Khoresh-e Loobia Sabz (Persian Green Bean Stew with Chicken)

  After last night’s tahdig fail, I thought I’d try to redeem myself with another Persian dish that I’ve actually made before. I copied this recipe from Turmeric and Saffron, which is really the definitive Persian recipe blog. Beautiful photos, great recipes. I tweaked a couple of things, but it’s essentially the same recipe.

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  October 4, 2013

• White Girl Fail: Attempt at Tahdig

  I really love cooking Persian food. Darius’ father is from Iran, so I was introduced to lots of different kinds of foods I had never heard of when we met. There is one dish I haven’t tried, because it seemed way too difficult. Here’s what Tah Dig is supposed to look like: Here’s what my…

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  October 2, 2013

• Oven Roasted Spicy Chickpeas

  Here’s whats left of the roasted chickpeas that I just took out of the oven. I would highly recommend doubling this recipe if you have more than one person in your household. Even then…

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  October 2, 2013

• Spicy Baked Potato Chips

  I love salt. It seems like every time I put a meal on the table, I say, “It might need salt.”, and pretty much every time I take a first bite of anything, I say, “This needs salt.” Most of the recipes I post here say “salt and pepper to taste”, because if I told…

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  October 2, 2013

• Carob Coconut Cupcakes (Gluten and Dairy free)

  In a drug fueled haze in the middle of the night a couple of years ago, I bought this cupcake maker.

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  October 1, 2013

• Ginger Curry Vegan (or chicken!) Chickpea Slow Cooker Stew with Quinoa and Sprouted Rice

  This curry is so good for you. Fresh ginger and garlic and onions and magic spices… Great for when everyone in the house (but me! so far.) has a head cold. Also good when November comes 2 months early to Seattle. I usually make this without chicken, but I roasted a chicken last night, and…

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  September 30, 2013