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Sweet Rose of Thanks

This beautiful rose and a beautiful sentiment by Paolo Coelho are for all of you, Beautiful People, with all my love and best wishes for Thanksgiving! I also have a delicious sweet potato rose to grace your table with love and heartfelt promises. I have been asked to post “something new to do with sweet…

Sweet Rose of Thanks

This beautiful rose and a beautiful sentiment by Paolo Coelho is for all of you, Beautiful People, with all my love and best wishes for Thanksgiving! I also have a delicious sweet potato rose to grace your table with love and heartfelt promises. I have been asked to post “something new to do with sweet…

Anything You Can Get Away With, Including Quinoa and Kale

When Oscar Wilde, at the age of 36, published his one and only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, society was disturbed and the press was outraged. “Unclean”, “poisonous”, and “heavy with the mephitic odours of moral and spiritual putrefaction,” pontificated The Daily Chronicle. In the midst of the strait-laced Victorian age, Wilde calmly responded,…

Fight That Scale With Stuffed Sweet Potatoes!

I am on a mission: my husband has been issued guidelines for a very strict diet that targets very specific weight loss goals. I am now counting every ingredient that could possibly be counted, including lentils in a bowl of soup (if you are curious about my Super Soup, click here), and keeping a Food…

Surprise – Healthy Potato Chips!

I am cheating, Beautiful People, but I have a good reason for it! These truly are healthy sweet potato chips, but they are oven-baked, and my oven went on strike. Hopefully, the situation will be remedied before Passover, with G-d’s help. Meanwhile, as we were making Tropical Salsa (see here) at the recent Lasting Joy…

Sweet Rose of Thanks

Meatless Surprise Wrapped in Mystery

Churchill described Russia’s actions as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Almost fifty years before the brilliant British statesman issued his famous phrase, a Russian artist Sergei Malyutin had a similar idea. Tzar Nicholas II, who ascended the Russian throne in 1894, promoted Russian culture, arts, and crafts. Granted, in a way…

Leonardo Was a Blog-aholic (Sweet Potato and Spinach Bisque)

No, not Leonardo di Caprio; the real Leonardo, born in the little Italian village Vinci, the Renaissance Man. Since Internet did not exist, and neither did the blogosphere, he wrote – a lot, and on a multitude of subjects, including food. Had he thought of inventing it, together with a bicycle and a helicopter, he…

Sweet Rose of Thanks

Flowers are symbolic, and roses are, probably, the most famous of all symbolic flowers. Red roses symbolize love, hope, and promise of new beginnings in most cultures. This beautiful rose and a beautiful sentiment by Paolo Coelho is for all of you, Beautiful People, with all my love and best wishes for Thanksgiving! I also…

Kartofel’niki – Sweet Potato Zrazy with Mushrooms

Of all my historical anecdotes, this one is, probably, the most outrageous. Catherine the Medici, the Dowager Queen of France, mother of a succession of three kings, spared no expense (and no intrigue!) to secure kingdoms for all her boys. When the throne of Poland became available, she bought it for her favorite son, the…

Sweet and Savory Black Bean Patties

In a Russian folk tale, a soldier was walking through a village. Tired and hungry, he knocked on the door of a big handsome house. An old woman answered. “Please! – begged the soldier, – I’ve traveled far and wide, I am tired and hungry, would you give me something to eat?” “This is a…

Sweet Potato Twigs

I had a craving for potatoes. Not just potatoes, but long, thin, crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside, deliciously greasy french fries! But I am too good for my own good – I don’t even have potatoes in the house, to avoid exactly this kind of temptation. I have sweet potatoes, though,…