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I am a Mexican food FREAK. I’d say realistically, about 60% of everything I eat has chili powder and cumin (and cayenne if I don’t feel like feeding my child that day). I spent a good bit of time last weekend making corn tortillas, my Mexican aunt’s authentic enchilada sauce and slow-cooked beans for the [...]

I got a head of cabbage in my CSA box the other week, and began scouring the internet for recipes. I had no idea what to do with it. I came across the following recipe, thought it sounded a little boring… but made it anyway. It was excellent! My 4 year old even ate it [...]

Make this with my previous aloo phujia recipe and it’s an amazing easy indian-inspired vegan dinner that makes even better leftovers. Coconut milk is very fatty, I’ve tried the lite coconut milk and it’s just as good. I even subbed half almond milk when I was low on coconut milk, still good but not quite [...]

This is my favorite recipe to make right now, I make it once a week along with coconut curry beans (recipe coming soon – also vegan). It’s SO GOOD. I usually use whatever tomato based item I have… I’ve used fresh tomatoes, canned diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, and even leftover chili. You don’t need much. [...]

I found a recipe for these on allrecipes.com today and modified a bit to include yellow squash and mushrooms. My 4 year old ate two of them…and they were pretty big. They’d make a great vegetarian version of chicken parmesan. Mushrooms give it a meaty feel, but use whatever produce you have. I’m glad I [...]

(Chilaquiles con huevos on the right, but that’s a whole other blog post.) I put this on over my lunch break and come home 5 hours later to an amazing smelling house. I prefer making them from scratch because it is a LOT cheaper for the amount it makes. A bag of pintos is 70 [...]

After spending massive amounts of money at Dunkin Donuts everyday on my medium caramel lattes ($3.17, sometimes twice a day), my beau showed up at my house with an espresso machine – best gift ever. It took about a week or so but as of tonight, I have the process and recipe down. Starbucks espresso [...]

Somehow I forgot this one even though it’s one of my favorites. Made last October for a cousin’s birthday with my old hunk of junk sewing machine. It would have been a lot easier with my Janome. One of these days I’ll make myself one instead of the broken Target cheapie I am currently using. [...]

This wasn’t too difficult to do, but since I decided to wait until the last minute, pressure caused many mess ups. Yeah, that’s what I’m blaming for about 3 seams I had to rip out. The bag turned out pretty good, if I made another, I would add more interfacing… it’s a bit too floppy. [...]

So easy to make and ridiculously cheap with clearance fabrics. I ordered a bunch of elastic thread, which just goes in the bobbin, sewed a few lines up top, finished the edges with an overseam stitch. Done! I’m posting this on my phone… we’ll see how it turns out. Can’t believe it took me this [...]