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I’ve been craving a nice feijoada for a while and had planned to make it last weekend for some friends. My plans were thwarted by the insane amount of work all week and into the weekend. There was simply no time to search for the right meets, the right amount of black beans, etc. The [...]  In preparation for the week, I decided to cook legumes yesterday (sunday) and boy, did it ever pay off. I got a bag of dry beans from my CSA this past week that included various kinds of beans and I had some chickpeas sitting around that I had been meaning to cook for a while. [...] For a week that I felt singularly uninspired and did not make it to the Wednesday farmers’ market, it proved a good week food-wise. I made my first black bean burger based on this recipe sent by a friend of mine. I changed it slightly by substituting the 4 scallions for one small onion, doubling [...] It all started with a bunch of spinach from the farmers’ market, a red pepper, a recipe from Mark Bittman, and this picture on flickr. I wanted to cook the spinach and browsing Bittman’s book, I came across his recipe for spinach with currants & nuts. I remember seeing spinach cooked this way when I [...] |
 Hi, I'm Alexandra. Born in Brazil, Canadian by choice, and having lived in exciting Barcelona for a year between 2006 and 2007, my earliest childhood memories revolve around food and food is what I remember most about every place I’ve ever lived. After writing a more general blog for the past few years, it was time to organize my writing about food in one place. © All pictures on this blog are taken by me unless otherwise noted. About the title of this blog |
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