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Mushroom and rapini risotto with walnuts and anise seeds

This recipe is adapted from Lucas Hollweg’s Spaghetti with Mushrooms and Fennel Seeds, which I made a couple days ago. I didn’t have fennel seeds, so I used anise seeds instead and the result exceeded my expectations. Tonight I tried it on risotto. Ingredients: 1 1/2 cup short grain brown rice, boiled for about 12 [...]

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Mushroom, kale, and walnut brown rice rottini

For this week’s meatless monday, I made a quick weeknight pasta dish. I had a box of brown rice rottini lying about. Alas, there’s no tomato sauce. But who needs tomato sauce with some nice Tuscan kale and some mushrooms lying around? So I sliced the mushrooms, cooked in olive oil. When they were almost [...]

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Kabocha Squash Risotto with Chanterelles

The beauty of shopping at 4 Life is that produce change from week to week. This week the store was bursting with colourfull fall produce but the first thing to catch my eyes was the small box of fresh wild chanterelles sitting by the cash. I quickly snatched a few and began dreaming of what [...]

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Special dinner

I was so inspired by my husband’s gift that I had to make something quick but special tonight. Out came millet with cranberries and walnuts, accompanied by mushrooms stir-fried in garlic and butter and a salad made with spinach, blood orange, thinly sliced carrots, fennel, celery, radish, and seasoned with a lemon & olive oil [...]

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Mushroom walnut risotto

I was feeling overwhelmed by work this evening and not at all inspired to cook. Since I haven’t made rice for a while, my immediate thought was to make a simple risotto. Alas, I had neither butter nor parmesan cheese but I decided to go ahead with it anyway. I did find some gruyère cheese [...]

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