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Heidi Swanson at 101 Cookbooks has a wonderful recipe for caramelized tofu with shredded Brussels sprouts and toasted pecans. (She adds a bit of brown sugar and garlic and it is stupendously good!)

any such name - I have the exact plates, also in a variety of colors (eight, actually), and I also coordinate them with what I'm eating!

I'm sure I had help, because I was 5 or 6 at the time, but my first cooking memory is a tuna noodle casserole from a Disney cookbook my aunt gave me. I remember it turning out fairly edible, but i...

Alice Medrich has a recipe for sour cream ice cream in "Pure Dessert" that uses a similar technique. I had a bit of the same problem with over (or maybe under-) cooking the cornstarch, but the ice...

My grandparents always had Coke in the glass bottles in the fridge, and frequently had homemade vanilla ice cream as well, which are the makings for a killer ice cream float. And Coke really does ...

I love mugs and have had to stop myself from buying new ones - really, one person only needs so many. I have two current favorites: one I got as a premium from an NPR pledge drive; it's a diner-ty...

Fresh cherries - they're around for such a brief time I try to eat them every chance I can get!

I make this way more than I should: kale (or broccoli), chickpeas, tomatoes, and chopped sun-dried tomatoes. (And garlic, of course!) I add vegetable broth and a little tomato paste to flavor it ...

Vanilla yogurt and homemade granola with lots of nuts and dried cranberries. (And, in the interest of full disclosure, three chocolate-covered peanut butter balls that a co-worker brou...

Chai - decaf, so I can drink it before bed!

Black-eyed pea and kale stew with brown rice; very filling and tasty!

Grilled onions, hands-down! (Although portabellas are a close second.)

This is making me hungry...I'd make fresh mozzarella, tomato, and pesto on kalamata and rosemary bread from a fantastic local bakery.

These make me deeply ashamed of my plastic container of ground black pepper...

I only have two Christmas albums: "Ella Wishes You a Swingin' Christmas" and "A Charlie Brown Christmas", and both would sound lovely on a red one!