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@Maureen.milwaukee: Wacky Cake! Love it, my school served this every Friday along with fish sticks...thanks for the memories!!! Would love the recipe...this cake was made with cocoa powder and lots of oil, right?

Many of these dishes can be made with "fake" chicken. My husband and I reserve meat eating for restaurants, travel, occasional barbeques, and dinner at friends' houses. While we primarily cook with tofu, tempeh and beans, we do use "fake" meat occasionally. Many of these dishes can be cooked with "fake" chicken, and I think the Thai green curry with fake chicken will be perfect for dinner tomorrow night. Thanks so much for the recipe ideas!

I love this post. Cook once, eat twice (or even thrice!) is the motto around my house. Being mostly vegetarian is a big help, since my husband and i prepare lots of beany, stewy, pasta-y dishes that beg to be doubled and halved for freezing. Thanks for the great recipes!

@SFGAIL-- my favorite quinoa preparation is this: thinly slice and carmelize an onion in a medium skillet. Add 1 cup quinoa and cook on medium until it starts to toast and pop. Add 2 cups water, 1 tablespoon curry powder and a pinch of sea salt and pepper. Bring to boil, cover and simmer 15 minutes, turn off heat and let sit for 5 minutes. It is so easy and so tasty-- not overpoweringly curry flavored and the carmelized onion adds depth and richness. It makes a great base for kale sauteed with garlic and chopped tomatoes. Add a drizzle of ltruffle oil to the kale at the end and serve the kale on the quinoa with a spoonful of plain yogurt on top. Delish!!!

My husband and I moved from a house in San Francisco, where we hosted Thanksgiving dinners for 22, to an apartment in SAn Diego, where the "dining room" is actually 1/3 of our small living room. The kitchen in this apartment is literally a box--i can sit on the floor with my back against the refrigerator and my toes touching the cabinet below the sink. Tiny! But, all for the sake of saving money to buy a house, we have embraced this small apartment and I found I love my tiny kitchen. I can reach everything i need in less than three steps, and I (thankfully) have lots of drawers and cabinets. After the pre-move purge, I had to make choices about what to store and what to stock in the kitchen. So the turkey roaster, the extra-large serving bowls, the two 12-place china sets and all of the other special-event items went into easy-to-reach snap top containers in the garage. I appreciate the challenge and the joy of having the essentials at hand and I feel I'm a more efficient cook now.

I am a firm believer in "quiet time". I religiously wake up an hour earlier than my (awesome) husband so i can read, do little chores, cuddle with the cat, or generally putter around. It really is the only hour of the day that is devoid of conversation, media,
and obligation. Without my quiet time i think i'd be in a straight jacket!

First, my feeling is that EVERY guac recipe is fantastic! Second, my recipe (the best, in my opinion of course) consists of the following: avocados, lime, garlic, cumin, roasted poblanos (not canned) cilantro and salt. Amounts vary according to my mood. Mash with a fork. Cumin is a key ingredient i would never omit from the guac. It contributes a wonderful warm note to the brighter flavors of the fresh ingredients. Try it and enjoy!

My go-to method: Cut a lemon in half, rub one half over the skin
then throw both halves in the bird with fresh thyme. Oil up the skin with a dab of olive oil and sprinkle with pepper. Throw in the oven on 400 degrees for an hour or less, until crispy skinned and brown on the outside, tender and very juicy on the inside. Really. And so yummy!

I do what i call " speed trials". Two minutes of electric toothbrushing = 2 minutes of wiping down bathroom counters and getting hair off the bathroom floor. 90 seconds of heating milk in the microwave for my morning " latte" = 90 seconds of wiping down whatever needs it in the kitchen. I could go on and on, the possibilities are (almost) endless. Multitasking rules!

The link titled "see more "How To" posts" is broken...please fix this so I can get my "How To" fix....thanks!