Category: sesame

Soba Noodles with a Peanut Sauce and Roasted Butternut Squash

08 October 2010

A couple of years ago, a friend from Zimbabwe mentioned that they love to eat peanut butter and pumpkin there ground together in a sort of mush or puree.  Loving both of those ingredients, I kept the idea of that mixture in my back pocket until this Fall. Peanut butter, while maligned now, was one […]

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Dumplings Part Two: Sesame Spinach Dumplings

09 November 2009

One of my students called these tasty little bites, “ducklings” instead of dumplings the other day. It is easy to see a connection. They are small, cute, and you want to have them around you. Our vegetarian version, made with sesame and spinach, packs in a lot of flavor and vitamins. In general, I hear […]

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O Crackers: An Inauguration Day Snack

20 January 2009

We’ve been looking forward to this day for months (okay, years) now, so we made a very special snack in honor of our new president.  We used this recipe from our friends Alison, Dan, and Meredith over at Alison’s Lunch, changed the recipe a tiny bit to use up what we had on hand, and […]

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