If you showed up today expecting recipe number two from Italian Week, I apologize. It was supposed to be pasta e fagioli (pasta and bean soup), but I totally botched it! Remember how I said I used to be known for one kitchen disaster with every meal? Last night's disaster was forgetting that pasta e ...
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Just the (Nutrition) Facts, Ma'am
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Welcome to Italian Week, No Meat Athlete style! Or Italian Half-Week, since it's already Wednesday. For those who don't know, a muffaletta is an Italian-style sandwich from New Orleans. Until I saw it on Throwdown with Bobby Flay, I had ...
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I know-- a lot of people are afraid of mustardy anything. I can understand how you might not like straight-up mustard, but once it's whisked with white wine and boiled, it forms a nice sauce to coat the pasta and really doesn't ...
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I've been thinking pretty hard in the last few days about giving up fish, about whether I should become a "real" vegetarian. After all, the blog is called No Meat Athlete. I suppose I could justify my fish-eating by saying that "no meat" is an ideal ...
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Ok, so they're not technically No Meat Athletes yet, but strictly speaking, neither am I! Unless you define "meat" in the fish-excluding Catholic sense, and I don't think too many of us still define it that way. I just wanted to write a ...
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Finally! I've been looking forward to this day ever since that mistress tempeh won me over with her meatlike texture. Her soy sister tofu made a crispy deep-fried appeal to win back the love of my taste buds ...
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Time for another Twitter-submitted recipe, this one from @reluctantveggie. She runs a blog called The Reluctant Vegetarian, something that I imagine a lot of you are (or, more likely, whoever you live with is). So check it out for lots of recipes from someone in the same boat!
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Buenos dias! I went to Spain four times during high school, living with Spanish families for a month each time as part of an exchange program. At the time I was more interested in drinking Cuarenta y Tres con naranja than sampling the fine
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My blog is getting a lot of traffic from people looking for Boston Marathon qualifying information, with searches like "How fast do I have to run to qualify for Boston Marathon" and "Boston Marathon training plan." They are landing on my previous ...
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Finally, the one I've been hyping up all week! And the hype must have worked, since at least one person I know soaked her black beans last night in anticipation of this recipe's posting, only to lose her (pirated) internet connection shortly thereafter. Looks like someone will be eating black bean burgers again, unless I'm ...
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