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Creamy Vegan Herb Dip

Nothing can truly replace the taste or mouth-feel of sour cream or cream cheese. We vegans should just honor our memories of dairy dip by improving on it. If you’re too full after the game on TV for a real meal, at least you haven’t messed up as badly, having gorged on the protein and […]

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Hummus Remember This

Hummus is Middle Eastern bean spread. It seems as if every country on the Mediterranean — if not every household or cafe — offers a version. This is a basic and quick, low-fat version, far less expensive than store-bought. A common plan is making a batch at the start of every week, but I don’t […]

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Truly Five-Minute Tomato Sauce*

This sauce comes together so fast, and the starting with a cold pan so crucial, that it is vital all ingredients be ready. Even the can of tomatoes should be opened! While intended as a marinara for pasta, this makes a great sauce for one large or two smaller pizzas. In fact, I no longer […]

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Economical Greek Yogurt, No Way? Whey.

Copyright 2011 Ben S. Pollock Though we who note the news have known about the Greek economic crisis for quite some time, it seems to have come to a head here in the first week of November. Maybe if Greece exported more of that sunny yogurt, the budget would teeter back a bit. But in […]

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You Say Ganouj, I Say Ghanouj

Or baba ganoush or baba ghanoush. Baba ganouj is a first cousin to hummus dip (mashed spicy chickpeas), but with eggplant as the base. For shmearing on pita wedges or vegetable sticks. Mollie Katzen in Still Life With Menu likes it as a pasta sauce. Any kind of eggplant works; the common jumbo globe has […]