Tagan's Kitchen

Cocoa Walnut Truffles - A Valentine's Treat

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:37:00 +0000

This is one of those rare recipes that you just can't believe is actually good for you, and it is simple. Walnuts, Dates, Cocoa...end of story. I owe the discovery of this recipe to my mother's...

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Sizzling Rice Soup at Home

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:45:00 +0000

I first had sizzling rice soup when I followed my heart out to the Bay Area, CA the summer after my freshman year of college in the early 90's. On a sunny summer afternoon I was treated to a...

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Favorite Food Spots 2011 - instalment #1 - Saray Turkish Restaurant

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:55:00 +0000

Ok, I know I'm a little late for the look back on food in 2011, but as I scanned through my food photos from this year, there were a few great food spots I visited but never got the chance to share,...

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Latkes and Doughnuts

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:01:00 +0000

The festival of lights and oil is nearly upon us; that once a year time for frying. While I eat a pretty healthy diet and don't generally promote fried foods, I do on occasion fry some platanos, or...

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Cardamom Bread Time

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:28:00 +0000

As xmas draws near, the Jew in me has some sweet envy. While I start thinking about fried potato lakes and jelly doughnuts for the celebration of Hanukkah, the world around me is ablaze in candy...

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Pie on the Brain

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:08:00 +0000

In preparation for Thanksgiving, this past weekend I taught a class called "How to be a Pie Ninja". 30 people showed up and we had a blast sharpening our pie making skills and demystifying the...

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Braised Kale with Tomato

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:18:00 +0000

A few years ago I was shopping at the US 1 Caribbean Market and saw this woman stuffing huge bunches of kale into bags, filling her cart. At the time I had just finished the arduous process of...

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Apple and Cider Crisp

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:44:00 +0000

I created this delicious low sugar apple crisp recipe last fall, and now that the weather has turned cool, I've started to make it again. I can tell it is going to be a staple for the next few...

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Arepas

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:09:00 +0000

While I'd like to say that I discovered these wonderful corn "pancakes" while traveling in Colombia, or at my Venezuelan friend's house, I actually owe my love of them to the streets of New York. I...

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Food Day 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:51:00 +0000

If you haven't heard, the first national Food Day is happening this year Monday, October 24, 2011. When I first caught wind of this earlier this year, I got pretty excited imagining block parties...

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The Best Apple Cake - Again

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:06:00 +0000

It's apple season, and while there are 100 fabulous sweet and savory things to make with apples, I just have to re-post this wonderful apple cake recipe that I discovered last year! It is simple,...

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Feast from the Fields 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:39:00 +0000

What an amazing night. Last weekend I cooked for a fund raising dinner for 250 people at an urban charter high school with an organic farm. Most of the ingredients traveled only a few feet to arrive...

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Roasted Tomato Sauce

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:20:00 +0000

Between the heat of late summer, bugs, and hurricane Irene, my garden has seen better days. While September is prime harvest season on a farm, the offerings from my backyard are meager this year,...

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Live Food

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 03:54:00 +0000

Live Food. If your mind conjured an image of you biting into a live fish, it's tail flapping water in your face, you can relax. When I talk about live food I mean plant based food that has the...

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Tortilla Pizzas and TV

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:37:00 +0000

I've been avoiding it for years, but finally did it, I braved the TV cameras, and did a cooking spot for Television! And you know, it really wasn't so bad, I'm not sure what I was so nervous about....

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Summer Coming to an End

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 02:51:00 +0000

Sorry for my absence over the past few weeks. I was getting some much needed R&R with my family in the woods. We spent a week at the wonderful dance community I wrote about last summer in this...

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Peaches Are Back

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:47:00 +0000

Heaven for me would be an hour or two of fruit picking every day. Just the thought of it makes my heart swell. I can hear the fruit ripening on the trees beyond the city limits. I can almost...

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Pesto, Food Allergies and a Quick Celebratory Meal

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:39:00 +0000

This meal, including dessert, fed two families of four, with 4 food allergies/sensitivities between them (wheat, dairy, eggs, meat); there were plenty of leftovers, and it only took about 35 minutes...

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Grocery Shopping in the Backyard - Garden Update July 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:14:00 +0000

There is almost nothing as satisfying to me as walking out my backdoor and harvesting a weeks worth of produce, at almost no cost. Lettuce, cucumbers, green beans, zucchini, summer raspberries,...

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Simple Summer Ice Cream & It's Healthy!

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:06:00 +0000

I am a bit of a fanatic when it comes to ice cream. I have dreamed of opening an ice cream store for much of the past 7 years but with all the food activism work, parenting and focus on healthy food...

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Mexican Roasted Corn

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:22:00 +0000

I have never lived in Mexico, much to my dismay, but I have lived in Brooklyn, where Mexican, and Latin American cooking is alive and well. My first taste of this fabulous culinary creation was 7...

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A Farm Grows in New Haven

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:00:00 +0000

5 hours, 2 vacant lots, 70 volunteers, 4 wheelbarrows, dozens of shovels and rakes, tray upon tray of seedlings, a ton of passion for bringing fresh food to people who otherwise wouldn't have it, and...

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Summer Drinks - Installment II

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:14:00 +0000

This wonderful and unusual recipe has it's origins in a trashy romance novel. Yes, I know it's shocking to think that I would read such things, but on occasion I have been known to peruse the pages...

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Strawberry Jams - The Best I've Ever Had

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This late night experiment in Strawberry Jam making was thrilling, exhausting, and luckily successful! Thank god, because if I had wasted 6 pounds of gorgeous fresh picked berries, on some gloppy...

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Garlic Lime Skewers and Shrimp Tacos

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:15:00 +0000

Recently, any food on a skewer seems to be quite appealing. Summer is taking root: carnivals are popping up on the weekends and the smell of (other people's) backyard BBQs are wafting down the...

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