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Food and WineWhen I was little, I thought I could pass for white. If you know me, you know this is hilarious—because I look just like my mom, who is 100% Korean. (My dad, by the way, is a very warm, funny white guy.) Growing up in small towns in Mississippi in the 1970s, I just wanted to believe I was like most of my other friends: decidedly all-American. I would commit lies of omission all the time, neglecting to share that I had an Asian mom who often perfumed our house with the funky smells of kimchi, dried anchovies, and simmering seaweed soups. Instead, I boasted of her chicken-fried steak and gravy.But that all changed in middle school, when, at a sleepover I hosted, I gained the confidence to share my mom’s japchae with my friends. This dish—a classic Korean recipe featuring slippery glass noodles tossed with meat and vegetables—was my absolute favorite growing up (still is!). I always loved the chewy texture of the noodles, the interplay of nutty sesame oil and savory soy sauce, the hint of sweetness, and the garlicky wilted spinach. My mom had made a large batch, and there were leftovers in the fridge. They weren’t intended for my sleepover friends, because of course I didn’t want to serve them Korean food. But then I did. In the middle of the night, between movies and fueled by a mean case of the munchies, I gathered up the courage to introduce my friends to japchae.“Eww, that looks like worms,” one friend said upon the unveiling. Deep breath, Ann, you know this is damn good food. After some gentle coaxing, once the intoxicating aromas of sesame and garlic registered with the hungry girls, one of them took a bite, and then another. They loved it! Even cold straight from the fridge! We took turns pinching a clump of noodles between our fingers, leaning our heads way back for dramatic effect, and then dropping the deliciousness in. We gobbled up every single bit.That was a turning point for me. Little by little, I began to embrace the Korean side of my identity, mostly through food—because food, for so many of us, is an immediate gateway to our culture. I often cook Korean dishes for my family so that my children, now in their early teens, can feel some connection to their Korean roots. And you know what? Japchae is their favorite. When we eat it, I tell them how my mom used to make it for me when I was a kid. I tell them about how, when I went to Korea and made japchae in a cooking class, the instructor told me that it’s important to honor each element with its own seasoning and cooking method, to fully bring out its best and to preserve its color. I tell them that the dish was once considered royal cuisine but has now become more commonplace. In this way, food serves as a means for us to connect to our deeper heritage, helping us understand the depths of who we are. And for me, I know more now than ever who I am—not fully white, not fully Asian, but something beautifully in between.Food.comWhat a great way to have a picnic! You can eat the basket and not have to carry it back to the car! With this ever-so-easy recipe, you bake your basket - and then you eat it! Fill with chicken and carry to your next picnic! You could also use this recipe to create edible soup bowls, if you divide dough into four parts.YummlyNo one will miss the dairy in these filling and flavorful stuffed mushrooms! It's a crowd-pleasing appetizer for any occasion, and can be easily turned into a vegan recipe with a few tweaks! The recipe is a Yummly original created by [Sara Mellas](https://www.yummly.com/dish/author/Sara%20Mellas). ## Party Platter Stuffed mushrooms are an ideal finger food for any event or gathering. Whether you’re hosting a cocktail party or serving Christmas dinner, stuffed mushrooms are a perfect appetizer recipe to keep on hand for the big day. Who doesn't love comfort food in bite-sized servings? If you and your guests love mushrooms, don't skip this one. They take a little over half an hour to assemble and cook, or you can prep the mushrooms and filling in advance to save yourself some time. While they make for great, shareable appetizers, you can easily serve these as a side dish or even as a main dish for a weeknight dinner at home. Add a big salad or soup and you're good to go! Let's take a look at what makes these stuffed mushrooms so great with a few helpful recipe notes. ## Vegan-Friendly With A Few Simple Steps A few quick substitutes, and you'll have yourself a dairy-free and vegan recipe! Use vegan mayonnaise and a flax egg instead of regular mayonnaise and an egg. Many stuffed mushroom recipes call for cheese, but this recipe doesn’t use any. You can add vegan parmesan cheese or nutritional yeast for a vegan-friendly cheese flavor in the filling, and for a crunchy finish, you can sprinkle a little extra over the tops of the mushrooms before baking. ## How To Make A Flax Egg Since many recipes call for eggs, it's helpful to have an alternative if you're looking to eat vegan. To make a flax egg, stir together 2 1/2 tbsp. of water with 1 tbsp. of flaxseed meal in a small bowl. Let the mixture rest for 5 minutes so it can thicken. Once thickened, use it in recipes in place of 1 egg. ## Special ingredients For this recipe, you'll use classic Italian flavors and vegan staples to complete the dish! _Mushrooms:_ this recipe calls for cremini mushrooms, but you can use white button mushrooms or baby bella mushrooms instead. _Bread:_ a day-old baguette works best in order to make your bread stuffing. _Dried herbs and spices:_ a combination of dried parsley, thyme, garlic powder, salt, and black pepper. _Mayonnaise:_ be sure to use a vegan option instead of regular mayonnaise if you are looking to keep this recipe vegan-friendly. _Egg:_ vegans can opt to use a flax egg (see instructions above) instead _Dijon mustard:_ Dijon adds a touch of sharpness to round out the recipe and gives it a hint of spice. ## Preparing Mushrooms To get the mushrooms ready to use, brush each one dry with a soft brush, or use a damp paper towel if they are extra dirty. Don't soak them, as they'll absorb the water and get soggy. Remove the mushroom stems by gently twisting them off, and don't worry if a piece gets stuck inside the mushroom cap as you can cut it out. If you'd like, you can save the stems and use them to make veggie stock or gravy! ## Going Gluten-Free If you want to make this recipe gluten-free, feel free to swap the standard baguette for gluten-free bread. Just be sure whatever type you use it's day-old and dried out. This helps the filling absorb the maximum amount of flavor.Food52I've been practicing yoga regularly for about 15 years, and a few years ago, one of my teachers got involved in cleansing for the new year. For a week you drink water with lemon, cayenne and clove, make fresh juice, and eat from a specific list of fruits and vegetables, grains (quinoa and millet only), and nuts (almonds and walnuts only)--all while taking herbs that are supposed to cleanse your body of toxins. I fell for it. Caffeine withdrawal, hunger, drinking vile liquids while my husband is having a glass of wine and laughing at me. (And since you can only have the grains and nuts for the first two days and the last day, I was hungry. Really hungry.) While everyone in my yoga classes who "cleansed" at the same time were rhapsodizing about their clear skin, their weight loss, their feeling light and free, I was miserable. The day it ended (I am not a quitter!), I met two friends for lunch at my favorite Greek restaurant and proceeded to devour everything on the menu. Still, after 6 weeks of indulgent eating and drinking, it's nice to start the new year with food that's light, healthy and delicious. Like most of my recipes, this one is not bossy. I'll tell you what I did; you can adjust it to your taste. For example, I used chicken stock. Vegetarians can use vegetable stock, but try to avoid those that are really tomato-y or it will overpower the taste of the mushrooms. I used red wine--you can leave it out, change it to sherry or white wine. I used thyme; maybe you'd prefer a bay leaf or two. I chopped up some parsley--feel free to add any greens you like.Food52I bought a pasta machine as a post breakup gift to myself last summer and that moment really is what started family dinner. Since that first pasta night we have done five or six and without fail, no matter when I make the dough or how early I begin shape the pasta, we will not eat before 11pm. I mostly make traditionally Italian if not more specifically Roman pasta dishes that I picked up while living in Rome in 2012: Bucatini all’Amatriciana, Ragu, Carbonara, occasionally delving into Umbrian Penne alla Norcina. I am fully a snob when it comes to pasta, and this leads us to the true hypocrisy of this post: I made meatballs. Quick recap on the meatball: Italians only serve them by themselves if they’re large, and when they’re small they usually go in soup. When the Italians immigrated to America at the turn of the 20th century they were actually spending less of their income on food then they were in Italy and thus eating more meat and the meatball “snowballed” for lack of a better word. I found a recipe for tiny meatballs last week that had tons of herbs and ricotta AND I could make them the day before dinner, so we put all prior rules and feelings about American meatballs in the bathroom. So these meatballs are a combination of a couple recipes that have all clearly been based off of Marcella Hazan’s recipe from her book Marcella’s Italian Kitchen. The last time I tried to make pasta sauce Ian yelled at me. It was arguably bad pasta sauce. Bad in the sense that it was fully edible and had anyone but me served it we all would have been more than happy, but it was bland, there was much too much sauce in relation to the amount of meat, the flavors didn’t combine right, it didn’t cook long enough, and we all have come to expect more from me. I was not going to let that happen again so I went back to my recipe hunting for making the perfect marinara sauce. Sourcing back to Marcella Hazan she claims that whole peeled tomatoes, a stick of butter, salt, and an onion, and those four things alone make the perfect sauce. Besides the fact that she’s a best-selling James Beard Award-winning food writer, her meatballs came out really good and I figured i’d give it a shot with my own tweaks. Makes 12-14 servings of sauce. Unless you’re feeding a small army or my friends that have apparently never eaten before, halve recipe or plan on freezing some of it.Food52This galette is wonderful for an appetizer or as a side dish with a hot bowl of soup on a chilly day. It is similar to a quiche in texture but has a rich buttery crust to showcase the filling. My favorite vegetables are zucchini, sweet potato and Florida sweet onions. Here in Florida, we have several varieties of these vegetables that vary at different times of the year. Florida sweet onions are sold with the green tops and are the best tasting onions as they are so very sweet to eat. I just love to see what's fresh and new at the local Farmer's Market and explore and create new recipes in my home kitchen. Here are a few of my COOKS TIPS for this recipe: The food processor is your best friend for this recipe! Use the food processor to coarsely SHRED the zucchini. Cut the top and bottom off. Slice into 2 long pieces. Use a teaspoon the remove the seeds. Feed into the processor the long way. Drain on a paper towel until ready to use in the filling. For the sweet potato, remove the skin with a vegetable peeler. Cut into 4 long pieces and feed into the processor to SHRED. Blot dry with a paper towel before using in the filling. For the sweet onion, peel the top and bottom and cut into quarters. Feed into the processor and SLICE thin. If using a Florida sweet onion, by hand slice the light green tops nearest to onion bulb into 1/4" pieces.Food52This recipe came about exactly 33 years ago--my husband was involved in opening a restaurant in Manchester, VT and was asked if I would be willing to submit a recipe for the menu. Soupe a l'oignon was suggested so I just set about doing something different--eliminated the crouton and Gruyere, replaced the beef broth with chicken and then decided that cream (yes, heavy cream) would be the rich and silky way to go! The recipe below is what was on the menu at "Cobblestones" but nowadays I tend to use light cream or even half & half. It's not quite as luscious but we always seem to finish it with no trouble! The grated cheese is optional and we tend to "eat" this soup with a good, crusty baguette, green salad, a triple creme cheese and some red grapes...and, of course, a nice crisp white wine!Food52I have to confess when I was a girl the only recipes that really interested me were desserts! So I did pay very close attention to what my Hungarian grandmother was doing with all of those. I learned how to make her apricot cookies and the ones with the ground walnut and raisin filling in the yeast pastry, glazed with egg yoke.....but when it came time for dumplings, I did not watch closely enough. And Gram had the most amazing repertoire of dumplings to offer, not to mention her homemade perfect noodles! It may take me the rest of my life to recreate some of these, but I am going to try. So to start here is my effort with her liver dumplings. I will just describe how she taught me to make soup as well here. Basically, what you do is save every scrap of your basic vegetables and collect all the bones from your cooking to simmer to a broth. Save every peel from a potato, every top from a carrot, every skin from an onion, and every leaf from celery, and so on. Gram also taught me to make friends with the butcher: Ask for bones for soup to add to your own collection of bones! A ham bone will add music to your chicken and beef broth, which typically become one blended broth. Nothing was ever specified or measured, but each and every time Gram's soup was phenomenal! So just chuck all your veggie wastes in a pot with all your bones and lots of filtered water with sprigs of several fresh herbs and simmer away. Then after 6-10 hours, scrunch up the veggies, "wring" them into the broth, and discard. Throw away the bones and strain the broth so you have a clear, perfect broth.You really can't go too far wrong: Don't use broccoli though without specific intention. The main measure of your effectiveness: that the soup will turn to a gel in the fridge overnight. Then you know you have done well. This is a recipe about liver dumplings for a soup, well within the meatball family. There is no other way I can even stand to eat liver! I think all meatball recipes are about family somehow or other. This is a modest attempt to include the biggest inspiration in my cooking life: my Hungarian grandmother. Up until her death in her late 90s Gram continued to maintain a vegetable and herb garden. She is my real inspiration for cooking. She even got me to stand eating liver every once in a while this way.Food.comThe most charming place I have ever eaten was the Inn On Brushy Creek in Austin when I lived there in the mid 80's. It was a small house converted into a dining room and kitchen that only served 12 tables at a time and they were only open on the weekends. It was BYOB and the family cat was always basking on the hearth of the fireplace but would occasionally patrol the room looking for attention. The proprietors were a charming elderly male couple who would visit you tableside to make sure dinner was perfect, which it always was. You never knew what was on the menu for the evening because they changed the menu every weekend but the meals were always world class. You would have your choice of the fish, chicken, or beef. But- they always served this soup as a first course. After months of pleading and an impromptu performance of "Stand By Your Man" to a stunned but enthusiastic dinner crowd, they gave me the recipe and a standing ovation. Delighted but humiliated, I asked what the name of the House Soup really was, and they said, "Two Old Queens Soup!" The dining room roared with laughter. That was the most enjoyable meal I ever had.
