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Chipotle and Black Bean Tempeh Chili

by Michele Redmond | Home Featured, Le Blog, Recipes and Culinary Nutrition

Chipotle and Black Bean Tempeh Chili Making chili should be an easy, homemade treat, but chili competitions and throwdowns can make it feel like it should be Instagram-ble or worthy of excessive scrutiny. Add to that pressure an assumption that meat has to be central...

Go-To BBQ Sauce: Smokey, Spicy, Tangy & Sweet

by Michele Redmond | Home Featured, Le Blog, Recipes and Culinary Nutrition

Creating a BBQ sauce recipe is basically asking for a culinary throwdown. With parts of our country owning different styles and declaring theirs as the best, I tread on hallowed ground. However, when I get a craving for BBQ, these are the ingredients that hit the...

Lazy, Lighter Chocolat Chaud—Hot Chocolate with French Airs

by Michele Redmond | Le Blog, Recipes and Culinary Nutrition

Lazy, Lighter Chocolat Chaud—Hot Chocolate with French Airs It snowed in the desert on National Margarita day. Neither event makes sense—a beach-boozy drink celebrated in winter and snow-covered cactus. Instead of tequila, my beverage is based on chocolate liquor—the...

Easy homemade Honeycomb for a Flavorful Sweet Treat

by Michele Redmond | Le Blog, Recipes and Culinary Nutrition

Easy homemade Honeycomb for a Flavorful Sweet Treat I ate honeycomb for the first time at the Royal Highlands show in Scotland where it was called cinder toffee. I adopted a Scottish accent after the first bite. I’d eaten honeycomb-covered chocolate bars in London,...

Artichoke Puttanesca–Forget its Saucy Reputation

by Michele Redmond | Home Featured, Le Blog, Recipes and Culinary Nutrition

Artichoke Puttanesca–Forget its Saucy Reputation Serves 6 as a complete meal with the pasta option A delicious mix of tangy, spicy and savory ingredients makes Puttanesca sauce (sugo alla puttanesca) a meal-time habit that can be made from your pantry. This...

Marmalade Macaroons or Rochers à la Noix de Coco

by Michele Redmond | Le Blog, Recipes and Culinary Nutrition

Add macaroons to your dessert menu to master a classic French treat with Italian origins that’s surprisingly quick and easy. Macaroons (mac-uh-ruinz) based on coconut, look and sound nothing like the butter-cream filled almond cookies macarons (mac-kaw-rhone except...