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Mamaliga

March 4, 2022 by Ellen Kanner 2 Comments

Exclusive! I’m excited to share this Sofkee recipe from Miami Vegan. Celebrate Indigenous People’s Day by enjoying corn, one of the Magic Eight crops Indigenous Americans gifted to the world. (The other seven, btw, are tomatoes, chiles, squash, beans, cacao, vanilla and potatoes). You may know it as polenta; you may know it as grits….

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Filed Under: grain dish, MAIN COURSE Tagged With: corn, polenta, sofkee

Miami Flavors – Sofkee

October 11, 2021 by Ellen Kanner 2 Comments

Exclusive! I’m excited to share this Sofkee recipe from Miami Vegan. Celebrate Indigenous People’s Day by enjoying corn, one of the Magic Eight crops Indigenous Americans gifted to the world. (The other seven, btw, are tomatoes, chiles, squash, beans, cacao, vanilla and potatoes). You may know it as polenta; you may know it as grits….

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Filed Under: grain dish, MAIN COURSE Tagged With: corn, polenta, sofkee

Three Lowcountry Women — Preserving History and Making it

March 8, 2021 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Tomato Corn Green Lima and Okra Soup in a bowl. Photo by Deborah Whitlaw Llewellyn

Among my culinary crushes, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor stands tall.  She stood tall in real life, too. She was as statuesque and extroverted as I am short and nervous. We met in the pages of her 1970 cookbook/memoir, Vibration Cooking or The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl. I’d never heard of Geechee before, and like the…

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Filed Under: LIGHT MEALS, Random Notes and thoughts, soups, Uncategorized Tagged With: corn, green lima, lima bean, oakra, soup, tomato

Maque Choux — the Big Easy

September 7, 2020 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

maque choux

It’s Labor Day, so take it easy with maque choux.  Easy yet elemental, maque choux features the Creole holy trinity of onion, pepper and celery, and three summer besties — tomato, basil and corn. It honors the big-hearted spirit of Louisiana, offers the pleasure and bright flavors of summer, nourishment when we need it, and…

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Filed Under: MAIN COURSE, veggie dish Tagged With: african, cajun, celery, corn, Creole, french, green pepper, greens, holy trinity, Louisiana, native american, New Orleans, salad, Southern, spanish, succotash, tomato, vegetable

Calabacitas | Cinco de Mayo During Coronavirus

May 4, 2020 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

zucchini, celery and spring onions for clabacitas

Calabacitas–roughly translated as “zucchini” is a hearty, vegetarian Mexican dish that is intensely satisfying. Serve it alone as a side or add rice and tortillas to make it a meal. We see — or want to see — glimmerings of hope, of life after Covid-19, of a return to normal life.  But honey, I think…

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Filed Under: MAIN COURSE, veggie dish Tagged With: celery, cinco de mayo, corn, mexican, onion, poblano, spicy, spring onion, tomato, tortillas, vegan, Vegetarian, zucchini

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Ellen Kanner ELLEN KANNER is a soulful vegan writer on food, wellness and sustainability with over 15 years' experience. She's a recipe developer for numerous publications...[Read More] .

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