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The sure thing: Vegetable couscous is THE summer potluck star

Posted May 25th 2008 2:55PM by Julie Tilsner
Filed under: Parties, Grains, Vegetables, Spirit of Summer, Vegetarian/Vegan

Summer's nearly here, and you know what that means: Potlucks.

Everyone needs at least one dish they can nail at a moment's notice. A dish everyone will love, from vegans to carnivores. Something that's cheap, easy, quick, yet delicious. Something that dresses to impress. Something that even bad home cooks can manage.

I got your sure thing right here. Vegetable couscous. It's a simple recipe, but one that's certain to please. I pulled it out of Jeanne Lemlin's mighty Quick Vegetarian Pleasures.

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Peg Bracken's Fake Hollandaise Sauce

Posted Oct 28th 2007 8:29PM by Marisa McClellan
Filed under: Dairy, Recipes, Books, Retro cookery

As we noted last week, Peg Bracken, author of the I Hate To Cook Book and the original queen of recipe short cuts, died last week at the age of 89. This morning Weekend Edition aired an interview that Liane Hanson did with Bracken in 1999. She was witty and irreverent and hearing the interview sent me to my bookshelf to find my copy of her book.

Flipping through it, her voice leaped off the page. Some of her recipes are a bit dated and yet many of them are still very useful and relevant. One recipe that jumped out at me was her instructions for Fake Hollandaise, because that was one of my grandmother's go-to sauces. She would make it to pour over steamed broccoli, boiled potatoes and to fancy up asparagus. So, in honor of Peg Bracken's life and work, I offer you her Fake Hollandaise recipe after the jump.

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The sure thing: Vegetable couscous is THE summer potluck star

Peg Bracken's Fake Hollandaise Sauce

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