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items: Springtime Pot-au-feu Beef Stew Recipe
items: Spiced Pilau Rice with Beets Recipe
items: Chocolate Buckwheat Pound Cake Recipe
items: Winter Vegetable Curry Recipe
items: Homemade Galette des Rois Recipe
items: Chipotle Cumin Roasted Almonds Recipe
items: French Holiday Recipes
items: French Christmas Cookies (Sablés) Recipe
items: Stuffed Lumaconi with Butternut Squash and Chestnuts Recipe
items: Vegetarian Batch-Cooking for Winter: 1 1/2-Hour Prep, 6 Easy Meals !

Springtime Pot-au-feu Beef Stew Recipe
type: item
creator: clotilde
date: 2026-03-10T09:30:00Z
subject: Meat & Charcuterie
subject: *Dairy-free
subject: *Egg-free
subject: *Gluten-free
subject: *Grain-free
subject: *Kid-friendly
subject: *Nut-free
subject: *Paleo-friendly
subject: Beef
subject: Carrot
subject: Chive
subject: Fennel
subject: Green Pea
subject: Potato
description: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! Our spring has been less than exemplary, with record low temperatures and downpours. And in a country that loves (loves!) […] The post Springtime Pot-au-feu Beef Stew Recipe appeared first on Chocolate & Zucchini.
encoded: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! <img width="760" height="505" src="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/springtimepotaufeu.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/springtimepotaufeu.jpg 760w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/springtimepotaufeu-450x299.jpg 450w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/springtimepotaufeu-300x200.jpg 300w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/springtimepotaufeu-355x237.jpg 355w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px" /> Our spring has been less than exemplary, with record low temperatures and downpours. And in a country that loves (loves!) to complain about the weather, the season has turned into a total moan fest. I usually try to steer clear of such discussions — is there anything less constructive than griping about something no one can control? — and just nod non-noncommittally whenever bad-weather comments are made. But in this instance, even I have to admit that boy, this May has felt a lot like a November. And so, in order to bridge the gap between the expected season and the actual one, I decided to make a springtime pot-au-feu. It would combine the comforts of this epitomic cold-weather beef stew with the vibrancy of the first sprightly vegetables that have bravely managed to sprout and grow despite the unseemly meteorologic conditions: pencil-thin new carrots, baby fennel bulbs, green peas, and waxy little potatoes. For a really good pot-au-feu, you need to cook the meat for a goooood loooong time — four hours is just about right — and you need to make it the day before you intend to serve it: this allows the flavors to deepen, and gives you a chance to skim some of the fat from the broth, making the whole dish lighter and more refined. The classic wintry pot-au-feu typically includes leeks, carrots, turnips, celeriac, and potatoes, and sometimes cabbage, which are added to the meat as it cooks until they beco…

Spiced Pilau Rice with Beets Recipe
type: item
creator: clotilde
date: 2026-01-27T09:41:23Z
subject: Vegetables & Grains
subject: *Dairy-free
subject: *Egg-free
subject: *Gluten-free
subject: *Kid-friendly
subject: *Vegan
subject: *Vegetarian
subject: Beet
subject: Cardamom
subject: Cashew
subject: Chervil
subject: Cilantro
subject: Cinnamon
subject: Coriander Seed
subject: Fennel Seed
subject: Mustard Seed
subject: Rice
description: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! When I returned to Paris after two years of fabulous eats in California, one of the things I missed the […] The post Spiced Pilau Rice with Beets Recipe appeared first on Chocolate & Zucchini.
encoded: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! <img width="760" height="507" src="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/beet_pilau-3-760x507.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Easy Spiced Beet Pilau" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/beet_pilau-3.jpg 760w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/beet_pilau-3-450x300.jpg 450w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/beet_pilau-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/beet_pilau-3-355x237.jpg 355w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/beet_pilau-3-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px" /> When I returned to Paris after two years of fabulous eats in California, one of the things I missed the most was good Indian food. Since India produces excellent engineers, many of them end up working for Silicon Valley companies, and we made friends with one of them who was kind enough to invite us to dinner now and then. His wife, a fine cook with no work visa, would then spend the day cooking for us, to our collective delight and eternal gratitude. The memory of those meals has made me particularly fond of family-style Indian cooking, the kind you can practice at home without too much complication, and without chasing a million ingredients around the La Chapelle neighborhood*. This may be paradoxical, but I find these dishes particularly welcome in colder months — probably because of the warmth of their flavors and the richness of their spices, as evidenced by today’s recipe. <img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10042" src="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/beet_pilau.jpg" alt="Easy Spiced Beet Pilau: Ingredients" width="760" height="1126" style="width:100%" srcset="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/beet_pilau.jpg 760w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/beet_pilau-304x450.jpg 304w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/beet_pilau-513x760.jpg 513w" sizes="(max-width: 76…

Chocolate Buckwheat Pound Cake Recipe
type: item
creator: clotilde
date: 2026-01-20T13:00:12Z
subject: Cakes & Tarts
subject: *Dairy-free
subject: *Gluten-free
subject: *Nut-free
subject: *Vegetarian
subject: Buckwheat
subject: Butter
subject: Chocolate
subject: Coconut Butter
subject: Egg
description: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! I love pound cakes, or quatre-quarts* in French. As a child, I went through a phase of eating Breton pound […] The post Chocolate Buckwheat Pound Cake Recipe appeared first on Chocolate & Zucchini.
encoded: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! <img width="760" height="522" src="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/chocolate_buckwheat_pound_cake_birdseye_h-760x522.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Chocolate Buckwheat Pound Cake" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/chocolate_buckwheat_pound_cake_birdseye_h.jpg 760w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/chocolate_buckwheat_pound_cake_birdseye_h-450x309.jpg 450w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px" /> I love pound cakes, or quatre-quarts* in French. As a child, I went through a phase of eating Breton pound cake for breakfast day in, day out. I’m talking about supermarket pound cake, baked in long yellow logs and wrapped in soft paper. I liked it on the stale side, so I sliced it in advance, and let it age three to four days. I was an affineur of pound cake if you will. I only recently discovered the beauty of homemade pound cake, and it has become one of my could-make-it-blindfolded cakes, in rotation with my French yogurt cake. You know how pound cakes work, right ? You weigh the eggs, and add the same weight in sugar, melted butter, and flour. This means these ingredients each form a quarter of the batter, hence the French name, four-quarters. The English name comes from originally using a pound each of the ingredients, but that yields a pretty big cake. The French ratio allows for more flexibility. Of course, it doesn’t tell you if you’re supposed to weigh the eggs with or without the shell, and how much baking powder to add. In truth, you can just relax about both. We’re not building a rocket ship; we’re baking a cake. Weigh the eggs with or without, add one or two teaspoons of baking powder, it will be fine. Channel your inner French grandma and do what feels right. And it is a recipe that lends itself to variations with remarkable grace; my favorite kind of recipe for sure. Today I will share one of my favorite riffs: the buckwhea…

Winter Vegetable Curry Recipe
type: item
creator: clotilde
date: 2026-01-13T09:00:00Z
subject: Vegetables & Grains
subject: *Dairy-free
subject: *Egg-free
subject: *Gluten-free
subject: *Grain-free
subject: *Kid-friendly
subject: *Nut-free
subject: *Paleo-friendly
subject: *Vegan
subject: *Vegetarian
subject: Broccoli
subject: Carrot
subject: Cauliflower
subject: Cinnamon
subject: Clove
subject: Coconut Milk
subject: Ginger
subject: Onion
subject: Parsnip
subject: Potato
description: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! Do you want to hear one of the least publicized benefits of working from home? You get sick less often. […] The post Winter Vegetable Curry Recipe appeared first on Chocolate & Zucchini.
encoded: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! <img width="760" height="507" src="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/winter-vegetable-curry-4-760x507.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Winter Vegetable Curry" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/winter-vegetable-curry-4.jpg 760w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/winter-vegetable-curry-4-450x300.jpg 450w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/winter-vegetable-curry-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/winter-vegetable-curry-4-355x237.jpg 355w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/winter-vegetable-curry-4-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px" /> Do you want to hear one of the least publicized benefits of working from home? You get sick less often. Not only can you choose to stay in when it’s cold and drizzly and icky outside (pyjamas optional), but you also spend less time in crowded public transportation, shake fewer hands and kiss fewer cheeks (in French office environments, it is common to kiss your close colleagues hello when you come in in the morning), and touch fewer shared coffee pots and bathroom door handles. Or at least that has been my experience for the past thirteen winters, ever since I quit my office job and started working for myself. Except this one winter a few years ago, when my son Milan went to daycare for the first time. There he was naturally in contact with other adorable little people — including twins he’s still friends with five years later — and the bazillion germs and viruses they all brought to share with one another, and took home at night. It’s all part of the process, and I was copiously warned about it, but we went through a rough patch that first winter, when Milan was sick for the first time of his life, I had the nastiest cold I’d ever, ever had, and neither of us seemed to be getting better. At all. For weeks. It looked like it was going to be a long…

Homemade Galette des Rois Recipe
type: item
creator: clotilde
date: 2026-01-06T13:00:00Z
subject: Cakes & Tarts
subject: *Vegetarian
subject: Almond Flour
subject: Butter
subject: Hazelnut
subject: Orange Flower
subject: Puff Pastry
subject: Sugar
description: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! If you’ve ever been in France during the month of January, surely you’ve noticed the blossoming of galettes des rois […] The post Homemade Galette des Rois Recipe appeared first on Chocolate & Zucchini.
encoded: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! If you’ve ever been in France during the month of January, surely you’ve noticed the blossoming of galettes des rois in the window of every bakery and pastry shop. A puff pastry pie garnished with a buttery filling, it is the traditional confection with which the Epiphany is celebrated*; I have written in more detail about this tradition in this post, so I invite you to go and read that first. I’ll wait right here. La galette, and the fun ritual that determines who will be king or queen for the day (allow me to insist you read this post if you don’t yet know about the fève thing), bring back many a happy childhood memory for me. Aside from the two years I spent in California, I have partaken of at least one galette a year for as long as I can remember. My first homemade galette des rois! I used to buy them from the pastry shop, like most French people do, but I started making my own a few years ago. My deep attachment to this confection should have compelled me to do so years earlier, but the Epiphany is theoretically celebrated on January 6 — though this is extended to the whole month of January nowadays — and I always felt a bit too tuckered out after the holidays to tackle the project. But that inaugural year was different. We were celebrating my parents’ 40th wedding anniversary one Saturday, my sister, brother-in-law and nephew were visiting from London for the occasion, and my mother had asked if I could bring the dessert for our celebratory lunch. It seemed the perfect opportunity to share a galette with my family, and I had just enough time to make it myself. My initial intention was to make my own puff pastry, using this easy puff pastry formula, but I didn’t quite have it in me so I decided to use store-bought puff pastry. Not just any store-bought puff pastry, mind you, but Madame François’ puff pastry, which is produced in Sologne with butter from the Charentes, farine de gruau (fine wheat flour) an…

Chipotle Cumin Roasted Almonds Recipe
type: item
creator: clotilde
date: 2025-12-30T11:30:48Z
subject: Appetizers
subject: Food Gifts
subject: *Dairy-free
subject: *Egg-free
subject: *Gluten-free
subject: *Grain-free
subject: *Paleo-friendly
subject: *Vegan
subject: *Vegetarian
subject: Almond
subject: Chili Pepper
subject: Cumin
description: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! I am ordinarily immune to the pre-holiday rush everyone talks about. I am not in charge of cooking an elaborate […] The post Chipotle Cumin Roasted Almonds Recipe appeared first on Chocolate & Zucchini.
encoded: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! <img width="760" height="507" src="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/saltedchilialmonds.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/saltedchilialmonds.jpg 760w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/saltedchilialmonds-450x300.jpg 450w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/saltedchilialmonds-300x200.jpg 300w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/saltedchilialmonds-355x237.jpg 355w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px" /> I am ordinarily immune to the pre-holiday rush everyone talks about. I am not in charge of cooking an elaborate Christmas meal (I contribute but don’t host), I don’t attend a trillion holiday functions, and we don’t go crazy with the presents in my family, so the lead-up to the holidays isn’t significantly busier than other times of the year. For some reason though, the end of this year has felt particularly intense. Not with holiday-related stuff, but with various work projects I was striving to complete before taking a little time off to cuddle up at the foot of the Christmas tree and sip hot cocoa while humming Petit Papa Noël (you’re welcome). Of course, when you’re a freelancer, having a lot of work is something to rejoice — not complain — about, but what it means is that I have had zero time to get my act together and prepare edible gifts as I aspire to. Fortunately I have a few tricks up my sleeve, and just a couple of days ago I decided I was going to be giving little bags of the chipotle cumin roasted almonds I’ve been making for myself (and love love loving) lately. They are a great example of something simple and easy that is still absolutely lovely to receive: few people actually take the time to make their own spiced and roasted nuts, yet they are so much tastier homemade than store-bought. They disappear in an instant when you offer them with a pre-dinner cocktail, and I also…

French Holiday Recipes
type: item
creator: Anne Elder
date: 2025-12-23T08:34:14Z
subject: Round-ups
description: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! Christmas is just a few days away (not to stress you out or anything) and I was shocked to realize […] The post French Holiday Recipes appeared first on Chocolate & Zucchini.
encoded: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! Christmas is just a few days away (not to stress you out or anything) and I was shocked to realize that, in fourteen years of Chocolate & Zucchini, I have never offered an actual post outlining how to host a French holiday meal. So whether you’re seeking to add a little Frenchness to your holiday celebrations, attending your first bona fide French holiday meal this year, or even hosting one (gah!), let me break things down for you, and suggest some winning French holiday recipes. Christmas and the New Year French families get together for a Christmas Eve dinner (le réveillon de Noël), and often there’s a second meal for Christmas Day lunch (not breakfast or brunch), either with the same cast or with a different part of the family. Christmas is largely celebrated in the home; most restaurants are closed that night for staff members to celebrate with their own family. It is considered an intimate occasion reserved for family members and close family friends, so if you are a guest from outside the family, it’s a big deal. Presents are opened either after dinner on Christmas Eve, or in the morning on Christmas Day. The French New Year’s Eve (le réveillon du Nouvel An) is often celebrated with friends rather than with family, and it is more of a grown-up occasion. If there are small children, they will be tucked into bed early or allowed to collapse on some couch, but the party is not about them. (Sorry kids.) Some people go out to dinner on New Year’s Eve, but I don’t know who they are and I wouldn’t want to go with them. In my circle, we are more likely to have a special dinner at someone’s house, and possibly go out later, or just push the furniture and party at home*. Apéritif A French holiday meal is designed to go on long into the night, so the apéritif phase — pre-dinner drinks with nibbles — will last awhile. Champagne is the typical drink served, but because I am contrarian, I prefer to pick out an alternat…

French Christmas Cookies (Sablés) Recipe
type: item
creator: clotilde
date: 2025-12-16T09:00:39Z
subject: Cookies & Small Cakes
subject: Food Gifts
subject: *Kid-friendly
subject: *Nut-free
subject: *Vegetarian
subject: Cinnamon
subject: Vanilla
description: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! Biscuits de Noël Laurence is one of my best and oldest friends. I met her when I was fourteen, on […] The post French Christmas Cookies (Sablés) Recipe appeared first on Chocolate & Zucchini.
encoded: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! <img width="760" height="505" src="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/sablesnoel.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/sablesnoel.jpg 760w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/sablesnoel-450x299.jpg 450w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/sablesnoel-300x200.jpg 300w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/sablesnoel-355x237.jpg 355w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px" /> Biscuits de Noël Laurence is one of my best and oldest friends. I met her when I was fourteen, on our first day of high school, and soon we were inseparable, so alike in so many ways that people sometimes mistook us for sisters. I loved going to her house after school. For one thing, there was a television there, which wasn’t the case at my parents’, so there was always the electrifying prospect of maybe catching one of those shows everyone else was watching at the time. But aside from that, the house felt like a big happy place: Laurence had two (actual) sisters, and her mother, Christine, took care of small children at home, so there were a lot of comings and goings, conversations, people at the door, and girls shouting things down the stairwell. Laurence and I would first drop by the bright kitchen and raid the cabinets to make ourselves a snack — the essential goûter — then we would dash up the two flights of stairs and shut the door of her room behind us so we could talk and talk and talk, the way fourteen-year-olds do. There was often bread and nutella in that kitchen, or sometimes a yogurt cake, and also very good homemade vanilla yogurts made with whole milk. And every year, around Christmastime, there was a tin of biscuits de Noël that Christine had baked. Thin, crisp, and delicately buttery with just a whisper of cinnamon, these were simple cookies, deceptively plain in appearance, but they made you close your eyes and…

Stuffed Lumaconi with Butternut Squash and Chestnuts Recipe
type: item
creator: clotilde
date: 2025-12-09T10:41:39Z
subject: Pasta
subject: *Egg-free
subject: *Nut-free
subject: *Vegetarian
subject: Cheese
subject: Chestnut
subject: Lemon
subject: Parsley
subject: Winter Squash
description: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! I will own up to it right then and there: I am an inveterate collector of pasta. Guilty as charged. […] The post Stuffed Lumaconi with Butternut Squash and Chestnuts Recipe appeared first on Chocolate & Zucchini.
encoded: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! <img width="760" height="507" src="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lumaconi_h-760x507.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Stuffed Lumaconi with Butternut and Chestnuts" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lumaconi_h.jpg 760w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lumaconi_h-450x300.jpg 450w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lumaconi_h-300x200.jpg 300w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lumaconi_h-355x237.jpg 355w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lumaconi_h-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px" /> I will own up to it right then and there: I am an inveterate collector of pasta. Guilty as charged. In fine food shops and Italian markets, I love to study the different shapes and imagine which will lend themselves to smooth sauces or chunky ones. I love their names (rooster’s crests, radiators, little ears, thimbles), the traditional packaging, and the fact that, for just a few euros, I can treat myself to a package of something novel — not to mention the promise of an easy meal. Before I had children, I had to rein in my purchases, as my kitchen cabinets overflowed faster that Maxence and I actually ate pasta. But with two young boys who would eat it at every meal if I let them — their dream breakfast is cold leftover pasta, a recessive trait for sure — I am free to buy whatever I please, knowing I will easily find a use for it. And I recently fell hard for a package of lumaconi, those large snail-shaped pasta sold in big bulging packages that scream “Buy me, I’m special!” <img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13265" src="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lumaconi_ingredients.jpg" alt="Stuffed Lumaconi with Butternut and Chestnuts - Ingredients" width="760" height="1134" style="width:100%" srcset="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lumaconi_ingredients.jpg 760w, https://c…

Vegetarian Batch-Cooking for Winter: 1 1/2-Hour Prep, 6 Easy Meals !
type: item
creator: clotilde
date: 2025-12-05T09:32:42Z
subject: Round-ups
subject: *Vegetarian
description: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! In addition to planning my menus, I have been doing more and more batch cooking these past few months. The […] The post Vegetarian Batch-Cooking for Winter: 1 1/2-Hour Prep, 6 Easy Meals ! appeared first on Chocolate & Zucchini.
encoded: Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! <img width="760" height="507" src="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/batch-cooking-winter-760x507.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Vegetarian Batch-Cooking for Winter" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/batch-cooking-winter.jpg 760w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/batch-cooking-winter-450x300.jpg 450w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/batch-cooking-winter-300x200.jpg 300w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/batch-cooking-winter-355x237.jpg 355w, https://cnz.to/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/batch-cooking-winter-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px" /> In addition to planning my menus, I have been doing more and more batch cooking these past few months. The idea of batch cooking is to block out time one day of the week to prep or cook a bunch of ingredients in advance, which you can draw from and combine for low-effort homemade meals the rest of the week. It is the shortest path to feeling like a kitchen superhero, saving you brain juice and money along the way. And today, I am offering you the vegetarian batch cooking plan for winter I’ve created and test-driven with great success: 1 1/2 hours of prep work for easy 6 meals on subsequent days. Meal #1: Spiced Pilau Rice with Beets — a comforting, beautiful-looking dish with warm spices. Meal #2: Stuffed Lumaconi with Butternut Squash — to start the week with a golden and appetizing dish that ticks all the boxes — pasta, silky sauce and melty cheese with an irrestistible toasted top layer. Meal #3: Winter Vegetable Curry — because a warming bowl of curry made with seasonal vegetables is always a good idea. Meal #4: Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Kimchi served with a poached egg — think miniature cabbages roasted until caramelized, paired with a simple Asian-inspired dressing. Meal #5: Grated Carrots and Beets with Leftover Curry — for a dinner involving very…