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Sauteed Peppers, Onions, and Eggplant
This time of year peppers and eggplant are two of the few plants that keep on producing through the heat. One of my favorite treatments of them is to pan sauté them together with onions until they’re soft and carmelized. You can eat them straight up as a side dish, use them as a topping [...]
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Vegetable Frittata
With local eggs and seasonal vegetables, this makes a simple foundation for a satisfying meal. (This is adapted from a Mark Bittman recipe.) 6-7 eggs (I use one less than double the amount of people being served) your choice seasonal vegetables, chopped and lightly sauteed in olive oil, for example: beet greens, chard, arugula, or [...]
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Grains and Legumes
I love coming back from a shopping trip and having a cabinet full of a variety of grains and legumes. I enjoy seeing the different colors, shapes, and sizes, and imagining what tasty dishes I’ll make. They are an essential accompaniment to fresh local foods, and while it’s typically not easy to get or grow [...]
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From the Winter Garden
Had this tasty salad of arugula and microgreens after thinning the young lettuce. Here is a recipe you can make with local ingredients a bit later in the season. Spring Greens Salad arugula tender young lettuce cuttings of other greens you may have, like chard or beet carrots, shaved into curls with a vegetable peeler [...]
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Goodbye to The Minimalist, Hello to a Real Food Advocate
Three weeks ago, Mark Bittman‘s The Minimalist column ended a 13 year run in The New York Times. Bittman (as he is known even to my 6 year old daughter) has become a go-to source in our household, since his recipes provide flavorful but usually straightforward dishes with many options for substitutions and variations. In [...]
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Make Your Own Pickles
The advent of summer vegetables brings an abundance of cheap cucumbers at the farmers market – 3 for $1 – and $2 will buy you enough to make about two quarts of pickles. Experienced canners may find the the humble pickled cucumber old hat, but I always have an appetite for the cold, crisp refrigerated [...]
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Aunt Carol’s Greens and Potatoes
I was bemoaning the fact that I don’t care for bitter greens, and my husband’s aunt Carol suggested this recipe. We liked it so much we’re making it again this week. Here’s what I did: boiled about a pound of new potatoes in salted water. While they were cooking, I put a couple of tablespoons [...]
Lemon Curd
If you bought (or have) Meyer lemons and you’re looking for something to do with them, you should try making lemon curd. That’s what I did with the lemons I bought last week. If you’ve never had it, lemon curd is an irresistible confection of lemon juice (and zest), butter, eggs, and sugar. Use it [...]
Recipes for Health Series
If you haven’t seen it before, you might want to check out the “Recipes for Health”:http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/series/recipes_for_health/index.html series from the ??New York Times??. Here’s their description: bq. Recipes for Health offers recipes with an eye towards empowering you to cook healthy meals every day. Produce, seasonal and locally grown when possible, and a well-stocked pantry are [...]
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