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It’s Just Supper
Oh my goodness gracious ladies and gentlemen! I found this poor little post lurking in the back of the archives, unpublished! This happened, like, months ago and I forgot to share it with you....
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A Story in Pink
In the previous post Something Close to Inspiration, I mentioned beet risotto and provided a recipe. Without a story. (And with a couple errors, but we’ll get to that later.) Of course the...
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Cauliflower For Supper
In the kitchen languished two ingredients, one delectable and perfect, one, well, unappealing. On the counter, well-wrapped, sat a beautifully crusty and gorgeous loaf of homemade no-knead bread from...
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Potato Frittata, 30 Minutes Flat
And so begins the great routine, this great unbroken expanse of time in which you ask, “Does this recipe require me to be in the kitchen for more than fifteen minutes? Because if it does, I’m having...
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Valentine Bangers
Lent (the forty days before Easter, representing the time Jesus spent fasting in the wilderness and being, um, not tempted but sort of tempted maybe not really by the devil) is a season of simplicity....
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Wait No More
Friends, the day has come. Actually a couple days ago, but we only harvested 3 spears. It was rather sad. Dad doesn’t love asparagus, so Mom and I ate them all greedily in a bacon-pasta-white-wine-ish...
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Hot Topics. Ham.
You know what topic really should be a bigger part of the American conversation? (Please comment your guesses before reading the remainder of this post.) Observe the following not-hot-enough topics:...
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Little Miracles, Lots of Vegetables
A very interesting thing happened a couple days ago- me thinks not a coincidence, either. On Wednesday of last week, my grandpa passed away. Grandpa had some things that he really liked to talk about,...
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Learning Too Much For 1 Post = Good Thing
If you saw the Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night, well, so did I. But we went there in person. I was trying to represent Southwest Virginia. Trying. Usually I get chopped...
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Come Here, Sweet Pea
Uh, Houston? Sorry dude, but we gotta problem. This is the time of year when food bloggers across the nation wax poetic about fresh summer cucumbers, about raspberries and blueberries, about lettuce...
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Stacks. Piles. Vegetables.
Does anyone else feel that summer causes eyes to get too big for stomachs? Hmm? Does anyone else feel, say, that a pile of bargain local shell peas, even though you’ll spend twenty minutes plucking...
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Thai Crispy Crab and Melon Salad
One day not so long ago, an ultra-ripe canary melon, an inquisitive-looking, curvy Japanese cucumber, and a small can of crab commanded my attention. They got it. At my house, meals are made of...
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Cotija Lime Half-Tacos
We are always trying to be perfect, you know, or at least to do, to some small extent, what is expected of us. To meet some unwritten standard, and we feel we’re the only ones really lagging behind....
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