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25 Aug 2010Too Many Tomatoes, Squash, Beans and Other Good Things is definitely not applicable to my garden this year but it would have really come in handy last year when I was covered in tomatoes and grew tired of canning and eating fresh tomato sauce. I know, the absurdity of such thoughts in light of how [...]
We’re getting really itchy for fall around here. We’re ready for the garden to die. We’re really ready for the lawn to go dormant and I’m craving tailgates and warm rummy apple cider. We’re still enjoying fruits and veggies, but I’ve been dying for a reason to use the canned pumpkin that’s leftover from last [...]
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16 Aug 2010We have just a few homegrown plums left of the four boxes we started with. The other night, in a fit of divine experimentation, we made the most incredible ginger plum sauce. It was so good we couldn’t help but make a stir fry. It was incredible. Salty, sweet, and beautifully hinted with fruit, we [...]
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15 Jul 2010I have an unwritten rule about cookbooks. I don’t buy them if there are no pictures. It may seem childish, but I typically like to see what I’m cooking, mostly to know if I myself am failing the recipe. Few chefs get a pass at this rule. Alice Waters is one of them. If you’re [...]
As I mentioned earlier today, I scored a massive zucchini from one of our research farms (I’m a web developer for a Plant Sciences department). I’ve never seen such a huge zucchini, have you? With Neil and I already being sparse eaters, and Neil hating the taste of zucchini on its own (brat!), I had [...]
We arrived home late last night after a whirlwind sprint to Minnesota and back for my cousin Nate’s wedding to our new Sarah (we now have 3 Sarah’s in the family). We spent the weekend dodging insane weather, including 2 tornadoes and a host of warnings and hail predictions. I’m so happy to be home, [...]
If you’ve been watching Neil’s Twitter for the past week, you’ll notice that 98% of his tweets are about the World Cup. He’s been waiting for two years, and now that it’s on, whatever free moments he has have been spent glued to the games online. For my part, I thought it’d be cool to [...]
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14 Jun 2010For the most part, many of us rarely think of history when it comes to food. Food is food. We love to eat, enjoy, share recipes and try new and exciting ingredients. Even I didn’t grasp the significance of its origins until halfway through this book. I was having a conversation with my baby brother [...]
We’re having one of those weeks. Have you had any of these recently? The kind where every minute is filled with at least ten things and you need 5 lists just to keep yourself on track? In addition to preparations for Steve and Anja’s wedding this weekend, we’ve been busy with freelance clients, my first [...]
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27 May 2010I remember vividly the first time I had pesto. I was eleven and my friend’s mother prepared it for dinner at a sleepover. They were different than other parents in our neighborhood. They had a wine cellar and a tangine and regularly attended the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra. The pesto was from the cities, and came [...]
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