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Slow-Cooker Tomato Sauce
After picking the last of our yellow-pear and Roma tomatoes from the vine and combining them with the week's yield of Early Girls and Red Sun Slicers from our CSA box, I had a pile of about two dozen...
Recipe of the Week (Month?): Crunchy Granola
Contrary to what you might think, I have not just been sitting here slacking on this blog's Recipe of the Week feature. I've been sitting here baking batch after batch of Mark Bittman's Crunchy Granola and slacking on this blog's...
Recipe of the Week: Slow Cooker Lasagna
I was completely ready, dear readers, to write a long post about what a sham this Slow Cooker Lasagna recipe from Real Simple was, how it turned out mushy and inedible. I am always intrigued when I see tasty-sounding meatless...
Recipe of the Week: Overnight Waffles
Every Sunday morning, we all sit down around the kitchen table and tuck into a big breakfast of waffles, pancakes, French toast, or something else similarly comforting and carby. Harper contentedly dips bites into a tiny dish of maple syrup,...
Recipe of the Week: Quinoa Muffins
Eek! I have already fallen behind with my plans for posting one new recipe per week. After eating at The French Laundry last weekend, I didn't have the hunger or drive to cook anything new or involved, but I'm back...
Recipe of the Week: Baked Salmon with Couscous Pilaf
In an attempt to cook more adventurously and hopefully add a few new favorites to our regular rotation this year (isn't this one on everyone's new year's resolution list, along with the perpetual promise to Drink More Water?), I am...
Melon Marmalade
Recently we received two melons in our farm box, one cantaloupe and one Haogen. Harper and I are the only melon-eaters in this house, and we were still working on the huge cantaloupe that came with the previous week's box,...
Plum Cake
I had a boatload of plums from this week's farm box, and Sunday was dark and gloomy, so I baked this German Plum Cake. If I make it again, I'll make the following modifications to the recipe: Bake for 40...
Home Iron Chef
What came in this week's farm box, and how I plan to use it: I'll roast and puree the Kabocha squash. Some of it will be Harper Chow; the rest will be the base for a soup, or perhaps...
Hot, Delicious Friday Links
The New York Times compares Domino's new "Brooklyn-Style Pizza" with actual, if elusive, Brooklyn-style pizzas. Best quote in the story comes from Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn borough president: "It's a multinational right-wing company, mass marketing the Brooklyn attitude with obsolete ethnic...
Sniffling, Sneezing, Coughing, Aching, Stuffy Head ...
I've been suffering this entire week with a cold that, at this point, seems anything but common. I've been popping the Quils (both Day- and Ny-), drinking so much fluid that my bladder is threatening me with a cease-and-desist order,...
