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Sesame Winter Vegetables
It is almost midnight, yesterday. I’m looking over my two attempts to put burdock root into words for you to read when you wake up with your coffee today. And I’m wondering if the thoughts on the page...
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Community potato salad
Sometimes on a Sunday night I’ll walk through the back door after a day away from home and see my daughter’s backpack on the floor, so crammed with stuff that it’s lying on its face, straps and back...
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Nori pinchy pocket feast
Even though last week I unintentionally abandoned regional foods, I’m a little bit glad it happened. In addition to the kombu, I bought some nori sheets. I have dozens in my cupboard now and am...
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Collard greens stuffed with mixed mushrooms
I confess that I’m still distracted by last week’s mushrooms. I love to photograph mushrooms of any stripe – and eat them – so anything that has to follow is at a disadvantage. Big green leaves just...
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Fresh fava salad
I spent all day yesterday with my mom and our inspired friend, rearranging my cluttered house. Though we have a good amount of space there’s nothing expansive about it. It’s a small house inside a big...
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Creamy celery soup
Dust flies everywhere when I mow the lawn. It does, at least, when it hasn’t rained for a month and I give in to the convenience of ridding the lawn of dandelion seedpods by taking the mower for one...
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Napa slaw with baby ginger
I’ve heard it said – in a writing workshop, no less – that you should never start a blog post like this: I went to the farmer’s market and look what I bought! Yawn. It’s predictable. But, listen....
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Garlic and tomato soup
When I realized I left my drawstring bag filled with garlic somewhere at the market on Saturday, my puffy little dream of making homemade pitas with roasted garlic deflated. When our daughter woke up...
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Roasted golden carrots with ginger, lime and shallots
You’re humming along by now, I’m sure. You’ve been up for hours, prepping. So have I. This year we’re at my mom’s house for the Thanksgiving meal. The kitchen, that will soon be filled with smells so...
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Sauerkraut, revision 2
In his book On Writing, Stephen King throws this out: “On the other hand…there is Harper Lee, who wrote only one book (the brilliant To Kill a Mockingbird). Any number of others, including James Agee,...
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The best swag at IFBC
If you didn’t know already, the International Food Blogger Conference is the place to go for swag. Sponsors are around every corner so there’s always a new energy bar, cold-pressed juice or artisan...
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Today, it’s fall
It hasn’t felt like fall to me yet, despite the fact that I wear my red boots almost every day and cup my hands around my tea mug in the morning. If I were somehow prevented from viewing my calendar,...
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Honey-poached beets and carrots with pomegranate relish
Years ago, my mom gave me an arty little tin with stickers inside that were the size and shape of the strips of paper inside fortune cookies. But instead of squint-worthy predictions (You will be lucky...
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Bright ideas at the Mother Earth News Fair
I wasn’t early enough to grab a chair at the pressure cooking demonstration on Sunday morning, when I went to the Mother Earth News Fair*, so I watched from the back as the presenter, Jill Nussinow,...
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