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Edna Lewis Potatoes
_____________________ So this is what things look like when you share Christmas with someone who works in food. (Or just someone who loves lists.) I took on all the elements of Christmas dinner sans...
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DIY Potato Chips
______________ I have to confess, I am not entirely sure who is even playing in the big game today. Even though I was once — so very briefly — a sports editor at TIME magazine, I don’t have a whole lot...
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Homemade Irish Cream
___________________ Twas the night before Christmas Eve and my handcrafted gifts had yet to be finished. Or in most cases, even begun. A month of some excellent planning and plotting had unfortunately...
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Roasted Garlic Pasta
______________ A recent inventory of my kitchen revealed that I own seven garlic roasters, of varying shapes and sizes. That would seem excessive for anyone not turning 100 covers a night. It’s even...
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DIY Candied Ginger
_____________________ Over the holidays, as I was offering a friend a slice of gingerbread cake topped with a creamy layer of buttermilk frosting and little bits of crystallized ginger and sugared...
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Toad In The Hole
________________ This toad in the hole was a full week in the making. It had been a very meat and dairy heavy late afternoon run through the late winter greenmarket. I had enough apples, roots and...
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Come On Spring Fish And Greens
_______________ So there is more snow coming this afternoon. Which is technically the first day of spring, but whatever. Apparently spring is just a cruel and misguided myth this year, although leaving...
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Butternut Squash Apple Pistachio Soup
I managed to make it all the way through this ridiculous winter with barely a cough, wheeze, or a sniffle. So of course during this very first non-freezing, nearly balmy week, I woke up with a scratchy...
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Roasted Pear And Burrata Salad With Maple Vinaigrette
I particularly love the bumper seasons — the start of the fall when you are still getting Summer watermelon and heirloom tomatoes alongside the grapes and pumpkins; those first few weeks of Spring,...
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Berry Pancakes in Retrograde
I’m going to have to ask you to use your imagination on this photo. Scads of berries are indeed always attractive, but what this is really supposed to be is a teetering pile of berry laden pancakes...
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