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Food Writers, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down...
Food writers, I love you sometimes but when your recipes fail you totally bum me out and leave me with a bad dinner debacle.For example, hey you Smitten Kitchen, your recipe produced the greasiest...
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Oh, have you seen our herb garden?...
Since it is Memorial Day, we had to grill. It's summer, man! I also had a strong urge to make potato salad. We left the mayonnaise in the refrigerator and went with an herb vinaigrette. However, here...
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I printed out the recipe for Spinach Peanut Stew in 2004 from the New York Times website. I have the time stamp on the bottom of the page. I just tried to Google it and couldn't find a link, that's how...
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EcoMommyo Reads Michael Pollan's "Cooked"
Oh how I wish I was a highly paid journalism professor at UC-Berkeley. Then I would be blissfully unaware that people have accents in this great nation of ours and have long Sundays of no errands to...
View ArticleL'air du vinaigre
Hey kids! Would you like your house to smell like vinegar? Have I got the recipe for you!We had a surprisingly good tomato year this year in our garden. This is extra amazing considering we had a...
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Help Me Obi Kalenobi, You're My Only Hope!
Happy New Year! Have you bought your collards yet? They are the New Kale and you will be eating lots of leafy green vegetables this year, right?????? Welcome to your annual reset: Bon Appétit's 2014...
View ArticleThe Four Day Cocktail
This past week, I spent four days making a cocktail.If you saw the picture in Bon Appetit, you might drop everything and make it too. Its marbled beauty reminiscent of an Italian cathedral.... Oh...
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30 minutes Or 75 minutes, whatevs...
Mark Bittman, you're killing me. I made your Spaghetti and Meatballs with hope in my heart and I made it in 30 minutes! (times 2.5)I completely understand your argument that mise-en-place is an overly...
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Really Making The Apples Last
As we settled down for some PBS Christmas special last night, I reflected on the winter. A sneak snow storm was dusting the roads outside and it appears that winter has finally arrived, technically and...
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La Historia de Una Abeja
Readers, let me tell you of my bee woes. One of my hives has been a regular telenovela.Round about this time last year, we noticed one of our two hives was quiet … too quiet. It turned out as we...
View ArticleFridge Archeology : Harnessing the Power Within ... My Refrigerator
Ok, I'm serious this time. After one too many times slamming the freezer door closed and hoping it stayed closed, I'm going to start using things. I was hunting for some frozen tidbit and noticed, like...
View ArticleFridge Archeology : Harnessing the Power Within ... My Pantry!
I wish I could say I made something virtuous with the last of the buckwheat flour. You know something like...porridge. But I made gluten-free chocolate waffles and maybe you should too. In fact, it was...
View ArticleFridge Archology : Harnessing the Power Within...My Freezer!
I surely would be seeing the back of my freezer by now except a box of frozen treats appeared courtesy of EcoGrandma and EcoKiddo. However, I did work down two of my tougher freezer challenges. I made...
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