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Apple sauce

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Apple sauce is so completely easy to make that it hardly seems necessary to write a recipe.  Peel apples, add sugar, cook, cool, that’s about all there is to it. However, there are a few tips that help assure that your results with be top.  Here are a couple: Apple sauce is a great destination […]

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Apple sauce is so completely easy to make that it hardly seems necessary to write a recipe.  Peel apples, add sugar, cook, cool, that’s about all there is to it. However, there are a few tips that help assure that your results with be top.  Here are a couple: Apple sauce is a great destination

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Cherry Clafoutis

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In the yard next to ours, there is a huge old cherry tree that seems to be mostly untended.  Every year in late may, the starlings, black birds and magpies come to feast on the ripening cherries and our neighbor picks a few bags for himself and for friends from the low hanging branches that

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In the yard next to ours, there is a huge old cherry tree that seems to be mostly untended.  Every year in late may, the starlings, black birds and magpies come to feast on the ripening cherries and our neighbor picks a few bags for himself and for friends from the low hanging branches that

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Recipes | Savory Dishes

Gnocchi alla Romana

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Gnocchi alla Romana is a wonderfully comforting dish.  Bubbling and crispy with cheese on the outside, soft and rich inside, it makes a fantastic side dish with a roasted leg of lamb or even as the center of the plate with grilled asparagus.  It was also a trademark dish for my mother-in-law, Marianne, who almost

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Gnocchi alla Romana is a wonderfully comforting dish.  Bubbling and crispy with cheese on the outside, soft and rich inside, it makes a fantastic side dish with a roasted leg of lamb or even as the center of the plate with grilled asparagus.  It was also a trademark dish for my mother-in-law, Marianne, who almost

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Recipes | Veggies

Celery root “frites”

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Wondering what to do with that celery root that came in your CSA farm box? Here is an idea that may sound a little out-there but really works:  celery root frites!  These are really quick and easy, and roast up tender on the inside and even a bit crispy on the outside, especially if you

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Wondering what to do with that celery root that came in your CSA farm box? Here is an idea that may sound a little out-there but really works:  celery root frites!  These are really quick and easy, and roast up tender on the inside and even a bit crispy on the outside, especially if you

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Chicken liver mousse

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A recent inventory of my freezer revealed a significant number of chicken livers, the result of my inability to waste anything that can be later turned into something yummy!  To explain, each time I buy a whole chicken, the carcass, heart and gizzards all go into stock.  Chicken livers, on the other hand, are no

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A recent inventory of my freezer revealed a significant number of chicken livers, the result of my inability to waste anything that can be later turned into something yummy!  To explain, each time I buy a whole chicken, the carcass, heart and gizzards all go into stock.  Chicken livers, on the other hand, are no

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Savory Dishes

Yogurt Curry with cauliflower and crispy tofu

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This recipe, featuring the snap of yogurt, is inspired by a recipe from the excellent Vancouver BC restaurant Vig’s.  The very simple curry sauce works well also with chickpeas, diced sweet potato or winter squash, and also makes a great accompaniment to a poached whitefish filet, like cod or halibut. Serves 4

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This recipe, featuring the snap of yogurt, is inspired by a recipe from the excellent Vancouver BC restaurant Vig’s.  The very simple curry sauce works well also with chickpeas, diced sweet potato or winter squash, and also makes a great accompaniment to a poached whitefish filet, like cod or halibut. Serves 4

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Creamy polenta

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In his book “The Unprejudiced Palate” (which is part personal history, part practical garden and kitchen guide, part cookbook, and all a fun and interesting read), Dr. Angelo Pellegrini says that soft polenta in Italy has roughly the same relationship to pasta as brown country bread has to the baguette in France: it is what

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In his book “The Unprejudiced Palate” (which is part personal history, part practical garden and kitchen guide, part cookbook, and all a fun and interesting read), Dr. Angelo Pellegrini says that soft polenta in Italy has roughly the same relationship to pasta as brown country bread has to the baguette in France: it is what

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Whole skin-on pork shank roasted with leeks and cauliflower.

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  I was recently in Segovia, Spain, where we enjoyed the local specialty, roasted suckling pig…crackling, mahogany colored skin on the outside and meltingly tender meat on the inside. Yum!  However, getting hold of a sucking pig is not the easiest  thing for most people. So instead, here is a recipe for roast whole pork

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  I was recently in Segovia, Spain, where we enjoyed the local specialty, roasted suckling pig…crackling, mahogany colored skin on the outside and meltingly tender meat on the inside. Yum!  However, getting hold of a sucking pig is not the easiest  thing for most people. So instead, here is a recipe for roast whole pork

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Recipes | Soups

Garbure Béarnaise

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For the second anniversary party at O Panier Local, we made a community-sized pot of garbure to offer to our friends and neighbors.  Like all good soups, we started our garbure the day before the fête, and let it simmer slowly for hours.  Yummy! If you are not familiar with garbure, it is an emblematic

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For the second anniversary party at O Panier Local, we made a community-sized pot of garbure to offer to our friends and neighbors.  Like all good soups, we started our garbure the day before the fête, and let it simmer slowly for hours.  Yummy! If you are not familiar with garbure, it is an emblematic

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Dried hot chilies

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As I mentioned in an earlier post, we grew habanero and jalapeño chilies this year, with some success.  That makes sense, given that we are only about 30 minutes from the area where piment d’Espelette is grown.  We planted six plants, three of each kind, in a part of our garden that not only gets

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As I mentioned in an earlier post, we grew habanero and jalapeño chilies this year, with some success.  That makes sense, given that we are only about 30 minutes from the area where piment d’Espelette is grown.  We planted six plants, three of each kind, in a part of our garden that not only gets

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