Insalata caprese with Purple Cherokee heirloom tomatoes All year I look forward to the brief period when the tomatoes are good enough to eat insalata caprese several times a week. Because it is made with only 5 …
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Got home from work at 5:30 and the block party / potluck was called for 6:00. Two crazy kids meant I had about 5 minutes to put something together, but I wasn't about to settle for bland. Last year I brought …
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White Asparagus Salad with Watercress and Romano I'm starting to test recipes for my first Herbivoracious dinner party. My first event is going to be an asparagus tasting menu, a celebration of Spring coming to the …
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Recipe: Beet Recipe: Greens with Pumpkin Seed Oil and Cherry Vinegar Devra Gartenstein over at the Quirky Gourmet got me thinking about how many good odds and ends of produce I waste with this article about how she …
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This is the salad course we did for the Kavana Men Cook event. We used a combination of arugula and mache, two very flavorful greens that have the slight bitterness to combine well with the bright citrus fruit. The …
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Chef Janine over at Cafe Flora showed me the other day how to cut sections of citrus fruit properly. Technically these are called "supremes" as in in "we need to cut grapefruit supremes". I've tried to do them before …
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