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CHAMOMILE MINT COLD BREW I went to Vermont and all I got was nine bunches of fresh herbs. That’s not exactly true. I also returned with potatoes, beef, onions, flowers, coffee beans, zucchini, eggs, and a whole chicken. But…
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Sometimes, when the seasons switch, I crave an easy recipe for eating lighter and a method for sticking to that lighter eating. I devised this recipe for 5-Minute Wake-Me-Up Breakfast Bowls for both of us, to bring on spring in…
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Growing up in a household that’s part Italian-American, I fell hard and fast for ricotta cheese. It was added to every pasta dish, spread on toast, and mixed into big bowls of tomato-broth based soups. If it wasn’t in your…
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The two most reliable ingredients in my pantry are beans and rice. And, in turn, the two most reliable recipes are these Two Recipes for Beans from Scratch. The variety of beans or style of rice doesn’t matter, and hasn’t really…
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I’ve been waiting for this moment. I signed my contract with my publisher in the early part of 2017. After almost two years of hard work and the ups and the downs of life, A New Way to Food is…
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I’ve been big all my life. I was chubby as a big-little kid. I was plump and overly developed as a teen. And through my twenties and thirties, I was definitely obese. As if being big all my life wasn’t…
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Stracciatella is a long Italian word that means to shred. In this case, we’re making a 10-Minute Green Stracciatella Soup, which is a shredded egg-drop style soup that’s flavored with pesto. I don’t know how you feel about pesto but…
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Everything changed when we “discovered” panzanella. Suddenly salad could have chunks of bread and the definition of “greens” began to shift to include all manner of decidedly non-leafy fruit and vegetables. A classic tomato-mozz-basil-and-ciabatta became our go-to potluck offering and…
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Little loud birds wake me as early as 4am these days. There’s pink honeysuckle blooming out back, though not the culinary kind which is a sweet shame. The lower shelf of my fridge is stocked with about three pounds of rhubarb…
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As many of you know, I am a wee bit obsessed with pickled products (my recipes for Pickled Ginger Peaches and Pickled Brussels Sprouts may give it away). If I had to choose, however, just one pickled ingredient above all others, I would pick the…
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