I had a lot of work today, but I was hankering for some real food after eating (dare I admit it?) cereal for dinner last night. So I decided to turn a hunk of local grass-fed, grass-finished beef into a meatloaf. I am not famous for my meatloaf. I rarely make it, as in once [...]
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Quadrennial meatloaf suits me
February 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Food preparation, local food, recipes
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Good cooking, better mood
February 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Food preparation
This post is a brief paean to good food, well prepared and the joy it brings, especially when prepared by someone else. I was lucky to snag an unexpected invitation to dinner tonight, and I got the best meal I’ve had it some time. The menu: Chicken & fennel (with a lovely sauce flavored with [...]
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Can quick + easy = healthy in winter?
February 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Food preparation, Healthy eating, recipes
My sister was asking the other day about quick, easy and healthy recipes. This sister is a competent but largely uninterested cook who has a growing enthusiasm for eating healthful and and healthfully produced food. About three months of the year, including now, she is the chief cook at her household. The current bee in [...]
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It’s Tuscany in my kitchen
January 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Food preparation, recipes
I can at least imagine it’s Tuscany in my kitchen, having just cleaned up from a delicious dinner of Tuscan Five-Bean Soup, from Patricia Wells’s Trattoria cookbook and Tuscan Bread, from a cookbook long ago borrowed and returned. This simple bean soup is really delicious and pretty—at least until it’s cooked. See some of the [...]
Risotto makes comforting meal
January 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Cooking for one, Food preparation, recipes
It was chilly the other night, and I’d brought home some gorgeous red Swiss chard from the Merc. (The photo doesn’t do it justice.) So I pulled some chicken stock out of the freezer and proceeded to make a nice risotto with chard. Turned out I didn’t have any Parmesan, so I grated up a [...]
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Soup’s on—again
January 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Food preparation, Healthy eating, recipes
Soup of this week: Vegetable-heavy lentil soup. It’s a warming, tasty soup to counter some of that luscious toffee. I made this soup from memory, as I couldn’t find the recipe I had in mind. I don’t have a nutritional analysis, but I can promise nevertheless that it’s low cal and high fiber. Lentil soup [...]
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