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Fresh produce: The original fast food

May 23rd, 2007 · No Comments · Cooking for one, Food preparation, local food, recipes

Fresh produce provides the means for quickly prepared fresh food.

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Sugar snap peas sweeten vegetable plan

May 17th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Food preparation, Food selection, local food, recipes

Sugar snap peas, which make a fleeting appearance in the spring, are an easy and delicious choice for a vegetable dish.

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These cookies taste better than they look

May 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Food preparation, Food selection, recipes

Pecan Sables, a cookie from the Gourmet Cookbook, are delicious but don’t look too good. I made them in a personal challenge to create a potluck dish from things I already had in my kitchen.

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The measure of leftovers

May 11th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Food preparation

Official and unofficial rules exist for how long one can keep leftovers, as in leftover food. They range from one week or stinky, slimy, moldy (whichever comes first) to 3-4 days (official for most foods) to 1-2 days for the conservative folk.

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Tip: Roast a chicken

May 7th, 2007 · No Comments · Cooking tips, Food preparation, recipes

Roast chicken the world’s easiest main dish to make, but these days you’ll be celebrated as a marvelous cook if you put one on the table. You can read a lot of semi-complicated recipes, but essentially this is all you need to do: Buy a whole Smart Chicken. (Among its other joys, it is packaged [...]

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The cooking-convenience conundrum

April 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Food preparation, Food selection, Healthy eating

While I adore produce, and especially the locally grown variety, people hoping to improve Americans’ diets seem largely to ignore that lots of people don’t cook much any more. And until we do something about that, all the calls for more fruits and vegetables and more locally produced food are going to make only an [...]

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