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Tomato update
My tomato plants are enormous. Also, I desperately need to weed that garden and get the Gaillardia staked up, but that will be a task for next weekend. I wasn’t expecting these tomato plants to get so...
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Caramelized Onions, Crockpot-Style
Caramelized onions are incredibly delicious. All sweet and squishy and tasting nothing like the crunchy raw onions they come from. Food chemistry in action, people! But they take a while to cook...
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Vegetables are a challenge. My husband prefers them in salads, raw and crunchy, but I get bored with having a little salad with every meal and I want to change it up with fun recipes. I had a ton of...
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What’s for Dinner – Broccoli Cheddar Quiche
Often, when accosted by a head of floppy broccoli, I sentence the limp vegetable to a soupy demise, with delicious results. Broccoli cheddar soup is a wonderful way to use up less-than-stellar...
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The Best Broccoli Ever
Broccoli has a bad reputation. President Bush (the first one) banned broccoli from Air Force One and the White House for the duration of his presidency, saying: I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t...
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Purple Potatoes
I had to buy them. A coworker and I visited a farmer’s market on our lunch break, and there they sat quietly, piled up in a basket at the far end of the table. Purple potatoes. They were smaller than...
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What’s for Dinner – Garlic Mushrooms
I had more mushrooms than I could reasonably put into a salad, and I didn’t want to go to the trouble of making stuffed mushroom caps, as yummy as those can be. Instead, I made a mushroom side dish...
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Hasselback Potatoes
I dove into my recipe bookmarks this week, because I promised myself and the Internet that I would. I needed a side to go with chicken, and I found a picture of “Hasselback potatoes” on my Pinterest...
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Recipe Bookmarks – Tomatoes done wrong
When it’s summer and tomato season, I always feel like buying up all the big (or little!) red tomatoes I see at the farmers markets. I can only use up so many in salads, though, so I’m always looking...
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Recipe Bookmarks – Tomatoes done right
Ah, that’s more like it. If cooked tomatoes are going to get all soft and squishy, then let’s put them in a pasta dish where that won’t matter! You expect tomatoes to be soft and warm and squishy in a...
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