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It’s About Time: Nashoba Brook Bakery
by Susan on July 31, 2010 in Adventures, Photos, Restaurants
By now it’s not news: I love bread. A lot. And I’m lucky enough to live in the Boston area, home to several top-notch artisanal bakeries, so it’s way too easy to indulge. For some reason, and maybe somewhat appropriately, I took my time to try the bread from Concord (Mass.)-based Nashoba Brook Bakery, and am now making up for lost time. I seem to have internalized the philosophy embodied by the slow-rise bread movement, judging by how long it’s taken me to pull this fairly short post together.
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Just a Bowl of Cherries
by Eileen Glanton Loftus on July 30, 2010 in Breakfast, Photos, Recipes
It’s no secret that oatmeal is hot. A major favorite of food bloggers, oatmeal is healthy, wholesome, cheap, and easy to customize. You can add fruit, nuts, syrup, even treats like chocolate chips, in combinations sure to please anyone at your breakfast table.
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Voodoo Doughnut Helps Keep Portland Weird
by Matt on June 10, 2010 in Adventures, Photos, Restaurants
They looked skeptically at me. “Matt, we’re really going to wait in this line?” We were standing outside Portland, Oregon’s original Voodoo Doughnut Shop (there are two now), located right near the city’s waterfront park on Southwest 3rd Avenue. And, of course, the answer to their question was “yes.” Maybe I’m a little too quick to pat myself on the back, but I have experience with high traffic food venues (a frequenter of New York’s Shake Shack) and I know persistence pays.
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Fast and Furious Salmon
by Eve on June 07, 2010 in Entrees, Photos, Recipes
I’m sure I’m not the only one who is feeling burdened by this new summer heat. Nor am I the only one enticed to spend all her free time in the wonderfully cool, AC-equipped bedroom rather than in her sweaty, humid kitchen. Still, I couldn’t imagine forfeiting my time in the kitchen just over some oppressive heat. Besides, we can easily reduce the time we spend in the kitchen by making simple, healthful dishes that don’t require hours of lengthy prep or long, slow simmering to create. Hence the following dish that I whipped up for lunch yesterday. One pan, minimal prep, muy bueno!
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Sweet and Sour Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
by Anthea on June 01, 2010 in Baking, Desserts, Photos, Recipes, Special Projects
Or why I should not bake after happy hour… I am usually good at baking. You may have heard this a thousand times, but baking is science. You need to measure and mix all of the right things in the right way. If you don’t, you can just tell when things have gone horribly wrong. Killing the yeast is a good example of that, this dry pie is another one. As you can guess from above, I went to happy hour yesterday, and when I got home decided that it was now or never on the rhubarb sitting in my fridge.
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PracticallyGreen.com: Try the Weekday Veg Plan with Spring Pesto
by Guest Contributor on May 28, 2010 in Condiments, Entrees, Photos, Recipes
Long story short, Graham couldn’t face his last hamburger. But he came up with a great solution called, simply: Weekday Veg. Here he explains how he’s stuck to the plan for a year (Thank you, Maggie Fellner Hunt, foodie and smartie, for sharing this video).
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Not Your Grandma’s Banana Bread
by Eve on May 24, 2010 in Baking, Photos, Recipes, Snacks
I consider myself a skilled refrigerator forager, willing and able to make do with what its cubed confines provide me on any given lazy day. On one such day, not too long ago, I dug out a couple of overripe bananas and a half-full container of sour cream from an earlier taco feast. With the knowledge that I had some walnut halves and dried coconut lingering in my pantry, I carried out the divine will of the leftover-food gods and made this…
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The South Cycle Series. Pasqua a Lipari: Too Sweet
by Silvestro Silvestori on May 18, 2010 in Adventures, Photos
I’ve been on the island of Lipari for the last three days, resting up a bit, and passing Easter weekend in familiar surroundings. I rented a little room with a 4th-story terrace, and a kitchen, and I’ve been cooking again, with intermittent access (it’s the holy weekend) to markets and wine shops, many still peopled with the same folks I got to know when I passed four months here, almost 15 years ago.
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Seed Bendovers
by Amelia on May 17, 2010 in Condiments, Entrees, Photos, Recipes
Nowadays, my Dad is a stern man in his 60’s who enjoys fishing and reminding me to check my oil regularly, but once upon a time, in the not too distant past, he was a back-to-the-land hippie waiting out the long winters on a mountain top in Washington State. At some point during that time, he and his hand-crank food mill invented this little gem.
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No-Knead Sourdough: Season Finale! or Look Before You Leap!
by Susan on May 13, 2010 in Baking, Photos, Recipes, Reviews, Special Projects
This past winter I hopped eagerly on the no-knead bread bandwagon, and had a great time. I am a huge fan of sourdough bread—the really sour kind that’s also chewy with a nice crunchy crust, and here was a relatively easy way to get that level of sour with the crunch. And since I was pretty new to bread baking, the entry-level skill set required for this method had me at hello. What could possibly go wrong?
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