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Roasted Grapes with Saba
Typically, this time of year finds me waxing poetic (like so many of us) about pumpkin. Ah, I really do love me some pumpkin, it’s true. However, this year, I’ve stumbled upon a new autumn produce...
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Brussels Sprouts with Bacon and Hazelnuts
Brussels sprouts and bacon – or, heck, any hearty greens and bacon – is a dish that we eat so regularly that when it came time to write it in recipe form, I began totally overthinking it. Not that...
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Tiny Farmhouse Friday: Our First Litter of Gloucestershire Old Spots Pigs
Starting a pig farm is an awful lot like starting a family, only, you know, with less concern with affection between the partners. Though I do think that Zeke is rather smitten with Prudence and...
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Cinnamon-Roasted Butternut Squash with Dried Cranberries
Nearly every holiday, I show up with some variation on orzo salad. At Easter, there are peas, asparagus, and goat cheese, at Christmas, I’ll arrive with a version containing sundried tomatoes,...
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Sweet Beet-Poppy Seed Cupcakes
Or muffins. We could leave the frosting off and call them muffins. Either way, you may get some strange looks when you start advertising that you’re making beet baked goods. Sweet ones, no less. On...
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Maple-Roasted Fennel and Pears
Oh, woe is fennel. Not enough people are enamored of her, and as such, not enough people know her charms. Yes, I did just assign a sex to fennel, though, as finocchio in Italian, I guess it’s already...
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Roasted Parsnips with Honey and Raisins
You know those times when you’re so busy overthinking something that you just can’t get out of your own way? That’s how it was with this dish. I had made this dish and made this dish in the most...
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Planting Daffodil Bulbs
Daffodils are the tenth wedding anniversary flower, so, this year, on our tenth wedding anniversary (who are we to buck tradition?), we ordered 100 daffodil bulbs to fill out the very unkempt garden...
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Crème Fraiche Mashed Parsnips with Panko Breadcrumb Topping
Earlier today, I stopped by the offices of a magazine that I write for from time to time. A couple of weeks ago, I had prepared a full holiday meal for a story (recipes were also provided, of course),...
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Pear-Ginger Chutney
There is a cranberry bog down the street from our house – a number of cranberry bogs, in fact – and I do love watching the autumn progression of the bogs turning bright red, followed by a flurry of...
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Leftover Turkey and Wild Rice Soup
another thing that chases away post-holiday sadness is apple crisp. see it there in the background? Thanks, Mom. Oh, what a letdown the Sunday following Thanksgiving is. The best holiday of the year is...
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Orange-Honey Shrimp with Broccoli
Holy smokes. Ever have one of those weeks where you’re pretty well convinced you’re going to come down with scurvy? Or, if not scurvy, some other vitamin deficiency that has befallen you because...
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Roasted Cauliflower with Hazelnuts and Gorgonzola
And orange. Let’s not forget the orange. So, really, it’s roasted cauliflower with hazelnuts, Gorgonzola, and orange. Because we need more orange in our diet at this time of year. I am starting to...
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Feast of the Seven Fishes: Clams Casino
Our Christmas Eve celebrations were always of a red sauce sort. Not surprising, given that my Nana owned an Italian-American restaurant – not a Calabrian restaurant, not a Tuscan restaurant, not a...
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the gift of cookbooks
Is anyone else in a last-minute gift-getting panic? Or is it just me? Every year, I say that I’m going to get a jump on the gift buying – you know, before Thanksgiving – and each year, the only gifts...
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Mushroom, Bacon, and Potato Frittata
For most of this year, we’ve been experiencing a bit of an egg drought. We’ve had hens since 2004, replacing them as needed – some have been lost to old age, others to neighborhood critters – chicken...
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Orange-Maple Chicken Drumsticks with Orange-Gorgonzola Dipping Sauce
Football is a great excuse for all-day snacking, which JR and I definitely partake of once the weather changes from lovely, golden autumn warmth to the why-do-we-live-here-again cold. It must be the...
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Blood Orange-Ricotta Coffee Cake
This coffee cake has been many weeks in the works, tested first before Christmas using Navel oranges, then after the New Year as I worked on my restraint as it related to the crumb topping. It seems...
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Vegetarian Stuffed Mushrooms with Roasted Cauliflower and Chives
Come Big Game time, there are plenty of meaty treats available: chicken wings, burgers and their diminutive slider cousins, hotdogs, meatballs and sausage, pulled pork, barbecue spare ribs, beef stew,...
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Blood Orange and Goat Cheese Salad
The citrus craving that I succumbed to months ago – following an overload of starch, gravy, and meat around Thanksgiving – continues. My new favorite lunch is this blood orange and goat cheese salad,...
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