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Carrot Chickpea Salad
This salad hit me out of the blue. I was just scrolling through one of my favorite blogs, 101 Cookbooks, when I spotted this yummy bowlful and suddenly realized I had all the ingredients in my kitchen,...
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Dilly Salmon
Sometimes the kitchen is a magical place. It can take an ingredient or combination of ingredients that I have never liked and transform them into something delicious that I want to eat again and again!...
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Tartar Sauce with Tilapia
It’s Friday! Let’s make fish. Okay, so I admit that tartar sauce is not terribly sexy (the name alone is a little lip-curling). And this is not a fresh, new way to present fish. I wish I could tell you...
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Curried Avocados with Mustard
The first time I made this snack, it was out of slightly morbid curiosity. It was just so weird, and there was so much going on: avocados, chilis, curry, mustard, cilantro. I thought maybe this recipe...
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Barley Risotto with Asparagus
At last, at last! Asparagus is in season! Do you know how wonderful spring is to me? Don’t get me wrong…I have a somewhat masochistic enjoyment of the gloomy gray end of winter. But I am so excited to...
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Sesame Soba Noodles
In our house, this noodle dish represents the best of all worlds. I like it because it is full of whole grains and vegetables. Dave likes it because it’s tossed in an Asian style sauce. I can’t believe...
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Spicy Black Bean Pita Pockets
Attention, all mothers of babies and toddlers! I have found you the perfect meal delivery vehicle. That’s right, the pita pocket! You can hold it in one hand, it won’t fall apart when you put it down...
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Asparagus Green Bean Salad
Right after Jake was born, a bunch of amazing friends brought us food for a few weeks to lighten our load. And thank goodness! Otherwise I am not sure we would have eaten anything except cereal,...
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Sweet Pea and Spinach Soup with Fresh Mint Cream
A few days ago, Jake and I wandered outside to drop a few things into the mailbox. My neighbor immediately came rushing over with an armful of mint, freshly snipped from her garden. (And before I made...
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Buttermilk Ranch Dressing and CSA Goodness
When I was a kid, I always ate my spinach. Want to know why? It was always smothered in ranch dressing. I think I actually may have been eating more ranch dressing than spinach, which probably doesn’t...
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CSA Week 6: Beet and Chèvre Salad
So…we’ve been getting a ton of beets from our CSA. In week 6, we also received peaches, snap peas, about a million squashes (yikes!), young broccoli, and a beautiful head of lettuce. Remember how sad I...
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Squash Ribbon Salad
Summer squash are still abundant around here! We have had lots of delicious dishes, like fresh spaghetti with shredded pattypan squash and parmesan, red curry squash and snap peas, and this light and...
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Green Pepper and Onion Stromboli
What is the difference between a stromboli, a calzone, and a pizza? At least the way I understand it, the pizza is flat (duh), the calzone is a pizza that has been folded in half and pinched together...
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Tabbouleh Pitas with Feta
Dear Great Country Farms CSA Share, I guess I owe you an apology. You were right. There is a place for cucumbers in my life. Like in tzatziki. And gazpacho. And tabbouleh, which I also hated prior to...
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CSA Week 11: Corn and Poblano Pizza
Corn! Corn! It’s here! And lo and behold, I also got a poblano in my box this week (along with several ears of corn, a watermelon, potatoes, grapes, several beautiful tomatoes, and a cucumber). It was...
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Succotash
You hear it, don’t you?… That little cartoon cat voice yelling, “Thufferin’ thuccotash!” Honestly, I always thought succotash was a nonsense word made up by Sylvester. But, as it turns out, it is a...
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CSA Week 11: Tomato Egg Cups
I got several big, beautiful tomatoes last week in my CSA box…but then I went out of town before I could use them! I was afraid they would go bad sitting on my counter, and I would return home to …...
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CSA Week 13: Salmon-Squash Kebabs
Um…do you ever get all excited about a picture of a recipe, only to read the ingredients and realize you totally misinterpreted what you saw in the picture? Yeah. I found a beautiful picture of salmon...
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CSA Week 13: Movie Ratatouille
Ode to My Mandoline Oh mandoline! How your sharp, angled blade sets my heart a-flutter. Your smooth, white surface Parallel and barely offset from that blade Eagerly waits for squashes and eggplants To...
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CSA Week 14: Roasted Tomato Buckwheat Galettes
A few weeks ago, we went to Montreal with several of my husband’s siblings. Traveling with a baby is…interesting. We had fun, but I am not too eager to fly with Jake again soon (and sorry to everyone...
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