Salmon with Lime Butter Sauce, Summer Tomato Salad, and Quinoa and Kidney Beans

October 6, 2009

Summer’s over, but no one told my tomato plants. After a cool August and September, our tomatoes are finally ripe and in abundance. I feel like every year I struggle to use up our tomato harvest only to plant more tomato plants the following year. This year, in addition to our CSA tomatoes and backyard […]

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Unstuffed Sweet and Sour Cabbage and Cranberry Oatmeal White Chocolate Chunk Cookies

October 5, 2009

Cranberry oatmeal white chocolate cookies are one of my favorite cookies. They’re buttery, not too sweet, and stay softer than your average chocolate chip cookie. The dried cranberries in the cookies tie in nicely with the dried cranberries in this unstuffed version of stuffed cabbage. Stuffed cabbage (cabbage rolls) is one of those dishes that […]

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Sauerkraut and Sausage Paprikash with Mashed Potatoes

October 4, 2009

When I was in college in Madison, Wisconsin, every now and then I’d head off with some friends on a Saturday to the small town of New Glarus (a.k.a. America’s Little Switzerland, pop. 2,111), about 30 miles from Madison. Our first stop was always to the Maple Leaf Cheese and Chocolate Haus, where I’d get […]

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Pork Chops with Maple Syrup and Balsamic Vinegar with Roasted Squash, Mashed Potatoes and Apple Cornmeal Cake

October 3, 2009

I was reading an article recently in the New York Times about signature dishes in restaurants, which was more or less lamenting the fact that popular dishes need to be made ad infinitum to keep customers happy. It reminded me of a recipe for Smokies in The Eden Cookbook, where the introduction to the recipe […]

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Chili Fried Mackerel with Spiced Chickpea Salad and Polenta

October 2, 2009

About two years ago, my husband, daughter and I went to Copenhagen for a long weekend. Our daughter was two and a half at the time, but already was a great eater. Put her in front of a selection of ice cream, and she won’t choose chocolate or vanilla — she’ll go for Turkish delight […]

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Linguini with Braised Kale and Parmesan Garlic Bread

October 1, 2009

Greens seem to be the outcasts of the vegetable world, like the shy kids parents have to coax their own children into playing with. Why is this? Sure, spinach is common enough, but why don’t Swiss chard or kale feature more, especially considering how pretty rainbow chard is, or even kale, with its frilly-edged leaves […]

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Chicken Marbella

September 30, 2009

I hadn’t heard of Shelia Lukins or her gourmet food shop, The Silver Palate, until she passed away last month. Then she was all over the news on food blogs, most of which couldn’t mention her without also mentioning Chicken Marbella, her most famous recipe. After reading all the rave reviews of it, I was […]

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Autumn Fish Stew and Date Nut Spice Bread

September 29, 2009

If I had to pick one smell that evokes my childhood, it would be potpourri. When I was growing up, my mom was into the country style of decorating, and me and my brother and sister got dragged around to the shops that sell that kind of stuff on the weekends. Those stores invariably reeked […]

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