Up until now, you couldn’t pay me to eat a raw beet. Cooked beets, I love. But to me, raw beets smell like the earth. The earth smells like dirt. So I’ve only assumed that raw beets taste awful, yet I’ve never actually tried them. Meet Chioggia beet; the hypnotizing,…
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watermelon ice
This was supposed to be called frozen watermelon slice, not ice. I had this brilliant idea of making frozen watermelon slices. I would scoop out the flesh, purée it, and freeze the juice in its shell. When slightly thawed, I would cut into slices. We would eat them like popsicles…
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chickpea panzanella
Have you ever had a kitchen sink salad? This line up includes chickpeas, cherry tomatoes, bread chunks, feta, lemon zest, basil and celery leaves (my new favorite ingredient by the way). It’s dressed with lemon juice and lots of good olive oil. So basically it’s a big bread salad with…
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blackberry nectarine tart
My little ones are master berry pickers. We spent the day at Patti’s Berries & Bunches and they somehow managed to clean the place out. I have hundreds of juicy blackberries to use up. I’ve also been trying to master a flaky, all-butter pie crust so I decided to marry the…
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old school tomato salad
Everyone knows someone who makes the best (insert recipe here…) For me, my Grandpa makes the best tomato salad. His ingredients are simple- juicy sun-ripened tomatoes, shaved onions & celery, oregano, olive oil and salt. I thought about updating his tomato salad (because that’s what us young people do) and quickly…
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