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Next Steps for the Starving, Reluctant Cook
Don’t cook? Don’t like to? Yet you have to eat. Don’t just survive on cereal or a tin of sardines. Cooking can be fun, and it doesn’t have to be complicated or mysterious. If Farmboy can do it, you can…
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Cool! Salad’s for Dinner
Believe it or not, we did not have a vegetable garden on our 400-acre farm. Fresh vegetables were out of the question. That’s why I did not grow up with a history of green salads. Other than iceberg lettuce, the…
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Trine Hahnemann: My Family’s Bean Salad
This recipe comes from Hahnemann's Scandinavian Comfort Food.
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The Potato Salad in Your DNA
It’s finally summer in the northern climes. With hot nights, who wants to work over a stove inside? It’s grilling season, and that also means potato salad. Talk to almost anyone, and you can learn about their family potato salad.…
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Solving the Jack Sprat Problem
Do you live in a Jack Sprat household? You know – Jack could eat no fat and his wife could eat no lean. I have a friend named Robin whose husband Dave is a big meat lover. She, on the…
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Somewhere, Each of Us Remembers a Memorable Meal
Somewhere in the memory banks of our taste buds resides the recollection of our most unforgettable meal — the perfect combination of sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. It doesn’t require a great degree of effort to conjure up those tastes,…
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A Guy’s Gotta Eat!
My mother was a farm wife on a 400-acre farm in northern Illinois in the 1950s. She could feed a hungry crew during the harvest and could help in the fields, when necessary. This is the environment in which she…
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Whip Up a Pavlova for a Strawberry Sensation
It’s strawberry season, and for me, that conjures up my favorite strawberry dessert: Strawberry Pavlova, an airy and elegant dessert that is deceptively easy to make. My introduction to Pavlova was happenstance. While living in Cambridge in the late 1970s,…
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Strawberries for Dinner?
Your kitchen is filled with the intoxicating scent of fresh strawberries. You just couldn’t resist picking up a couple of quarts. But you really need to make dinner. What’s a body to do? Here’s an idea that combines fresh strawberries…
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Moqueca Bahaiana (Brazilian Fish Stew)
This recipe is from Beatriz Almeida, a chef from Brazil and it's her mother's recipe. She says that it's the version from the northern region of Brazil (Bahia). I met Beatriz in New York City where she works as…
