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Cooking Meat: It Doesn’t Have To Be Tough
Comfort food season is upon us, now that autumn has arrived. When I was growing up, one of my favorite comfort meals was a braised chuck roast. Thanks to our farm that fattened 150 prime beef cattle, we had the…
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What’s So Great About Sweet and Tart?
It was the simplest of meals, but tasty and filling: grilled pork chops and peaches with a simple salad. It all starts with the chops. A good pork chop needs some fat attached. That fat not only keeps the meat…
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Grilling and Entertaining – A Labor Day of Love
I bet you’re looking forward to Labor Day Weekend – the summer’s bookend, a time to enjoy the harvest, get together with friends and family, and bid goodbye to these languid months. As for me, we’ll be entertaining my sister-in-law…
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On a Quest to Concoct the Best BBQ Sauce
I was a born carnivore, but lately I’ve found that I can do without meat in a number of meals. Usually, four or five of our weekly main meals are vegetarian, and the others include fish or chicken, not red…
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Don’t Dessert the Rhubarb!
Rhubarb season has begun. If you’re like me, you don’t necessarily choose rhubarb with all the other choices available. On the farm, we had a small patch of rhubarb when I was growing up, and my mother would occasionally dispatch…
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Making Sausage the Right Way
If only making laws were like making good sausages, we could all feel a lot better about the way our government operates. Back in the 1860s, German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck reportedly said, “Laws are like sausages. It is better…
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How Do You Like Them Apples?
It’s apple season – time for apple-picking. Sure, the pandemic has upset the applecart, and there are some restrictions, but you can still get a small group of family together for a trip to the local orchard. You probably can’t…
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Rick’s Family Plaid Hash
This Plaid Hash Recipe from Rick Howland is based on the New England Red Flannel Hash but is also known as MacGyver Meals by his kids.
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Roast Chicken with Apples and Grapes
A great recipe from Claudia Roden's The Food of Spain.
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Cowboy Beans
A great side for outdoor grilling
