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Another Take on Thanksgiving Contributions
Are you, like me, celebrating your upcoming Thanksgiving feast as a guest? Are your hosts asking you for a dish to share? That’s a great deal! True, you won’t have those heavenly aromas in your kitchen, or leftover turkey and…
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Fall Vegetables from the Farmers’ Market for Easy Dinners
Now that Labor Day weekend is over and done, it’s back to work, back to school, and back to the other events that fill our social schedules in the evening. When it comes to dinner, we’re looking for something that’s…
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Fresh Ideas for Early Spring Vegetables
After months of dining on stews, braises, roasts, and other rib-sticking meals with potatoes, parsnips, and winter squash, the arrival of spring heralds a whole new crop of fresh vegetables. Here in New England, in addition to the early-spring salad…
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Down in Jamaica
Now that the days are getting warmer, we can start to think about outdoor grilling. One of the favorite grill recipes in this house is Jamaican jerk. We served our own homemade jerk chicken at our wedding (although we had…
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Pulling Up Free Veggies
When I was growing up on the farm, weeds were the enemy. A noxious-weed commissioner would regularly patrol the area, perusing fields to make sure that none of those offending weeds were going to seed and multiplying. Offending farmers were…
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Bright, Light Spring Vegetable Soups
We still have cold nights, but spring is clearly on the cusp, and Daylight Savings Time is upon us. It’s just the right time to be making spring soups. They’re lighter – mostly broth and possibly milk – and filled…
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Swweeeeet! Fall Vegetables
From your email, please click on the title to view the photos and comment online. On the Website, you can read past blogs, search for recipes, and browse. Some time in the next few weeks, we can expect to…
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Better with Bacon
From your email, please click on the title to view the photos and comment online. On the Website, you can read past blogs, search for recipes, and browse. Where’s all that bacon going? The average American eats 18 pounds of…
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A New Take on “Sea” Food
To view the photos and comment online from your email, please click on the title. How would you like to discover something that’s a great source of vitamins and minerals, contains a variety of antioxidants, and provides fiber and polysaccharides…
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Spring Soups from the Garden
My friend Greg, who has been gardening for more than 30 years, knows his vegetables, and he loves spring soups. His huge garden here in northeast Massachusetts has already offered up soup ingredients – kale and asparagus, and greens for…
