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Tomatoes: Eat ‘Em While You Can

In mid-September, just a few days before the autumnal equinox, the days are getting noticeably shorter and the sunlight is transitioning from blazing to soft. This is perhaps the best time to eat fresh, ripe…

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Posted by: on Monday, September 19th, 2011
Categories: Guidance | | 1 Comment »

Garbage Gazpacho

The half-used tomato, still perfectly serviceable, sat alongside a cucumber of similar status in the “rot drawer” of the fridge. In summer, I tend to overbuy at the farmers’ markets just because…

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Posted by: on Friday, August 12th, 2011
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An Ode to the Swirl Mixer

I’m not much for kitchen gadgets. Please, I don’t need a quesadilla maker, or a frozen pop maker or any other ‘-maker.’ I like simple tools that function well. Like the swirl mixer. My grandmother and mother both…

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Posted by: on Friday, July 29th, 2011
Categories: Meditations | | 1 Comment »

Summer Vegetable Stir-Frys

We typically associate stir-fry cookery with Asian foods, but it’s a really versatile method. And now that summer vegetables are hitting our farmers’ markets all over the Midwest, we’ve been fixated on…

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Posted by: on Thursday, July 21st, 2011
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Perfect Little Summer Cocktail

I grossly overshot when I purchased the fruit to make homemade blueberry jam last weekend. Pauvre moi. So I asked Rob to come up with a blueberry-infused summer cocktail suitable for the oh-so-typical, hot-and-muggy,…

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Posted by: on Friday, July 8th, 2011
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Move over, Mozzarella

It’s really cool when your life’s path happens to cross someone else’s, and you make an interesting connection. That path-crossing led me here, to Foodists, as a new contributor. Long story short: A mutual…

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Posted by: on Thursday, June 30th, 2011
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