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On Cashews
November 28th, 2011by Caroline This quiet week after Thanksgiving and before the happy rush of Christmas events begins, Lisa and I are collating and copyediting the final manuscript of this anthology to submit to Shambhala. I haven’t read some of the essays in a while, and I love reading them all together, one after the other, and [...]
Deconstructed Minestrone or, Beans & Greens
November 23rd, 2011by Caroline The other day, this is what I pulled out of my CSA share: It was bigger than my head. The slip of paper in the box told me that it’s Pan de Zucchero, and that I could treat it like escarole or chard or any cooking green. So without giving it much thought [...]
Igloo Meatloaf
November 22nd, 2011By Lisa Last week, when I made this chive meatloaf, I made double. I rolled and froze the second batch, and took it out last night for a quick dinner. I baked it in our convection oven on the self-timer early in the day, around 3 pm. But I also had mashed potatoes left over, [...]
In Which the Husband Saves the Day
November 18th, 2011by Caroline I had a little meltdown the other day. It had been a day in which various bad things and mistakes piled up, and when my kind, dinner-cooking husband asked if I wanted a stir fry for dinner, I didn’t take it well. We’ve been eating a lot of stir fry lately, but that [...]
Walnuts
November 17th, 2011By Lisa One of the contributors to our book, which is just a few weeks away from being sent to the publisher (!), is Jeff Gordinier. He’s written for a lot of places, but these days he makes his home at the Dining Section of the New York Times. He recently sent me a link [...]
Applesauce Cake with Caramel Glaze
November 9th, 2011by Caroline Glaze. Glaze is one of those words that makes me try a recipe, and the combination here of “caramel” + “glaze” got me, even though it is really just one small component of that recipe. But this glaze is so good I might just start making it to spread on things other than [...]
Roasted Cauliflower with Chard, Chickpeas and Dukkah
November 7th, 2011by Caroline Chard and cauliflower are two of my family’s favorite winter vegetables, but I’d never thought to combine them in one dish, nor to add chickpeas to make it a really hearty vegetarian dish (this would be a great way to keep your favorite vegetarians and vegans happy at Thanksgiving). Plus the dukkah is [...]
Halloween
November 1st, 2011by Lisa Aside from the costumes and the chocolate, we have a one rock solid Halloween tradition. Every year, we pick popcorn at Ardenwood Farm, and then the kids package it in treat bags, with a few candy corn & directions for drying and popping. It’s a lot of corn to pick and carry, and [...]
Butternut Squash & Hominy Stew
October 31st, 2011by Caroline This is absolutely not a recipe I would make just for my family, since my kids are at the stage when stews and other cooked food mixtures don’t appeal to them at all (although they will happily eat their own weird combinations of food, if they make them themselves). But, this recipe arrived [...]
Big Brother in the Cafeteria
October 26th, 2011by Caroline Yesterday, I came across the news that an elementary school in San Antonio has instituted a new program of photographing bar coded student lunch trays to track what the students eat: A computer program then analyzes the photos to identify every piece of food on the plate — right down to how many [...]