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Category: Dressings
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This week, our Clark Farm CSA share included a ton of basil – basil tops, basic leaves, basil abounds at this time of year. With all the gorgeous basil in our share, I have lined up a bunch of ways to use the leaves and the tops. More on that coming soon. Tonight, I used…
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Professional Chef and cookbook author, David Tanis, writes a monthly food column for the New York Times and recently featured this colorful green bean and tomato salad in a May column about French picnic foods. Combining fresh and simple basics like just-ripe cherry tomatoes and green beans, the addition of the dressing, an amalgam of…
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Deborah Madison’s newest cookbook, In my kitchen is full of terrific vegetarian (and vegan) recipes. I’ve been a Deborah Madison cooking fan since Vegetarian cooking for everyone, and this book is, in my opinion, a great follow-up. Sadly, I had never heard of Romesco sauce until this cookbook and a roasted cauliflower recipe calling for it.…
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While I can make a decent vinaigrette and a passable tahini dressing, I haven’t strayed far from the standards as far as gussy-ing up salads. This, it turns out, has been an error of omission. We eat some form of salad nearly every night, so branching out to new tastes was long overdue. This dressing…
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Adapted from: Spitalnick, A. (editor). “This Just In… Bing Cherries”. Vegetarian Times. (Vol.37, No. 6). July/August 2011. p 16. My Comment: Growing up in the mid-west, I don’t remember much about Bing cherries; my cheery cherry memory is pitting sour cherries (by the pound) so my Mother could freeze them. Sweet cherries were Queen Annes.…
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