Last night we reached into the freezer to turn a simple chicken dinner into something memorable. Under the ice cubes was a bag of heirloom Italian green beans–our favorite variety–that I harvested and froze from our garden over the summer. They’d been blanched before going into the freezer. To bring them to the dinner table, […]
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A new item showed up recently in the meat selections at our local dairy: beef short ribs. Since our dairy delivers milk, cheese and meat to our home, we considered this a great development. We love beef short ribs, especially this time of year when braising meat for a long time in the oven is […]
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It was daughter’s birthday this weekend and she requested her favorite food: steak. Normally I would seek out grassfed steak. It’s not only the most flavorful–depending on the cow, of course–but also the healthiest. Perusing the meat counter at Whole Foods, however, my eyes landed on these bone-in beauties. I can’t hardly count they number […]
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