Not to worry. This isn’t a story about canning, but how to make a delicious hors d’oeuvre out of eggplant by packing it away for a few weeks under olive oil with garlic, basil and red pepper. This particular recipe is one of the all-time most popular on my personal blog, The Slow Cook. I […]
We don’t use fancy electric cooking gadgets in our food appreciation classes because I want kids to know what it feels like to make food by hand. You might say our stone age approach to food preparation is a bit behind the times. But I think kids learn more about food when they see, feel […]
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Every once in a while you have to go through the pantry to see what’s in there. Things tend to pile up and sit for years unused. So last night, rather than trudge through heat and humidity to make a market trip for dinner, I dove into the canned goods. The result: a terrific ragu […]
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