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Entries Tagged as 'beans'

Meatless Cassoulet

October 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

We catered a dinner party for a client last night and we were especially puffed up over the fact that most of the food came from our garden here in the District of Columbia about one mile from the White House. The world may be going to hell in a handbasket elsewhere, but our front […]

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Bean Novice

October 4th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

I’m not a complete neophyte where beans are concerned. This is my second year of a successful pole bean harvest. My favorite are these Italian flat beans that grow on fairly small plants but happily turn out one wave of pods after another with very little tending. There is one small issue with these beans. […]

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Pantry Soup

February 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

After months of complaining about all the stuff jammed into our too-small kitchen pantry, my wife reached the end of her patience and started re-organizing during this week’s bitter cold snap. (Really, I was just about to do it myself, I swear!) We set up a folding table in the foyer and, under threat of […]

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