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What’s for Breakfast

March 5th, 2014 · No Comments · breakfast

I love leftovers for breakfast. Italian sausage rope and cauliflower were dinner the night before. They’re easy to re-heat. I just added three of our home-grown, pastured fried eggs. We are eating lots of brassicas this time of year: broccoli, Brussels sprouts, collards, kale and cauliflower all spring to mind. My favorite preparation for cauliflower […]

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Five-hour Baked Shad–Really?

April 30th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Recipes

We spent a weekend at a friend’s place in the Virginia countryside recently where the menu for a birthday dinner featured shad baked for five hours. Doesn’t everyone cook shad for their birthday? Well, it wasn’t our idea. But I was intrigued, first because I’ve never eaten shad before, and second because I’d never heard […]

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Kids Make Roasted Vegetable Canapes

March 11th, 2011 · No Comments · kids, Recipes

Every Mediterranean culture seems to have some sort of treatment combining onion, eggplant and bell pepper. In France it’s called ratatouille. Others call it tapenade. In Spain, they serve a tapas dish made of roasted vegetables tossed with olive oil, thyme and parsley. I found a recipe calling for this aromatic mix to be spooned […]

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