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I suspect this dish was a success. The recipe I used was a combination of recipes from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s The River Cottage Meat Book, and Nigella Lawson’s, How to be a Domestic Goddess. Fearnley-Whittingstall and Lawson are both british, and they both seem to really like steak and kidney pie. I don’t know if those [...]
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There are a handful of Portland restaurants that we’ve had our eyes on. Last year for my birthday, Beryl took me down south for a weekend of friends and food. We went to a couple restaurants, but the highlight of the weekend (outside of reconnecting with my wonderful musician friend Katie Sawicki and her partner [...]
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Until this past year, my homemade French fries had never quite hit the mark. It seems so simple, and it is very simple, but somehow, my fries never approached the divine fries that I’ve gotten at some of my favorite restaurants (the fries at Schultzy’s come to mind, for those in Seattle). They’ve been edible, [...]
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We are continuing to work our way through our crop of monster zucchinis. One of the ideas we mentioned last week was to make a lasagna where zucchini took the place of the pasta. This week we got around to trying it. Now, I love pasta–a lot–so the idea of a lasagna without the pasta [...]
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Early this spring, I begged Beryl to plant a couple warm climate plants like peppers and eggplants. She tried to convince me that ours is not a warm climate and they would probably just take up space, but I insisted that she try (I wanted to see what would happen). She eventually consented and planted [...]
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Berry season is tapering down just as corn is taking off, so this is a good time to share this recipe of fresh blueberries and roasted corn. We hope that you will like as much as we do. The richness of the salad depends on concentrating the sugar in the corn a bit, so it [...]
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Our zucchini plant continues to produce bountiful and frightfully large zucchinis, firmly securing its place as the star of the season in our garden. Yesterday as we were leaving the house for work, we noticed two monstrous zucchinis that, if we’re not mistaken, were just little babies last week. People complain about large zucchinis, but [...]
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Talley and I have not prepared a lot of Greek food, but our neighbor Pam has and every year she and my aunt Jenni host a big greek dinner at the houseboat next door. This year they made souvlaki (meat and veggies grilled on sticks – I am not at all sure what the difference [...]
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We have a very prolific zucchini plant this year. At first, we were hesitant to pick them, not wanting to waste our precious few gems without careful consideration of how they’d be used. Somewhere along the way though, Beryl discovered that if you pick them, it only encourages the plant to produce more veggies. And [...]
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