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I loved our CSA experiment last time around (fall/winter 2007), especially because it was responsible for introducing me to the wonders of ...

Did I mention that A gave me the ice cream maker attachment for the KitchenAid mixer for my birthday last month? It took me a while to clear...

Oops. When I promised an end to the asparagus recipes yesterday , I had forgotten that I had this one waiting on deck. But I assure you, it’...

Another step in my continuing quest to collect a pasta recipe for every possible vegetable combination. Sure, I have many asparagus pasta re...

Now that you can make your own pesto (you’ve all been doing your homework from last time , right?), here’s something easy to do with it. I g...

I’ve already given you my directions for making pesto, but they’re embedded within another recipe . The other night, as I was putting togeth...

As the five-year anniversary of this blog approacheth (that’s how we used to talk in the olden days before the Internet, you know), I wonder...

From-scratch cakes aren’t hard to make, but I only seem to do it about once per year: for A’s birthday. I’m just not much of a cake fan, par...

I have a lot of good pasta recipes . Enough, in fact, to make a different pasta recipe every week for a year. So I don’t acquire new ones l...

I’m not a huge proponent of salad recipes, although I have a few of them . It’s probably the last holdover from my years as a picky eater. W...

Yum. And also, YUM. While I do like asparagus and ricotta together (I have a good recipe for penne with asparagus and ricotta that for some ...

As soon as I saw this Ina Garten recipe mentioned as an aside in an Amateur Gourmet post , I knew it would be the perfect thing to accompan...

This recipe from Jamie magazine, which I found at A Good Appetite , is basically a deconstructed version of one of my favorite Jamie Olive...

This is the perfect pasta dish for times of the year when not much exciting produce is in season, or (in my case) when you’ve been unable to...

I am in full-on spring eating mode, which means I want to eat nothing but green, lemony things all day long. So although ordinarily I wouldn...

This is as sexy as lima beans will ever get. Of the many varieties of Rancho Gordo heirloom beans I received for Christmas, the ones I wa...

This is one of my older recipes (so old, I don’t remember where I got it and can’t find it online), and apparently I don’t make it too often...

This photo doesn't begin to do justice to the majestic roasted chicken that emerged from my oven that night. But that's only because...

Two Saturdays ago, A and I were feeling under the weather and had canceled our afternoon plans in favor of lying limply around the house. Bu...

I am inordinately pleased with myself for trying this set of recipes, and even more pleased (one might say downright smug) that I pulled the...