Warm and comforting tomato risotto.

I know, I know … risotto is just SO hard to make. Actually, it’s EASY to make at home and difficult to make in a restaurant (my opinion, certainly). Risotto is a dish that’s in regular …

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Ripening garden tomatoes.

Our long, hot summer here in the Ohio Valley continued well into November. In advance of a cold night last week that was forecast to bring a killing frost, I raided the tomato patch in the …

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How to preserve summer tomatoes.

After a long, incredibly hot and dry summer here in the Midwest, it seems like it’s only now, in late September (on the Equinox, no less) that the tomatoes are really in full swing. We’ve been …

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Summer corn and tomato pie.

There are two food-related (obsessed?) blogs that I wish I wrote: 100cookbooks.com and smittenkitchen.com. Neither fails me whenever I bookmark a recipe. So when I spotted this recipe for Tomato and Corn Pie on smittenkitchen.com earlier …

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