Making and using preserved lemon.
Have you ever been traveling and marveled at some new food or product that you swear you’ve never seen at home? (A writer smarter than I called this phenomenon amnesic product recollection.) During our winter trip …
Have you ever been traveling and marveled at some new food or product that you swear you’ve never seen at home? (A writer smarter than I called this phenomenon amnesic product recollection.) During our winter trip …
Spotted today: a row of cherry trees (edit: plum trees; they’re botanically related, in the Prunus family, though plums bloom first) in bloom up the street; they began showing color practically overnight (definitively within the past …
I call it the 10 AM Growlies—that rumble you get in your belly midmorning when breakfast has worn off. The best prevention I’ve found for the 10 AM Growlies is a bowl of oatmeal—it keeps me …
A recent comment asking for dimensions of the coldframe that Rob and I (OK, Rob) built for our garden prompted me to dig up the plans we used to construct it two seasons ago. The coldframe …
On this first day of spring, we mark a few other seasonal firsts this weekend: The “soft” opening of our beloved Side Porch—I washed down the furniture and arranged it in place. Cushions, rugs and candles …
Today marks Day 1 of our 2011 vegetable garden: We set out the coldframe. Rob built it for me two years ago at this time, and it has performed admirably over two early growing seasons, creating …
We have a Williams-Sonoma Collection cookbook (you know, one of those slim, almost square volumes they’ve published for years) devoted to risotto. We’ve had this since about 1996, and it is thoroughly abused: spine cracked, pages …

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