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Farro and summer vegetable salad.
When Rob and I traveled to Italy recently, we did our food shopping daily and prepared very simple dinners at home. I kept feeling like the trip was far too short to sample all the lovely ingredients...
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Spiced sun-gold tomato sauce.
I wish I could claim responsibility for this recipe; I clipped it from Bon Appetit. I drew five stars in Sharpie marker on the recipe after Rob and I made it last week. Seriously, this is the best...
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Improved summer corn and tomato pie.
This recipe for corn and tomato pie is something of a Frankenstein: a combination of three different recipes bolted together. It’s inspired by Smitten Kitchen’s tomato and corn pie recipe, combined...
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Creamy low-fat vegetable chowder.
I’ve been cooking summer’s best vegetables all kinds of different ways all season long (on pizza, in salads, in a skillet). The one thing I haven’t made—because it’s been so ridiculously hot—is...
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Roasted red pepper-tomato soup.
As I write this, my kitchen windows are fogged up and the room is scented with the warm aromas of tomato and pepper. It’s below zero outside, and I have a pot of soup on the stove. During this whipsaw...
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Roasted winter vegetable soup.
In mid-December, we traveled to Chicago to visit my favorite neighborhood bakery anywhere: Baker & Nosh in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. It just so happens that it’s owned by my brother, Bill. In...
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Most popular: Delicious broccoli-brown rice bake.
Thanks to the easy administrative tools that WordPress makes available to those of us who use its platform to create blogs and websites, I can see where visitors to my recipe website come from. (Don’t...
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Homemade ricotta gnocchi.
Like many of you, I’m sure, I have a couple of 3-ring binders full of old recipes: magazine clippings, handwritten index cards, recipes copied from long-discarded sources that I retyped on colored...
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Guacammus!
When I took my shopping basket to the counter at Madison’s at Findlay Market, Bryan Madison asked me, “Did you see the fresh English peas and fava beans and fresh garbanzos at the front of the...
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Spring pea ravioli with asparagus butter.
About 2 weeks ago, I was in New York City for the Edible Institute—a meeting of fellow editors and publishers of Edible magazines across the country, followed by a public conference of food advocates,...
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Barley salad with roasted fall vegetables.
I’ve been on a PB&J kick for lunch for the past 2 weeks or so. (While we were on vacation, a quick PB&J really satisfied, right before we headed to the beach or the golf course.) Don’t get me...
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Potato, leek and winter greens soup.
After a summer diet heavy on tomatoes, corn and zucchini, I’m finally embracing the change of seasons and a shift to cooler-weather veggies like potatoes, winter squash and onions. I suppose the chore...
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Roasted red pepper and carrot soup.
This easy recipe for healthful vegetable soup was prompted by opportunity: an abundance (still!) of red bell peppers in my garden, and a bunch of freshly dug carrots I found at Findlay Market. I tossed...
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How to make homemade vegetable stock.
Here’s the thing (two things, actually): It’s cold. And we’re all looking to eat more healthfully after being so indulgent during the holidays. Which makes homemade soup the perfect meal right now....
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Roasted tomato and fennel soup.
Following last week’s recipe for homemade vegetable stock, I wanted to share a soup recipe that you can make with your homemade veggie stock. This recipe for tomato and fennel soup has two sources of...
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Spicy roasted carrot hummus.
Recently, I picked up a package of carrot hummus with sriracha instead of my usual Sabra roasted red pepper hummus. (My preferred brand when I’m too lazy to make my own red pepper hummus.) It was...
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Broccoli and brown rice bake.
It’s cold, people! This is not news to you, of course. But the weather is making me want to stay indoors, fire up the oven and make something super comforting for dinner. Fortunately, comforting...
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Zucchini and fennel soup.
If you’ve been reading in recent months, you’ve seen a few recipes that include fennel bulb, including this recipe for tomato and fennel soup, and this apple and fennel slaw recipe. Fennel doesn’t get...
View ArticleBeautiful lentil salad with spiced vinaigrette.
I'm so in love with this gorgeous lentil salad recipe from The Findlay Market Cookbook (thanks, Joanne!). The spiced vinaigrette TOTALLY makes it sing. Lunch all week! Get the recipe! Continue reading →
View ArticleGrilled pepper and egg sandwich.
If I had one last meal on Earth, this might be it: a simple, summery grilled sandwich with bell pepper, egg, cheese. Try this recipe; you'll be grilling these babies up all summer long. Get the recipe!...
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