A food blog by Carolyn Cope
From the category archives:
A recipe for gift-worthy homemade chicken stock that really brings out the big guns, and a rhubarb syrup that comes with an incidental jam. These are just two of the wonderful pleasures that will enter your life when you learn to stop blindly following the recipe direction, “Discard solids.”
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A perfect pairing of Shiraz and homemade pizza with sopressata, fresh mozzarella, Asiago, rosemary and basil, from the new book 100 Perfect Pairings by Jill Silverman Hough. Enter to win a copy of the book.
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As a small step toward sustainability, we’ve joined Meatless Mondays. It’s been around on and off since the first World War with a resurgence in recent years, and it works just the way it sounds. We eat meatless or meat-lite many days of the week anyway, so it’s been easy. Except for the part when I added the bacon fat to Monday’s dinner. Recipe for a carbonara-style pasta dish with spring vegetables.
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Where chiles rellenos are concerned, nothing beats the real thing. But if you’d rather spend a lovely spring evening on the patio, these chiles “resemblos” are a delicious, satisfying and somewhat leaner alternative.
Everyone’s been talking about ramps (sometimes called wild leeks) for the past handful of Springs. Now the ramps themselves have a chance to weigh in, and they present a recipe for pasta with ramps, spinach and sopressata, too.
Cooking soft-shell crabs at home is really easy, promise. Sautée them and serve over a bed of greens dressed with spicy sauce.
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Recipe for homemade sushi made with fresh salmon, cucumber, avocado and an umami-rich spicy sauce. Making really good sushi at home is a lot easier than you’d think.
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Easy recipe for pasta with puttanesca sauce, an umami-rich blend of tomatoes, anchovies, capers, olives, red pepper and parmesan.
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Simple recipe for roast chicken with garlic croutons served over salad, adapted from Alice Waters’ delightful children’s cookbook Fanny at Chez Panisse.
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A healthy and delicious vegan chili made from lentils, pinto beans, bulgur and barley, and a hearty brown butter cornbread. These recipes feed a crowd and are great for a winter party buffet.
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In the Crisper on Serious Eats this week, Stracciatella alla Romana (Italian egg droup soup) with spinach. Lightning-fast, healthy recipe.
Easy recipe for cider-poached pork tenderloin with fennel, carrot and apple slaw.
Wondering what to do with leftover Thanksgiving turkey? This week in the crisper, Umami Girl goes spa-like with a healthy and delicious turkey salad with pomegranate and pistachios.
This week on Serious Eats, The Crisper Whisperer showcases a spiced cranberry chutney for your Holiday table adapted from the Williams-Sonoma Complete Entertaining Cookbook.
Easy vegetarian recipe for lasagna with acorn or other winter squash and a velvety béchamel sauce.
Healthy, easy recipe for fish en papillote (fish cooked in parchment) adapted from Martha Stewart Living in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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Recipe for a creamy, vegan gingered butternut squash soup from The Crisper Whisperer on Serious Eats.
Easy, healthy recipe for homemade apple-pear sauce to use up your aging beauties.
Easy, healthy recipe for roasted acorn squash filled with a sweet and savory farro stuffing.
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A quick, healthy and easy Escarole and Bean Soup with Pistachio Pesto with a deep flavor that belies its simplicity.
Mom’s easy, wholesome recipe for homemade applesauce to celebrate a 40th wedding anniversary.
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In this week’s Crisper Whisperer, Quick Tortilla Soup with tomatillos to accommodate your crisper’s odds and ends.
Recipe for Garlic Scape Pesto, the highest and best use of this early summer delicacy.
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Recipe for fried wild cod and local oysters over spring salad, with lemony tartar sauce dressing.
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Recipe for a homemade pizza with mushrooms and asparagus inspired by Primo restaurant in Rockland, Maine. But the pizza is the least of what Primo inspired.
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Recipe for lasagna with a velvety béchamel sauce and a deeply flavored filling of spinach and portobello mushrooms.
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A simple soup of tortellini in broth with spinach is the ultimate quick comfort food.
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A pair of recipes for a comforting winter meal: classic Baked Macaroni and Cheese and Fennel and Orange Salad.
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An Inauguration Day pizza with all the wit and charisma of President Barack Obama. Well, okay, maybe not quite all.
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A duo of fecipes for healthful, elegant veggie soups: Celery Root Soup with Pancetta and Carrot Ginger Soup.
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Remembering autumn with recipes for braised chicken with leeks, and roasted butternut squash and potatoes.
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Memories of autumns past, and a recipe for a killer Winter Squash, Mushroom and Radicchio Lasagna with bechamel sauce.
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Recipes for an umami-rich ratatouille and Pimenton Shrimp, adapted from Fine Cooking by our friend Chef Julie Hartigan.
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Quick, easy and healthy recipe for Disappearing Zucchini Orzo, adapted from the Camille Kingsolver recipe in Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.
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Recipe for Thai Red Curry with Vegetables—a kitchen-sink style recipe that accommodates the tired and worn from your crisper.
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For a recipe for Chiles Rellenos, look elsewhere. But if you want to feel great about yourself, read this.
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The recipe for Linguine with Beet-Roquefort Sauce that made me finally learn to love beets.
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When life gives you a zucchini patch that spreads to the compost heap, make Zucchini and Saffron Vichyssoise—and play baseball.
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A chilled soup of roasted tomatoes with garlic, onions and herbs makes quick work of tomatoes on the brink.
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A sweet riff on the Portuguese caldo verde, this hearty, healthy soup of kale, potatoes, white beans and chicken sausage comes together quickly and easily.
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Links to resources about green garlic, and a recipe for Basil and Green Garlic Pesto.
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A seasonal menu with recipes for Grilled Wild Alaskan Salmon, Fresh Tomato Salsa, peanutty Soba Noodle Salad and French-style Radishes.
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Link to Mark Bittman’s article on eating less meat, and why that strategy makes extra sense for CSA members.
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This sorrel and potato soup is perfect as a first course or light lunch when the days start to warm up.
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Recipe for pan-fried soft-shell crabs over mizuna, cucumber and avocado salad with Asian-style vinaigrette.
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