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Huevos Rancheros with Ranchero Sauce
I cooked up some Ranchero Sauce, roughly following a recipe in The Well-Filled Tortilla Cookbook. It was wonderful to go pick the tomatoes and chilies for this! It would go well on all kinds of things but was absolutely delicious on the eggs. I also stirred some into the black beans. As it was cooking, …
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Preserving the Bounty of the Garden
The garden is coming in strong finally now that we have some hot weather. It’s been a wacky year weather wise here. My pickling cucumbers are not giving me as much fruit as in past years, but still enough to play with some pickles. I’ve dried various summer squash. That’s a new one for me.…
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Zucchini Refrigerator Pickles
I’m trying a new zucchini refrigerator pickle this year. Last year I made these zucchini refrigerator pickles. I remember liking them but getting a bit tired of them and I gave a quart to a friend. Her family loved them! Today I saw The Urban Homestead Experiment’s post on Refrigerator Green Pepper Pickles and decided…
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Jamie Oliver’s Salmon Tikka with Garlic & Nutmeg Rice
I’ve always been taken with the idea of cooking my way through an entire cookbook, long before Julie and Julia. Reading Jamie Oliver’s newsletter I saw that this woman Amy had cooked her way through his Revolution cookbook, which I love. I have talked about having some sort of cooking party to do his “teach…
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Basic Frittata and Marinated Zucchini
Two recipes from the Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home book tonight for dinner. The first was a marinated zucchini recipe. I’ve been wanting to try a frittata for some time. Perhaps partially because my ex’s grandmother’s maiden name was Frittita. So close! If my potatoes had actually grown this year, I could have almost…