Recipes

Duck + salt =  delicious! 

Duck proscuitto must be the easiest thing to make! Duck breast nestled into a bed of kosher salt, covered with a layer of salt and …
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Most people I know don’t use the greens from some of the common root vegetables, radishes, carrots, beets, turnips. They throw them away or compost them. But the greens are …
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After Thanksgiving and plenty of bacon and smoked salmon, let’s get back to basics.

This simple recipe is healthy and easy. I love these few (less than 10) ingredient dishes.

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More than 10 years ago, shortly after my divorce, my then very small daughters had spent Christmas day and dinner with their mother and her family.  I was putting together …
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It is the time of year that hearty fare beckons us to the table. It is also the traditional time of year to harvest those animals that would supply meat through …
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It’s all about balance folks. A couple days ago we had a pork feast, today – a vegan dish that brings classic fall flavors together – acorn squash, roasted chestnuts, …
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I purchased a nice slab of pork belly today to make bacon. However one side was very thick, and in order to cure evenly I trimmed it up a bit. …
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The garden is in its last phase. I’m still harvesting chard, kale and radish greens. With it as gloomy, windy and cool as it is today, I think a  soup …
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Nothing give cranberries a worse name than the tinned stuff that comes out at this time of year.  Wobbly, gloppy, insipid glop. If more time was spent in the simple …
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