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I love the farmer’s market and I’m lucky to live in a town with a great one. It’s such fun to bike downtown and spend a leisurely morning browsing through all the fresh produce and wonderful specialty artisan foods offered by the vendors. All that beautiful food is a treat for the eyes as well [...]

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It’s hot. The last thing I want to do is heat up the kitchen, or eat a big plate of steaming food. At times like this, I know the perfect food — gazpacho! It’s cool and delicious and absolutely positively guilt-free. Like anything, it’s best made with fresh-from-the-garden produce and herbs, but I often am [...]

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Meatloaf is classic midwestern comfort food, one of America’s favorite dishes. I’ve heard it said that one should never eat anyone’s meatloaf except your mother’s. But, then again, not every mother makes great meatloaf. My mom made perfectly serviceable meatloaf, but the recipe is lost to posterity, which never seemed like a great tragedy, honestly. [...]

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Lemon Bars, two ways

Lemon bars are a classic cookie, and often show up at bake sales and coffee shops. But I am frequently disappointed, and perhaps because I’ve been spoiled. Too often, I’ve bit into one, hoping for that contrast of sweet and sour, creamy and crisp, only to get a mouthful of limp and pasty. Yuck. In [...]

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Lamb has become our “go-to” meat when company is coming for dinner.  It’s tasty, it’s local, and it’s a bit uncommon. In fact, most of our guests either have never had lamb, or are a bit wary. Sometimes they have bad memories of dried out lamb with gooey mint jelly, or maybe they’re thinking of [...]

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“Enough with the sweets already!,” you’re saying.  I understand. It’s time for dinner, and you’re wondering what I’ve got in the light, nutritious and flavorful category. Well, fear not.  I’ve got just the thing — baked tilapia over nutty brown rice, black beans, pineapple and salsa.  How’s that?  You’re welcome. Adapted from Ingrid Hoffmann Ingredients: [...]

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I’m not a fan of food that tries to be something it’s not.  For example, I never appreciated tofu hot dogs and tofurkey at Thanksgiving.  There are whole strains of vegetarianism that adopt this approach, I know, but they leave me cold.  You can eat wonderful vegetarian foods, delicious and satisfying in every way, without [...]

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