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Knitting a Life · 8M ago

Using Famers’ Market Bounty for Baking

During the summer I look forward to the weekend for a lot of reasons.  This weekend, in addition to my weekly visit to the local Farmers’ Market, I found time to do a little baking. I’ve posted about baking biscotti here before, but today I am working on a new recipe, inspired by the incredible Amis
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Knitting a Life · 9M ago

Eggplant with Chickpeas and Tomatoes

My new favorite part of the New York Times is Martha Rose Shulman’s weekly recipe column, Recipes for Health.  Every week she posts delicious, easy and tasty recipes using fresh and seasonal ingredients and every week I am drawn in once again. A few weeks ago she posted a recipe for eggplant and chi
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Knitting a Life · 9M ago

Cauliflower puree — a lighter dip for your chips

Still on vacation and now taking advantage of what’s in the farmer’s market here on the island.  Among other things at the market this past Saturday was some beautiful cauliflower — one of those vegetables that people either love or hate. I’ve found that if you roast it, even former cauliflower-phob
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Knitting a Life · 10M ago

Fresh fruit salsa

We’re away on vacation, but of course that doesn’t mean we aren’t cooking. We’ve rented a small cottage on an island and one of the main selling points was the “fully equipped gourmet kitchen.” While the collection of pots and pans doesn’t provide us with the usual variety of cooking utensils we hav
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Knitting a Life · 10M ago

The best roast zucchini. Ever.

It’s here.  That part of the summer when the piles of zucchini start getting bigger and when (at least in the midwest) you have to be careful to lock your car so that no one can leave a bag of garden-fresh zucchini on the front seat. At least that’s the joke they tell.  Funny thing [...]
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Knitting a Life · 1Y ago

Kim Boyce’s Oatmeal Sandwich Bread

It’s not on the James Beard Foundation website yet, but it’s official, Kim Boyce has won the JBF award for Best Baking and Dessert Cookbook with her wonderful 2010 book Good to the Grain: Baking with Whole-grain Flours. To celebrate that fact — and to express my delight that she has relocated to Por
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Knitting a Life · 1Y ago

Spring Crab Salad

Spring seems to have finally arrived here in Portland.  And it’s about time!  I feel as if it’s been months since I saw the sun, even though I know that it has peeked out for as long as a few hours at a time in the past few weeks. Tomorrow it’s supposed to be sunny [...]
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Knitting a Life · 1Y ago

Inspiration

My sister-in-law Karen is frequently the person who inspires me in the kitchen.  (She’s also the person who inspired me to start this blog.)  Her kitchen is a spacious, family-friendly spot and the food that she creates is always tasty, and even really good for you.  I’ve spent many happy hours ther
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Knitting a Life · 1Y ago

Inspired

My sister-in-law Karen is frequently the person who inspires me in the kitchen.  (She’s also the person who inspired me to start this blog.)  Her kitchen is a spacious, family-friendly spot and the food that she creates is always tasty, and even really good for you.  I’ve spent many happy hours ther
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Knitting a Life · 1Y ago

Heide Swanson’s Brown Butter Spice Cake (sort of)

One of the things I do to get inspired to post on my own blog is read other blogs, especially food and knitting related blogs.  I have a few favorites (some of them are listed in the right-hand column — take a look) that I check regularly. The other day during a brief break at [...]
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