Archive for Recipes
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Bottoms Up: Its A Snowy Friday and Time for Another Hot Rum Drink
Hot Buttered Rum To Go Since it's clear that winter is here to stay, and we'll never be able to drink cold drinks again, I figured I may as well give you an instant drink mix to store for the next time you need a hot toddy -- like maybe the next time the snow rises up over the tops of your sn...
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Sustainable Recipe: Salmon Puttanesca
Recipe: Sustainable Salmon Puttanesca, Ready in 15 minutes The ladies of the night, who originally made this sauce famous in Italy, knew they’d better get their dinner fixed in a hurry. There was work to be done. And so began the famous Italian Sauce made with olives, basil, tomatoes, capers...
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Happy Belated Birthday, Bobby Burns, January 23, 2011. Haggis for all.
Happy Belated Birthday, Bobby Burns, January 23, 2011 Last night I went to a gala Bobby Burns birthday party. His 215th I believe. The hosts, Jane and David Cates, throw this shindig every year, complete with much Scotch whiskey toasting, David plays the top half of the bag pipes, and Jane co...
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Sunday Cooks to get you through the work week: Recipe: Mama’s Beef Pot Roast and Roasted Root Vegetables Redux
When I was a child, my mother made pot roast for dinner every Sunday. Made in a big blue roasting pan and surrounded with carefully scraped carrots, potatoes and onions. There was no garlic (unheard of), no parsley or mushrooms (ditto), and no fancified vegetables like parsnips. It was jus...
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Bottoms Up Friday, and the damn snow is back. Again.
Bottoms Up Friday, and the damn snow is back. Again. On with the snow boots, button up the coat, out into the cold to shovel yet again. But after this ghastly deed, I’m taking my lead from Anthony Bourdain, whose new tell-all book Medium Raw, (ecco, Harper Collins 2011)about the food bu...
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recipe: Warming Winter Cannellini Soup with Kielbasa and Kale
Just the sort of soup Italian Grandmothers kept on the back burner for cold and hungry children, this is a recipe that tastes good the first day, even better the days after. Our friend Gene, served a version of this soup as the centerpiece to a dinner party that included 18 people and four hun...
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Bottoms Up Friday Comes on Thursday. Recipe: Jamaican Tea Toddy
OK. I had to go out and shovel the snow this morning, all right? It was hard work. When I came back in the house, I felt as if I'd spent an hour at the gym. Well, in fact, this kind of hard work is like a session at the gym. So, what did I do? I made myself a nice warm toddy. Yo...
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Recipe: Raspberry Smoothie + Bottoms Up Friday Cocktail: The Star Daisy.
Recipe: Raspberry Smoothie + Bottoms Up Friday Cocktail: The Star Daisy. The second in our Eat More Weigh Less series of New Year's Diet Suggestions Remember the movie, Postcards from the Edge? The daughter is just getting out of rehab,(that would be Carrie Fisher) and she walks into her m...
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Recipe: Madhur Jaffrey’s Turmeric Salmon Is Healthy and Good
One day, in Dr. Salerno's office, a beautiful Israeli woman was sitting with me in the waiting room. She told of getting a serious gash on her forehead which seemed to require stitches. But she remembered what an aged Indian nanny had done when she was a child, and that was to pack the wound with ...
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Recipe: Easy Vegetarian Soup Beginning with Nutrient Dense Pumpkin
I had to hunt and hunt for a pumpkin to make this soup for a Boxing Day party, but I finally found a couple. You could easily substitute winter squash, or, in a pinch, use canned pumpkin. But the main idea is to create a soup to make a satisfying lunch with a punched up flavor. This soup use...
