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A Pan-Seared Burger on Salt Treats Chopped Meat Like Steak
When you’re pining to get grilling, here’s a great indoor technique for salt-seared seared burgers. What if you treated a hamburger like a steak? That’s the question that went through my head as I was...
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Homemade One Pot Pasta Alfredo for Kids and their Grownups
Using a single pot to make this easy pasta alfredo is a “winner winner pasta dinner.” Like so many of you, I’ve tried out lots of homemade one pot mac and cheese recipes on the stove top. But here’s...
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5 Steps to a Pan-Seared and Sauced Pork Chop Dinner
Learning to pan-sear meat cuts like pork chops speeds up and simplifies dinnertime. I don’t know about you, but around here weeknights have been kinda crazy. Some nights find us all eating dinner at 8...
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Liven Up Roasted Vegetables with a Rousing Vinaigrette
Dress any vegetable–like roasted potatoes–with oil + acid for alluring vegetarian mains & dramatic side dishes. I’m from Irish stock. Carroll is my middle name. So while there are good reasons to...
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Whip Your Pantry into Shape for Spring in 30 Minutes
The season has just changed–even if the weather hasn’t–so make space for spring in the kitchen cupboards. For weeks, the girls have been asking, Is it spring yet? At last I can say, “Yes!” Spring holds...
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A Homemade Spice Blend Called Za’atar & Ways to Use It
Za’atar is a wildly aromatic sesame, herb and spice mix that enlivens everything it touches–including popcorn. I love to make my own spice blends, like curry, garam marsala and pickling spices. And...
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What Makes the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie?
As a technique-driven home cook, I’m as into the “perfect” fill-in-the-blank recipe claim as anybody. It’s good click bait, but as I’m waiting for page to load, I often think, what is the perfect...
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Are You Buying the Best Eggs? Find Out in this Forage User’s Guide to Good Eggs
The other day I met a woman in the grocery store where we stood side by side scanning the overflowing options of the yogurt aisle. I felt almost dizzy trying to find organic yogurt. When I reached for...
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Freshen up Sausage Gravy with Spinach for Spring Brunch
This is the time for greens! To stuff yourself full of all the fresh, crisp and tender leaves you’ve missed all winter long. If you are lucky, your garden spinach overwintered and the first leaves are...
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Why Poach Chicken Breast? 3 Very Good Reasons & this Vietnamese Chicken Salad
{This is a post from April 2013 with updated photos and revamped recipe format. Hope you enjoy it sometime this spring with oodles of fresh herbs!} When I can’t think of what to make for dinner, I...
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A Simple Supper: Griddled Flatbread with Asparagus & Za’atar
A few weeks ago, I promised an asparagus recipe using my favorite new blend of herbs and spices, za’atar. This griddled flatbread with asparagus & za’atar is everything I want to eat on these...
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Lamb-Lentil Kibbeh Skewers with Mint Yogurt Sauce
On Sunday, I attended a town hall meeting with our state’s US senator, Ron Wyden. At the end of the very civil and orderly Q&A, he related that he is a first-generation American, son of Jewish...
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So Easy! Pickled Carrot Sticks with Ginger & Turmeric Root
Maybe you’ve never made pickles before. Or, you’re looking to expand your pickle horizons. Either way, quick pickles are the easiest and most gratifying way to start preserving foods at home while...
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5 Dos and Don’ts for Crispy Sweet Potato Oven Fries
Sweet potato oven fries are something everyone seems to agree on. They’re as irresistible as a side dish or as a snack on their own And using the oven is a handy trick to make a batch whenever the...
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Do You Have a Go-To Brownie Recipe? Here’s Mine.
I’m of the persuasion that everyone needs a go-to brownie recipe. Those fudgy squares of delight are all-occasion–and for all ages. So today, I’m sharing my beloved brownie recipe. This is a one-bowl,...
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Dinner 911: Poblano, Corn, Potato & Black Bean Burritos
I’m having one of those weeks where meetings and events collide with the dinner hour. And it means I’ve got to get on top of my meal plan for the week. How about you? This is where Dinner 911 comes in....
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Whole Food for Good Skin: An Expert Q&A and Rhubarb Face Mask
Do you scrutinize about the ingredients in your skin care products the same way you consider food ingredients? I know I’ve had a big awakening in recent years.While I’ve long subscribed to a whole...
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Going Wild For Stinging Nettle Butter
I have a fetish for wild foods. But the truth of the matter is that I’ve dreamed and written about them far more than I’ve actually foraged. More spring morel seasons have come and gone before I set...
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The Ultimate Guide to the Best Grilled Grassfed Burgers at Home
Did you know that May 28th is National Burger Day? Yeah, me neither. But that’s okay because we all know it’s Memorial Day Weekend. And that means lots of burgers on the deck. {I know you have already...
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How to Capture a Taste of Spring with Hot Garlic Asparagus Pickles
As a devoted pickler, I bring jars of pickled beets to potlucks, open dilly beans for a weeknight vegetable offering and garnish cheese and cracker plates with pickled carrot sticks. Homemade pickles...
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