Challah Buns

I love to barbeque – there’s just something about cooking outside that really feels like summer. Especially when we’re grilling our own home-grown veggies and organic meats. My boyfriend and I buy 1/4 of a free-range grass-fed cow every year from a local farm. We keep the cuts of meat in a freezer in the…

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Elderflower Syrup

This morning was a morning for cocktails. I don’t mean I got up at 7am and started drinking. Though I might not always decline a mimosa or Bloody Mary when offered (yes, please!), I’m generally not much for the wake-and-partake. Well, OK, I’ll admit: after 10am, all bets are off. But today I wasn’t drinking…

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Summer Couscous Salad

Well, it’s officially summer now. Not only because it has FINALLY stopped raining, but because the produce I am getting from my garden and my CSA box tells me so. No, I don’t actually hear little veggie voices telling me to start canning… …well, not yet anyway. The season is young. I was away at…

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Habichuelas: Puerto Rican One-Pot Beans

Yeah, I’m one of those people who likes to talk a lot about my heritage. Why wouldn’t I, since I’m half-Puerto Rican; descended from residents of an island known for its gorgeous women, beautiful palm-speckled coastlines, and delicious food? I’ve only been to Puerto Rico once. I was 11 years old and my father took…

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Key Lime Marmalade

I never quite understood marmalade. It was one of those things the early pioneers must have made: fresh fruit was precious, the vitamins scarce, and therefore even the seemingly inedible peel had to be used in any way possible. So they’d chop it up, boil it down into a thick goop, and eat it on…

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Broccoli Chevre Gratin

I can’t believe it’s June already! I also can’t believe that we’ve only had about 3 days of real sun this season…isn’t it supposed to be summer? In the yard, the chickens have been toying with the idea of going on egg-strike until the sun comes back out, and the garden, while beautifully green, has…

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