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Are These the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies?

Posted in Baking, Cooking, Food Adventures, For Fun on March 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »

What is it about a chocolate chip cookie that drives us to try recipe after recipe, forever pursuing chocolate chip perfection?
Whatever it is, the May/June (yes, that’s right, May/June) issue of Cooks’ Illustrated includes a tweaked version of the classic Toll House Cookie recipe that immediately caught my eye in my search for Shangri-La.
I shoudl say [...]

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Check out NH Maple Weekend!

Posted in Around the Lakes Region, Food Adventures, For Fun, Local Food, eat local, maple sugar, seasonal eating on March 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »

 
Last year around this time, I did a post about how pothole season means maple syrup season around these parts.  You can check that out if you’d like more information about the nuts-and-bolts of maple sugaring (in NH, sugar is a verb!).  
Meanwhile, though, if you live in or around NH, I’d encourage you to [...]

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Dark Days Update: Wherein I pay no attention to deadlines!

Posted in Cooking, Dark Days Eat Local Challenge, Local Food, eat local, seasonal eating on March 11, 2009 | 10 Comments »

I’m not sure what’s going on this winter with the old blog here.  I have limited motivation for posting, but we really are eating very well from our freezer and pantry.  It’s this time of year that I really feel good about all that work I did over the summer and fall to can and [...]

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Southern California: What I did on my February Vacation

Posted in Travel on March 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

While I endeavored to find lots of local spring foods in Southern California, I didn’t get to a farmer’s market at all.  I did check out a few great Latin supermarkets and stocked up on cool spice blends.  And, we passed by this sign

and stopped for some fresh berries grown just feet from the stand. [...]

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Dark Days: Ham & Beans

Posted in Cooking, Dark Days Eat Local Challenge, Local Food, eat local, seasonal eating on March 5, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Returning from the warm, sunny West Coast to another 8 inch snowstorm was not pleasant.  
Having a snow day to simmer ham and beans on the stove, was quite pleasant!  Although, I do realize that some of you are now able to get things like strawberries and asparagus and green stuff, oh my!  

From here: [...]

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