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Filed under: Wine, Vegetables, Recipes, How To, America, Spirits, Summer If you're a friend of mine, I'm sorry, but I'm about to spoil your Christmas present. You're getting my homemade corncob wine. Now get that look off your face -- it's actually pretty darned tasty, and if you don't believe me, at least trust the palates of James Beard Award ...

Filed under: Vegetables, Recipes, Newspapers, SummerGrocery store bins are still overflowing with fresh sweet corn, its silky hair littering the tile floors like pine needles, so you might as well get as much as you can, while you can. The New York Times has a good story on stretching late summer corn, with an especially awesome-looking recipe for ...

Filed under: Vegetables, Recipes, Fruit, How To, Spirits, Liquor Cabinet, Liqueurs, SummerA couple of weeks ago, I wrote a review of Vlada, a New York bar that specializes in infused vodkas. As I mentioned in my post, my experiences at Vlada had made me nostalgic for the moonshine that I had once enjoyed in Southwest Virginia. Back in the day, I ...

Filed under: Recipes, Lists, Slashfood Ate, SummerIf your kitchen gets as hot as mine, cooking during the summer can become incredibly oppressive. It's this time of the year when I explore the many delicious meals I can prepare that do not involve cooking. In the beginning of June, fellow blogger Marisa McClellan wrote a post about a no-cook ...

Filed under: Teas, Whisky, Recipes, Fruit, America, Spirits, Ingredient Spotlight, Guilty Pleasures, Summer Over the past few summers, cherry-based cocktails have become something of a signature for me, to the point whereupon being proposed to in mid-July a few years back, I immediately began pulping and freezing cherries for use in our wedding ...

Filed under: Teas, Dessert, Recipes, Leftovers , America, Comfort Food, Non-alcoholic, Guilty Pleasures, SummerKind little rituals seem to go a long way toward making marriage work, so almost every weekend, I make my husband some sweet tea. He's a Southern boy by birth (Brooklynian by marriage), and having a big ol' pitcher easily grabbable in the ...

Filed under: Recipes, Soups/Salads, Summer One of the dishes I look forward to making when summer rolls around is the tomato salad you see above. It's nothing particularly special, just some chopped tomato (I use whatever I have on hand that is ripe, this time it was a bunch of sweet grape tomatoes) tossed with some roughly minced onion (I like ...

Filed under: Recipes, How To, Slashfood Ate, Summer Ah, the sweet floral aroma and the spicy tang of a sherry wine vinegar! This summer, when craving fresh green crunchy lettuce, I think of drizzling vinaigrette made with sherry wine vinegar all over it. Sherry wine vinegar, called vinagre de Jerez in Spain, is aged in a similar way to balsamic ...

Filed under: Recipes, Soups/Salads, Summer One of the dishes I look forward to making when summer rolls around is the tomato salad you see above. It's nothing particularly special, just some chopped tomato (I use whatever I have on hand that is ripe, this time it was a bunch of sweet grape tomatoes) tossed with some roughly minced onion (I like ...

Filed under: Beef, Poultry, Recipes, Pork, Barbecuing, Lists, Grilling, America, Meat, Holidays, Summer The Grand Rapids Press has a list of several dozen beef, chicken vegetable and fish tips for your Independence Day bash. Try wrapping fish in prosciutto or bacon to prevent drying. And cook snapper and other delicate fish in foil or on a plank ...