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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: Recipes, Soups/Salads You ever have one of those days when you're not sure what you want to have to eat? You're trying to decide between pizza or maybe pasta or maybe go the healthy route and have a salad. Well, now you don't have to decide. This recipe for Pizza Pasta Salad has everything: you have your penne pasta, your tomatoes, ...

Filed under: Recipes, Comfort Food, Soups/Salads Is there something wrong with me that I like the weather we're having here today? It's rainy and sleety (if that's a word), raw, and cold, and I just love it. I'll take this weather over a sunny, 85 degree July day any day of the week. But we do need some things to help us get through these days, ...

Filed under: Vegetables, Recipes, Fruit, Raves & Reviews, On the Blogs, Lists, Super Bowl XLII If there's one thing I would bet my last paycheck on as making an appearance at every Super Bowl party this weekend, it's chips and salsa. Not only is it possibly the easiest thing to ''serve'' because you only have to rip open a bag of tortilla ...

One of the side effects of having a food blog is that I get lots of e-mail. Food e-mail. Bread e-mail. For a bread baking foodie, there's nothing better than finding a note like this in your in box: It occurred to me that you might be interested in trying this bread. We tried making tomato basil whole wheat sourdough last week with tomatoes (as ...

Making A Memory Even Tastier When I was a kid, one of the things we often did while on vacation was to go on factory tours. Except for a few, like the Volkswagon factory in Germany, these places usually manufactured or processed some sort of food. To this day, details from those visits make up some of my clearest childhood memories. There was, ...

Making A Memory Even Tastier When I was a kid, one of the things we often did while on vacation was to go on factory tours. Except for a few, like the Volkswagon factory in Germany, these places usually manufactured or processed some sort of food. To this day, details from those visits make up some of my clearest childhood memories. There was, ...

Filed under: Vegetables, Recipes, Fruit, On the Blogs When I talked to my mom yesterday, she had just finished picking the last of the tomatoes off the plants in the backyard. The weather in Portland has made the seasonal shift from Summer to Fall (unlike here in Philly where it is still gorgeous and warm, with only a hint of autumnal crispness) ...

One Of My Favorite Ways To Celebrate Tomato Season You'll find the recipe (if you can call something so simple a recipe) over In My Kitchen Garden, along with a little bit about my Less Fuss, More Flavor kitchen philosophy. You didn't know I tend a kitchen garden blog? And it's not just for gardeners either. Click here to find out why. Thanks ...

Filed under: Restaurants, Television/Film, On the Blogs If you are a Mario Batali fan who is starting to twitch and suffer from signs of withdrawal due to the fact that your favorite orange-shod chef won't be around to inspire and entertain you on the Food Network, fear not! He is now writing a regular column over at that bastion of online food ...