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Filed under: Dinner, Soups/Salads, Summer We are having something of an unprecedented heat wave here on the East Coast (and it's not even officially summer). Yesterday it was 96 degrees and they are predicting that it will top out right around 100 degrees today (and with the humidity, that means it feels more like 105). I have a brisket in ...

Filed under: Dinner, Vegetarian, Vegetables, Recipes, Grilling All across the country, zucchini and other summer squashes are taking over garden patches. They double in size overnight, leaving home cooks pondering new ways to use them up so that their families don't say to them, ''You mean we're having squash? Again?'' The following recipe has ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, West Coast, Restaurants, Vegetarian, Vegan, Vegetables, Recipes, On the Blogs, How To, America I recently went to The Penthouse, the new restaurant at the top of The Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica. While the food was a little less than spectacular, the view of the Pacific from that high up was pretty stunning. ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Food Porn, Vegetarian, Vegetables, Nuts/seeds, Recipes, Fruit, How To, Light Food Although it is still cold in many parts of the country, temperatures here in Southern California shot up to almost summer-like highs over the past few days. The sudden heat has cause me - and many others - to turn away from hot soup and ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Vegetarian, Vegan, Vegetables, Recipes, Fruit There have been plenty of California blood oranges in the markets lately, so this is the second week in a row that I've made this very simple blood orange salad. The basic version that I make at home and usually see in restaurants includes blood oranges and thinly sliced ...