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Fast Recipes

Caprese Salad with Basil Vinaigrette

August 18, 2009
Caprese Salad Basil Vinaigrette

It’s the LAST WEEK of Summer Fest! Where did all the time go? We’re onto our final round of celebrating the garden and onto Tomatoes. If you haven’t yet heard about Summer Fest, it’s a four-week celebration of fresh-from-the-garden food: recipes, growing tips, even tricks for storing and preserving summer’s best with my co-hosts [...]

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Broccoli Beef Noodle Stir Fry

August 10, 2009
broccoli beef noodle stir fry

It’s week 3 of the Summer Fest! Last week we all made recipes using fruit from trees, and this week it’s all about Beans and Greens. If you haven’t yet heard about Summer Fest, it’s a four-week celebration of fresh-from-the-garden food: recipes, growing tips, even tricks for storing and preserving summer’s best with my [...]

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Coccante Signore: The Crispy Mister

July 29, 2009

What’s my position on meat? I love it. I crave meat and I probably eat too much of it.
that, and chocolate.
and coffee
oh yes, wine too.
To be healthier, I could give up some of the above.
But I can’t.
You’d have to pry that grilled steak from my hungry, greedy hands. There are too many reasons to keep [...]

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Cedar Planked Mussels

July 23, 2009

If I had to choose one person to come over to my home and cook for me right now, it would be Ted Reader.He’s a madman. And he even looks like one with hair tricked up in directions only possible by riding a rollercoaster with a can of AquaNet and a blow dryer.
But the [...]

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I’m a freaky-fan-stalker

July 21, 2009

A little over a year ago, I met Chef Martin Yan for the first time at a Publix Aprons event. I was so girly-giddy that I breathlessly told him that he was my “culinary superhero.”
And if that didn’t scream, “freaky-fan-stalker!” then maybe he got a clue when I got a little so close trying to [...]

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