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weird things i like
This could be a regular feature here.Weird food combos that won’t be making the food mag circuit or showing up on any farm-to-table menu anytime soon. I think half my diet is goofball combos that are...
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One more place for pesto: SOUP!
Soupe au Pistou, a Provençal classic, is one of the greatest imaginable targets for so much of the best local produce we’re getting these days. It’s crazily simple, infinitely adaptable, totally...
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Up in the sky, it’s a…
…bird, it’s a plane, it’s…well, it’s a mushroom. And it’s a bird. Chicken-of-the-woods mushroom, to be exact. I just cooked one last night. I’d gotten it from the store, after our master forager and...
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Q: Leftover wine? A: Red Butter
Doesn’t sound as good as “Beurre Rouge”, I know, but ’tis what ’tis. Beurre Rouge is the best way I know to use up that cup or so of red wine you didn’t drink with dinner the other night, and it’s one...
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Easy eating
This week’s New York Times food section has a couple of easy things you oughta know about. One, a quick recipe for steamed-then-grilled leeks, smothered with Romesco sauce. Of course, you could make...
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Out of water? Make soup.
Yes, the following is a recipe for waterless soup. You don’t add any water, instead allowing the vegetables themselves to provide all the hydration you want. Moreover, beyond some slicing there’s...
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Gettin’ funghi
Here’s Rosemont Produce Superstar Joe Fournier with the latest local-produce exclusive, matsutakes! Get ‘em while they last, at Rosemont Munjoy Hill: $24.99/pound but you don’t need much! A match...
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Winter squash: dessert for dinner
Surely you’ve oohed and aahhed over the winter squashes we have in our stores. All local, of course. After the “don’t-those-look-amazing?” comments, though, have you bought them? More importantly, have...
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Red wine with vegetables? Try Monastrell
Another offshoot of my/Joe Appel’s Portland Press Herald wine column this week was my re-acquaintance with broccoli rabe. No, it’s not local this time of year (and damn hard to find around here even in...
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Local radishes, three ways!
Rosemont just scored radishes in bunches fresh off Belanger Farm in Lewiston. Also had some local radish sprouts. I brought both home and made the night’s appetizer, Radish Three Ways, in 5 minutes....
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