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Ethical Dining Out

Here is a report and rating of  places, national chains,  some might think of to eat out. The rating is based on how employees are treated. ROC National Diners’ Guide 2012 | Restaurant Opportunities Centers United- “WE ALL ENJOY EATING OUT.Unfortunately, the workers who cook, prepare, and serve our food suffer from poverty wages, no [...]

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Plank-Grilled Salmon With Lemon and Fennel

Very good recipe for salmon. Excellent use of all the ingredients. Plank-Grilled Salmon With Lemon and Fennel | Real Simple Recipes Here is the recipe: Ingredients1 large or 2 small cedar planks1 fennel bulb, very thinly sliced, plus 1⁄2 cup of the fronds1 lemon, very thinly sliced1 tablespoon olive oil1 2 3⁄4- to 3-pound piece [...]

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Some summer recipes, 2011

Several recipes that we came to mind and some to palate at the beginning of the summer. The New York Times -Watermelon, Tomato salad (tags: recipes watermelon tomato salad minimalist) Zesty Cilantro Lime Roasted Chicken | Food Renegade Chicken from pastured hens is split, marinated in a blend of cilantro and lime, and oven roasted [...]

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Spice shops and Bittman’s Soup Recipes

There is no real connection between these great places to get spices and Bittman’s soup recipes, except that they were found on the same day. Penzeys Spices Home Page premier spice store (tags: food spices cooking) Welcome to World Spice Merchants Spice shop in Seattle, recommended (tags: spices food cooking shopping) Mark Bittman’s Customizable Soups [...]

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Agglomeration of Food Links – Early February 2011

Each of these links comes from the New York Times. We start with one of those nutritious, delicious recipes from Marian Burross. Mark Bitman announced that he was stopping his Minimalist column for the NY Times. The upside of that was a list of his 25 favorite columns with hyperlinks to each. He also published [...]

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Butternut Squash Recipes; November 2010

Two recipes for butternut squash. I liekd the way the first turned out better than the second, but both are really good. Moroccan filo pie with butternut squash & courgette « My Salt is Maldon (tags: recipe filo butternut eggplant) Dinner Tonight: Spiced Butternut Squash, Lentil, and Goat Cheese Salad | Serious Eats : Recipes [...]

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Christine in the Kitchen

Real People Real Kitchens: St. Paul Minnesota – Shelterpop “Now more than ever, Christine spends time in the kitchen. When outside work sources started slowing down last fall, Christine, a color-consultant, visual merchandiser, and HGTV stylist, began to look inside. In her home, especially the kitchen, she found all the inspiration she needed to begin [...]

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Pizza and Charts!

How to Make Thin-Crust Focaccia Pizza | Slice Pizza Blog Looks like a really good pizza recipe (tags: pizza recipe) Chart Of The Day Everyone loves a chart (tags: marketing_data data visualization)

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Pickles – First of the season

We’ve had a great crop of cucumbers so far this year. All from 8 plants, four pickling type and four English cucumbers, bought at Doug’s Grocery in White Oak at the corner of Ringold and Brooke Roads. We’ve been eating cucumber salad all week and  I started some cucumbers for pickling yesterday. We’ll taste the [...]

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Summer squash, lavender recipes

We were going to a friend’s pot-luck party, had plenty of summer squash from our CSA, FACSAP, and the lavender was blooming in the garden. So the hunt for a summer quash or zucchini bread recipe an a lavender butter recipe was on! Here is what we came up with. We used a variation of [...]

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