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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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Online dating, Internet researchers, Ethnic dining in DC; yet another collection of links; 2010-06-02

Online dating assistants help the lonely and busy (tags: online socialnetworking) Association of Internet Researchers The Association of Internet Researchers is the top international association for students and scholars in any discipline in the field of of Internet studies. Membership connects you with our vibrant community, gives you access to our archive of past conference [...]

Two recipes. One made and one to try.

Here is a recipe for Strawberry Coffee Cake, that is very close to the one I just made. It turns out to be a very delcious and satisfying cake. The second recipe is for pizza dough from the NY Times. The ‘trick’ in this one is to let the dough rise overnight. I always figured [...]

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Penne with Spring Onions, Asparagus, and Peas

This recipe is slight modification of one from  Frank Stitt’s Bottega Favorita: A Southern Chef’s Love Affair with Italian Food, another impulse check-out from our local library, CRRL. We enjoyed it and will definitely make it again. I used: 1 tablespoon organic Spanish olive oil 2 tablespoons organic butter 1 heaping cup of sliced spring [...]

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Minty Strawberry Shortcakes

This recipe is from Organic and Chic: Cakes, Cookies, and Other Sweets That Taste as Good as They Look by Sarah Magid. I checked the book out from the library on a whim. The shortcakes turned out to be very good, with mint from the garden, local strawberries, and some nice cream from a good [...]

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Giardiniera Recipe

We took Lynn’s spring break to go to New Orleans. Upon Neva’s excellent suggestion we had muffulettas at Central Grocery. That’s a really good sandwich with a topping of Central Grocery’s olive salad, which is modified giardiniera. When we came how we just had to try our hand at making our own giardinieria. We started [...]

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Sustainable Farming and Opportunites for Volunteers on Organic Farms

These links deal with sustainable and organic farming. The Cornucopia Institute is especially appealing to me because of its emphasis on pairing farms with local consumers. It is an extension of the notion of Community Supported Agriculture. We belong to FACSAP. The second link gives ways to volunteer on organic farms throughout the world. Cornucopia [...]

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Cooking dictionaries & terms

Here are two dictionaries dealing  with cooking terms. I’ve found them both useful when I come across a new term in a recipe, or a descriptive term that I want to get right. Cooking Dictionary, Glossary and Terms directory. collection of glossaries (tags: cooking definitions food glossary glossaries) A: Page 1: Cooking Terms: RecipeTips.com Glossary [...]

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