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Sour Cherry Cake Recipes

Sour Cherry Cake recipes: Hungarian Sour Cherry Cake Recipe – Recipe for Hungarian Sour Cherry Cake or Meggyes Lepeny – sour cherry cake hungarian recipes Sour Cherry Upside Down Cake | Twice Cooked – Cooking, Eating, Politics – sour cherry

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Roasted Spiced Almonds

This is a recipe by Martha Rose Shulman as part of the Recipes for Health she did for the NY Times. We made these for a party in December 2013. They are very good. Ingredients: 3 cups (about 400 grams) almonds 2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil ( I used part butter and part oil) Salt […]

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Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Pecans

We recently bought a discarded copy of Moosewood Restaurant Cooking for Health at the annual book sale at the Central Rappahannock Regional Library.  Having some brussels sprouts it seemed  a natural to check this book for a good  recipe.  The recipe Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Pecans looked very good, especially with the addition of a dressing to put […]

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Broccoli With Onion Sauce

This recipe is taken from THE LILLY WALLACE NEW AMERICAN COOK BOOK, the 1949 edition of this classic cookbook. From the introduction, “The New American Cookbook has been planned from cover to cover with an aim and purpose not found in any other book – to provide and present the way to successful modern cooking […]

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Gaining Ground by Forrest Pritchard

Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers’ Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm A well-written story about the transformation of a farm and the people who chose to live on it from dead-end industrial farming to a sustaining natural and organically managed farm. An inspirational story and a  thoroughly enjoyable read. “We buried my father […]

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Recipe for Corn Stew with Mayonnaise, Cheese, and Chile Serrano

This recipe is from Latin American Street Food: The Best Flavors of Markets, Beaches, and Roadside Stands from Mexico to Argentina by Sandra A. Gutierrez. The book is attractive with great photos, well organized, and easy to follow. This recipe was done with corn just at the beginning of November at the farmers market in […]

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Agglomeration: online conversion audio,video,text and Washington DC’s essential eats

Agglomeration: online conversion audio,video,text and Washington DC’s essential eats Online converter – convert video, images, audio and documents for free – Easy to convert between formats. audio converter online File Conversion tools converter  Washington’s 40 most essential eats – Going Out Gurus – The Washington Post – “In this week’s Weekend section, we fully devoted […]

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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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