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11/06/13 • SAUTÉED BRUSSELS SPROUTS

11/06/13 • SAUTÉED BRUSSELS SPROUTS From the Nov., 2013 Bon Appétit I feel like I should preface this posting with a warning that I’ve just come off the red-eye from L.A., and if the text has you scratching your head at times, that’s the reason why. The reality is, though, that my whole world is about to change, so I better get used to rolling with things for a while—functioning on less sleep, doing multiple tasks at
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06/04/13 • MARINATED SUMMER VEGETABLES

06/04/13 • MARINATED SUMMER VEGETABLES From the June, 2013 Bon Appétit It’s funny, but as much as I like eating vegetables (I do, I really do!) when it comes to selecting recipes for this site they’re just about the last thing I want to make. For one thing, my preferred method of preparation typically involves little more than steam, fresh lemon juice, and a lot of butter, which doesn’t exactly make for the most usef
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03/21/13 • ITALIAN VEGETABLE STEW

03/21/13 • ITALIAN VEGETABLE STEW Adapted from the March, 2013 Bon Appétit Last month I attended a friend’s birthday dinner, and seated to both my left and my right were vegetarians. Ten years ago I could count on one hand the number of people I knew who had eliminated meat from their diet, and now I was surrounded by them! Of course, the same scenario could just as easily have occurred in the ’90s. But the chances o
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09/20/12 • THE REAL-DEAL RATATOUILLE

 09/20/12 • THE REAL-DEAL RATATOUILLE From Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking When I was growing up in Philadelphia in the 1970s, the French/Mediterranean vegetable casserole known as ratatouille seemed to be everywhere—sort of the way kale salads or pot pies are today. Or maybe it’s just that my mom was heavy into Julia Child’s the Art of French Cooking at the time, and that particular dish quickly be
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08/30/12 • SAVORY SUMMER TART

08/30/12 • SAVORY SUMMER TART From the Sept., 2012 Elle Decor (click here to view the recipe) If you’re the sort of person who reflexively slows down whenever a roadside farm-stand comes into view, then you’ve officially entered whiplash season. That was my conclusion last weekend, anyway, as I tooled around the East End of Long Island and found my head repeatedly swiveling right, then left, then right again. Farm-st
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08/16/12 • SIMPLE CORN SALAD

08/16/12 • SIMPLE CORN SALAD From the Aug./Sept. Fine Cooking One of the questions I’m constantly asking myself when deciding what to post each week is whether a particular recipe falls within that sweet spot that will make it either so ridiculously easy that you don’t need me to tell you about it, or so complex that you’ll immediately dismiss it as unrealistic. This recipe for corn salad falls squarely in the former
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05/31/12 • SPRING’S GREEN HEART

05/31/12 • SPRING’S GREEN HEART From Canal House Cooking, Vol. No. 3 (Winter and Spring) I fear I’m a little late with this one. After all, Memorial Day has already come and gone, and even if the calendar still says “spring” for another three weeks or so, in most people’s minds it’s already summer. But before you get distracted by that display of corn at your local farmer’s market, let me call your attention ov
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05/17/12 • A CASE FOR ASPARAGUS

05/17/12 • A CASE FOR ASPARAGUS From the May, 2012 Bon Appetit (click here to view the recipe) For weeks I’ve been looking for a way to feature asparagus on these pages, in large part because nothing says “spring!” like those emerald green spears with the purple-y tips (and yes, also because I simply felt like eating them). The problem was that while the vegetable may find its way into my kitchen with some consistenc
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04/19/12 • VEGGIE CURRY IN A HURRY!

04/19/12 • VEGGIE CURRY IN A HURRY! From America’s Test Kitchen As you’ve all figured out by now, I have a natural inclination for anything in the animal fat or carbohydrate department (see the previous three postings for further confirmation: coconut cake anyone?)! Still, even a guy like me who can happily tear into a wedge of Gouda and a bag of crackers and call it dinner sometimes hits a wall — a wall on whi
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03/15/12 • KALE AND HEARTY

03/15/12 • KALE AND HEARTY From the Nov., 2011 Bon Appetit (click here to view the recipe) Several weeks ago, in my posting for French chocolate cake, I promised to return soon with something healthier and less guilt-inducing — “a kale salad or some such,” were, I believe, the words I chose to capture this as yet undiscovered healthful item. Now as you’ve probably observed from my previous nine months of recipe refle
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