The Washington Post’s food section is sometimes hit or miss. This weeks focus is on coffee and there are a number of good articles: Learn how to evaluate or “cup”, a cup of coffee – Link Learn how coffee beans get from the tree to your kitchen – Link Finally learn how the different DC area […]
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Farm Fresh Food: June 11th
My work has a weekly Farmer’s Market every Tuesday. There is only one farm so the selection varies a lot each week. Whatever is fresh and got picked that day, is what gets sold. The photo above is of a basket of baby squash I got. Sauted with a little butter, olive oil and salt, […]
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Food Reading: June 12th
This week’s Washington Post Food & Dining section has some interesting reading: A collection of Dinner Salad Recipes that look like that would make a great summer dinner. The hotter it gets, the less I want to turn on the stove and these recipes seem like a good solution! Tom brings us news that Black’s […]
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Spicy Green Bean Salad
Each time the summer rolls around and BBQing starts I make my favorite side dish, Spicy Green Beans. The dish balances the sweetness of the beans with a smoky, spicy sauce. It is best made with fresh green beans, they are nice and crisp, but frozen green beans can be used too. Frozen might be […]
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Cowgirl Creamery Comes To DC
Cowgirl Creamery just opened their second cheese store… and it is in Washington DC. We went to go scope it out and get some goodies! Cowgirl Creamery is among the top American cheese producers. They make award winning soft cow milk cheese. They are best known for their Mt. Tam cheese, which I have seen […]
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Good Food Reading: July 3rd
Here is what has been getting my eyeball time around the web. Ask Tom – The Post’s food critic, Tom Sietsema, confirms what I have long suspected in his weekely chat; the Food Network is no longer cool. There are some well placed jabs at the skinny Italian chica ( who annoys me greatly by […]
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Fresh Fruit Friday
I got another hall from the farm stand. Lots of good stuff week including the most excellent blueberries above! Ginger Gold Apples – A cross between a Golden Delicious and a Pippin. It is spicy sweet with a great texture. Sugar Plums! These are so sweet and juicy… They were almost ripe, after ripening they […]
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Review: OXO Mango Splitter
Mango are delicious! Preparing Mangos is a pain in the ass though. It takes a bit of work to split a mango with out hitting the seed or having a lot of waste. Luckily OXO has released a gadget to solve this pressing problem. The OXO Mango Splitter works by passing an oval shaped knife […]
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KitchenAid Pro 600 Stand Mixer Review
After much debating we finally got the KitchenAid Pro 600. It is a 6 quart mixer that can supposedly hold 14 cups of flour, and the largest mixer that KitchenAid makes. The decision was between this mixer and the Viking 7 quart mixer. The Viking mixer is the same mixer as the ones from Hamilton […]
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Sauteed Baby Zucchini
This is a great recipe for baby zucchini, which starts appearing at the very beginning of summer. It is a great way to highlight the flavor of the zucchini. The recipe is very simple, and not really specific to zucchini. Basically you cook it with butter, salt and olive oil. It is done over a […]
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