Chimichurri Sauce is Mean and Green

It is a shame that parsley gets regulated to a garnish, it has so much more to offer. Chimichurri sauce helps demonstrate that, and it is fun to say. The sauce is from Argentina and is typically used on grilled meat. I have found works great on so much more than that though. The parsley […]
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Hearty Meat Lasagna

After roasting 10 pounds of second tomatoes and making soup, we used the rest of the tomatoes to make a meat sauce for lasagna. Instead of the two 28 ounce cans of tomatoes that the recipe calls for, we used about 3 pounds of roasted tomatoes.

Garlic Allioli

Garlic Allioli (Spanish Aioli) is really just a homemade garlic mayonnaise… a really tasty mayonnaise! The traditional version is made with just oil and garlic in a mortar and pestle. However that takes forever. You can make it a lost faster in a blender, or food processor. If you have a stick or immersion blender, […]
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Avocado Oil

I have finally found a local store that has Avocado oil. It turns out not to be Whole Food or Williams and Sonoma, but surprisingly my local Giant started carrying it. It is pretty expensive at $10 a bottle, but it packs a lot of flavor and should go a long way on salads. It […]
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