Category: Food
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Christmas Lima bean, fennel, and sausage stew
Read more…: Christmas Lima bean, fennel, and sausage stewThis week I planned on making some green lentils in mujadara for my weekly bean dish, but with the blizzard, we needed some hearty stew. I found this recipe in the Rancho Gordo Heirloom Bean Guide. On the blizzard: Just before eating this, I measured 11 inches of snow. We have at least 3 more…
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Habanero harvest 2025 sauce
Read more…: Habanero harvest 2025 sauceLife was busy in late September/early October when the habaneros in our garden ripened, and I didn’t have the gumption to make a batch of hot sauce out of them. Charlie and I bagged them up and froze them instead. We ended up with ~60 orange and red habanero peppers, about twice as many as…
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Chili with Vaquero beans
Read more…: Chili with Vaquero beansThis week’s bean dish was chili with vaquero beans. My original plan for this week was a lentil dish, but after rummaging around in the basement freezer, I realized we had tomatoes, tomato paste, and beef, so a nice hearty bowl of chili came to mind. Perfect for today’s snowstorm, which dropped four inches of…
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Cassoulet bean gratin
Read more…: Cassoulet bean gratinThis week’s bean dish was a gratin made with cassoulet beans, fennel bulb, onion, garlic, thyme, and breadcrumbs. Recipe from Rancho Gordo, which I’m sure you read about in the WSJ this weekend. Amanda and I both loved it. Charlie wouldn’t try it, but he was very curious about what fennel bulb is, how beans…
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Cauliflower with cassoulet beans and capers
Read more…: Cauliflower with cassoulet beans and capersThis week’s bean dish was cauliflower with cassoulet beans and capers. I really enjoyed the smoky tanginess that the sherry vinegar + smoked paprika added to the dish. I served this as our main side with a pork tenderloin. This was tasty enough to make again, but probably not going into the standard rotation. I’ll…
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Weekly Beans
Read more…: Weekly BeansOne of the things I want to do in 2026 is to cook more beans. It occurred to me a few nights ago that I should try to make at least one bean dish each week. I started on January 2 with a chicken, wild rice, and black eyed pea soup. Here are some more…
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Weekly Veggie CSA Ideas Posts
Read more…: Weekly Veggie CSA Ideas PostsBack in 2017 and 2018 I wrote about how I planned to use the veggies in our weekly CSA. Writing these weekly posts helped me come up with dinner plans and helped me get out of ruts of repeatedly making the same things, so I’m doing it again this year. You can follow along over…
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Wineberry Flaugnarde
Read more…: Wineberry FlaugnardeNew post over at Cook Like Chuck:
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Cronuts (Finally)
Read more…: Cronuts (Finally)After watching the Cronut craze and wanting to try one for the last few years, I finally decided to go get some. I work from home and set my own hours, so why not? I preordered them two weeks ago, worked late night on a project, and took the morning to go pick some up…
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Cooking Rice
Read more…: Cooking RiceI got a tip today from a Persian chef about cooking rice the Persian way: After it boils for a few minutes, drain and rinse it. Then put it back in the pot for 25 minutes. You get a nice crispy layer at the bottom and rice that is completely separated, not gummy.