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Quick Chicken Fricassee with Olives and Broken Cherry Tomatoes

by Laura 26 March 2011

This quick chicken fricassee is a perfect lazy night’s cook up. Boneless, skinless chicken thighs are rich and ready quickly, and the sauce is three simple ingredients: white wine, briny olives, and the best cherry tomatoes you can find. By the time they simmer down to a pan sauce, the chicken thighs are fall-apart tender [...]

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Lamb Stew

by Laura 17 March 2011

The birds returned to Minnesota two weeks ago, on a day when the temperature was negative one. They are the first harbingers of spring for me, when the world still feels impossibly cold for birds, and it’s hard to imagine little green blades rising through the frozen earth. Now their twitter tweet-tweet-tweet is a morning [...]

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Homemade Yogurt with Winter Citrus Syrup

by Laura 10 March 2011

I’m thinking this morning about long lost books. My books. I have what is perhaps a peculiar emotional attachment to them. And I wish they could return home to their places, still waiting, on my bookshelves. Some of the books, I know, are well cared for and will return someday after their long excursions. The [...]

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Homemade Cultured Butter Pressed with a Hand-carved Butter Mold

by Laura 1 March 2011

My Norwegian grandfather had something of a love affair with butter; he loved a pool in which to cook an egg or some hash, or a thick smear on toast. But mostly, it was his tableside companion at every home-cooked dinner I can remember eating with him, and he was not shy with it. A [...]

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Tuxedo Salad: Black Beluga Lentils, Black Trumpet Mushrooms, & Creamy White Shepherd’s Way Farms’ Shepherd’s Hope Cheese

by Laura 24 February 2011

When I walked past these little black beluga lentils the other day, they put me in mind of caviar. They were just around the corner from some fresh black trumpet mushrooms. And I had a wedge of lush Shepherd’s Hope artisan sheep milk cheese at home. So into my little head popped the idea for [...]

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Creamy Parsnip, Celeriac, & Turnip Soup

by Laura 21 February 2011

Today is my Dear Husband’s birthday. We have been sweet for each other since August of 1985, and married for almost 22 years. He still melts my butter. Happy Birthday, my dear one. My post recipe today isn’t very celebratory; we celebrated this weekend. But this little soup is one of the most elegant and [...]

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An Old-fashioned Minnesota Blizzard & Rich Hot Chocolate for Two

by Laura 20 February 2011

After a taste of spring, we are in the midst of another good old-fashioned Minnesota blizzard. I love a blizzard. Here in Minnesota, snowfalls come and stay for the winter every year, but a real pileup, one that sends people en masse to the markets and shops the day before it’s to hit, is always [...]

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Hand-pulled Cotton Candy

by Laura 19 February 2011

I stumbled on a photograph of pişhmaniye on the Honest Fare blog this week and had to make it. My niece Elisabeth was coming to spend the morning with me yesterday, so we added it to the list of projects for the day. She liked making smoothies, chocolate cookies, coconut macaroons, waffle fries, and Reubens, [...]

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Confetti Chili

by Laura 15 February 2011

When I was in college, before college dining halls were paeans to choice, we waited in line to greet the food service ladies as they dished up whatever they had cooked that day. We had dishes like Side of Clyde, Ziti Bake, and Party Rice. Whenever that particular fare was served, my best friend would [...]

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