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Raw Asparagus Salad

Raw Asparagus Salad

Asparagus is delicious cooked, but it’s also really good raw. And this time of year, when the asparagus is coming in fast, you need more than one way to cook it and eat it. I made up this recipe on Friday night when I had fresh asparagus and the perfect weather for a quick on-the-grill […]

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Foraging for Bitter Greens

Foraging for Bitter Greens

When I first met my in-laws almost 20 years ago, I thought it was a bit odd that they ate so much food that they “found” outside. I had never really been part of a foraging family…no matter how much other people confused my family with the Euell Gibbons “nuts-and-berries” crowd, in general we either […]

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Pickled Red Beet Eggs: Beautiful and Delicious

Pickled Red Beet Eggs: Beautiful and Delicious

Last week I was making Easter dinner (wait, I’ll explain!) for a photo shoot for the April Issue of Prevention magazine. They are doing a story on my upcoming book, Organic Manifesto, and wanted a real Maria’s Farm Country Kitchen holiday meal to feature in their pages. So, this being for a spring issue, I […]

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Recipe: Carrot Salad (When There’s Nothing Else in the Fridge)

Recipe: Carrot Salad (When There’s Nothing Else in the Fridge)

Sometimes you just need a fresh vegetable accompaniment to a meal, and the refrigerator is either empty or pathetically filled with rotting, shriveled produce (yes, even my fridge can look like that!). Usually, all that’s left standing at that point are the carrots. That’s exactly what happened last week, so I decided to whip up […]

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