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Roasted Chicken, Ramps and Potatoes

June 1, 2008
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This is the *perfect* ramp meal. To my mind, absolutely perfect. Nothing too fancy, nothing to get in the way or overpower any of the individual flavors, but each part, each ingredient, each step just all adds together to make this one of the most delicious meals you will ever have. And a complete one […]

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Veal Sausages with Zucchini

May 16, 2008
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Need an easy dish to serve with those Ramp Biscuits? You know, one which won’t make you run out of time and end up with the Green Ramp Biscuits….*smile* Well, this is one easy, spring-y, meal to serve up without a fuss—Veal Sausages and Zucchini.

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Green Ramp Biscuits

May 6, 2008
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I’m not sure if the picture does it justice—but those are some GREEN biscuits. As in: not just “Happy St. Patrick’s Day-Green”, but I’m dressed up in sparkly green glasses and wearing a metallic shamrock t-shirt to the New York City’s right-down-the-center-of-Fifth-Avenue St. Patrick’s Day parade -green. Yes, that green!

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Sign of Spring

April 9, 2008
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This is one of my favorite signs of spring: a salad of freshly picked wild dandelions–mixed only with a chopped hard boiled egg, olive oil, garlic salt and freshly ground pepper. The dandelions are a bit peppery and bitter and the oil mixes with some of the egg yolk, cloaking the leaves in an almost […]

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Mascarpone and Herb Stuffed Roast Chicken

March 6, 2008
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I’m not usually one to use mascarpone in savoury dishes. Not for any reason in particular, actually….I think it’s that I just tend to use other cheeses more ‘naturally’…..combined with the fact that I usually buy mascarpone only when I’m intending to use it right away (and most likely in tiramisu) so it’s not something […]

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