tomatoes

campfire cooking 101 :: chili con carne

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We recently took a back-woods camping trip.  We were hoping for more of a back-country experience, but it was decidedly much more back-woods. Our adventure took place in the Nez Perce National Forest at a location in which we were lead to believe was more remote and secluded than it truly was.  The lack of [...]

{meatless monday} farro for a pharaoh salad recipe

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Get it, Pharaoh or farro?! (yes, I know, I’m geeky.) I’ve been searching high and low for this raved about grain that seems to be so elusive.  I was not about to plonk down 10-20 smakeroos for a mail order of a “lowly grain”.  Finally I found some in the bulk section of the local [...]

baked papaya from Charles Thompson of 100Miles.com

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Wondering where capers come from? It is not from papayas, that is for sure. Thank heavens I jumped at the chance to attend the International Food Blogger Conference (IFBC), May 2009 in Seattle.  Besides getting the most amazing goodie bag I met some of the greatest people.  One of those that I was luckiest to [...]

warm salsa, shortcut confessions and a fish taco

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What shortcuts do you keep in the pantry?  With all this recent talk of the Food Revolution and cooking from scratch I do have a confession to make.  I do use some prepared foods.  I am not ashamed about it, it is still better than a drive through.  There are those days when soccer or [...]

scallops and sungold cherry tomatoes

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Usually by the middle of September we would have had a hard frost. This summer is an exception, and I am very thankful. I have a very hard time changing from summer to fall. I think fall is nice, but summer is so short that I really don’t relish the idea of fall looming on [...]

5 minute tomato soup, this is not a joke

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School is out for summer! Yippee. Well, so far anyway. Monday was a cool day, thunderstorms and rain. I asked the boys what they would like for lunch, they responded with soup. Looking through the pantry I could find all kinds of things to make soup, but I wanted something faster and easier. To my [...]

ultimate one pot meal

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This is the best fast weeknight dinner full of nutritional variety. It can be whipped up in less than a half hour easy. Another plus, the ingredients are easy to have in your pantry. Sausage or other meat in the freezer or leftover meat from a meal earlier in the week, most everything else should [...]

Chilaquiles [chee-lah-KEE-lehs] mmm

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Chilaquiles is a Mexican dish created out of the necessity to use up stale tortillas and left over meats and vegetables. I think that it is the ultimate one dish meal for leftovers that I know of. It goes over well at our house. I have made a few different varieties of chilaquiles before I [...]

Speedy Spaghetti & Meatballs

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I know what you are thinking, meatballs are not speedy. They are something you might make if you were feeling very ambitious and had a lot of time on your hands. Well, not true. I made this dinner in a half hour. Yep, that makes it a 30 minute meal. I am sure that Ms. [...]

what to do with all those roasted tomatoes

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Here are some of the things that I have found to do with the tomatoes, except, of course, the tomato sauce from the previous blog entry. stack them in a jar and add extra-virgin olive oil to cover. Add to anything, the end of a fork works for me. Then again I also adore them [...]

Roasted Cherry Tomatoes

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I have a butt load of cherry tomatoes. Cherry tomatoes that are no longer at their peak, they seems to be making a turn for the worse. Actually I am getting tired of them, I am longing for something larger than a cherry or grape size tomato. So, what to do? I think that a [...]

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