July 2010
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rosemary.
Today I slept in (until a glorious 9am), and took a walk around the neighborhood to visit a humongous rosemary bush that grows between the road and the sidewalk a few blocks away. Enter summer storm, enter drenched rosemary thief, enter sheepish jog back to the house with not as much rosemary as I had hoped. But it was enough.
Rosemary is one of those delicious scents that lingers. I...
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simple summer salads.
I made a few salads recently because it was so hot I couldn’t bear to cook anything at all. I still had some of the pictures and some of the leftover salads, so I thought I might share what I made with them.
A strawberry dijon vinaigrette.
A peanut butter sauce for my slaw (first picture).
Today I figured I would use up the rest of the salads and dressing (they taste better after...
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soup like my heart. black bean.
During the course of the week my refrigerator becomes a mess of leftovers, bags half-full of vegetables, and plastic containers holding the remains of a can of beans or olives (or what have you). Such is the outcome of feeding two people on the bulk that a grocery store offers. When I cook, I am cramming everything into any space or drawer that might be free so that i can pay attention to pots...
