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First We Eat

then we do everything else.
-M.F.K. Fisher

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Full of Potential
Top: Trimmed and quartered artichokes in acidulated water, waiting to be slow roasted and served with a yogurt mustard sauce. 
Bottom: Gluten-free crepe batter waiting to be filled with cheese, lettuce and avocado. 

Full of Potential

Top: Trimmed and quartered artichokes in acidulated water, waiting to be slow roasted and served with a yogurt mustard sauce. 

Bottom: Gluten-free crepe batter waiting to be filled with cheese, lettuce and avocado. 

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Let There Be Lunch
Peanut butter and strawberry sandwich. Popcorn with raisins, pistachios and chocolate chips. Radishes. Apple. 

Let There Be Lunch

Peanut butter and strawberry sandwich. Popcorn with raisins, pistachios and chocolate chips. Radishes. Apple. 

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Gluten-Free Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
My current favorite cookies. I did cut back on the sugar by about 1/4 to 1/3 of a cup. For a delicious nut-free version, omit the walnuts and use sunflower butter.  Recipe here. I like mine with an added 1/2 c of raisins for extra chewiness.
Thanks to my mom for making them first!

Gluten-Free Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies

My current favorite cookies. I did cut back on the sugar by about 1/4 to 1/3 of a cup. For a delicious nut-free version, omit the walnuts and use sunflower butter.  Recipe here. I like mine with an added 1/2 c of raisins for extra chewiness.

Thanks to my mom for making them first!

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weeheartfood:



sparkling grapefruit sangria


Soon: The sun will come back, and I will have sangria! Who’s with me? 

weeheartfood:

sparkling grapefruit sangria

Soon: The sun will come back, and I will have sangria! Who’s with me? 

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‘Ucker Cake
Carrot cake with honey cream cheese frosting. Topped with candied carrots. Kid wouldn’t even try them until I told her they taste like suckers. 
” ‘Ucker? More!” 

‘Ucker Cake

Carrot cake with honey cream cheese frosting. Topped with candied carrots. Kid wouldn’t even try them until I told her they taste like suckers. 

” ‘Ucker? More!” 

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Thundersnow Marmalade

Sounds like a character from Warriors, doesn’t it? I’ve been using up the very last of my frozen fruits and veggies from last year, and buying up exciting bits of produce like Meyer Lemons that are hitting my store shelves. I’m ready for Spring. So ready! But what do I have instead? THUNDERSNOW. Yes, that’s a thing!

Fortunately, I just made this marmalade with my last strawberries and the aforementioned lemons. (Do you see the reflection in that jar. That is snow. In mid-April.)

Thundersnow Marmalade: It’s a fine corrective for the weather’s psychotic episodes. 

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wildcritterfarms:

You are what you eat

Amen!

wildcritterfarms:

You are what you eat

Amen!

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murrayscheese:

huffposttaste:

huffpostarts:

Toast Art! 

From sfmoma

YES. This is what we’re talking about, guys.

these are brilliant.

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I’ll never forget M. describing the McDonald’s Chicken Nugget process to me in the late 80s. It was the beginning of the end of my relationship with fast food. Now we can buy the same thing in the freezer aisle. 

Ick!

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http://authoritynutrition.com/11-biggest-lies-of-mainstream-nutrition/

ALL. OF. THIS.

Support your local chicken: eat an egg. 

http://authoritynutrition.com/11-biggest-lies-of-mainstream-nutrition/

ALL. OF. THIS.

Support your local chicken: eat an egg. 

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A Little Market Research

Let’s say that you’re a busy parent. You have a family to feed, and you’re interested in eating whole, real, healthful food. What would be the most helpful thing? 

A premade alternative to school lunches? 

Premade adult lunches?

Premade or easy-prep dinners? 

Meal plans with recipes and shopping lists?

All of the above?

Something else?

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murrayscheese:

cheesenotes:

Every now and then I’ll see someone proposing the question: Are the French really that much better at this whole cheese thing? “Sure” — they might say — “they used to be the masters of the cheese world, but American cheese culture sure has caught up!”

Not to belittle the American cheese scene — which, lord knows, has made an astonishing evolutionary leap in the last two decades, in both the Mongering and Making spheres — but lay your eyes upon these amazing, sometimes gravity-defying, cheese boards, created at the Concours National Des Fromagers and understand that while we might now be swimming in the Olympic pool, France is still the Michael Phelps of the field.

In an interesting twist, the winning Fromager was Matt Feroze (check out his blog, or on Twitter @MattFeroze), a british monger working for the great French affineur Hervé Mons, at Fromagerie Mons in Lyons, since 2012, who won with a cheese board built around the theme of the Moon, whether in cheeses that are sculpted to resemble the moon or in cheeses that resemble it in their natural form, e.g. Fourme de Montbrison, Mimolette, Selles-Sur-Cher.

All of the boards are visually ravishing and conceptually clever though, and worth checking out.

From the site SoCheese.fr (in French, sorry I’m feeling too lazy to translate right now):

Retour sur les 16 plateaux réalisés lors du Championnat de France des fromagers, fin janvier 2013, à Lyon.

Le Champion de France des fromagers 2013 est… un Anglais ! Mathieu Moolan Feroze a remporté, le 27 janvier, à Lyon, dans le cadre du Salon mondial de la restauration et de l’Hôtellerie (Sirha 2013) le Concours national des fromagers, fondé il y a quinze ans par l’organisme qui fédère les crémiers-fromagers, la FNDPL, et organisé par son Syndicat Rhône-Alpes.

L’épreuve a mis en compétition 16 jeunes candidats et s’est jouée sur quatre épreuves : découpe et emballage, connaissances et savoir-faire, dégustation à l’aveugle, mais surtout réalisation d’un plateau de fromages à partir de 25 produits, dont 10 AOP imposées. Grande nouveauté cette année, le support du plateau était le même pour tous, et dévoilé aux candidats à la dernière minute.

Le vainqueur, Mathieu Moolan Feroze, 31 ans, vit en France depuis deux ans. Il est fromager salarié depuis le début de l’année 2012 à la fromagerie Fromagerie Mons, sous les Halles de Lyon). Son plateau, sobre et aux découpes très nettes, joue à la fois sur les hauteurs et sur le thème récurrent de la lune, qu’elle soit sculptée ou gravée dans les fromages (fourme Montbrison, selles-sur-cher, mimolette…)

Deuxième sur le podium, Laëtitia Burgat-Charvillon (Fromagerie Gay, à Annecy), 36 ans, est fromagère depuis 1999. Elle a conçu un plateau fleuri, appétissant, avec de nombreux fromages prêts à piquer ou à déguster à la cuillère.

La ville d’Annecy est décidément bien représentée, puisque c’est là aussi que travaille la troisième lauréate, Myriam Bilbault, salariée chez Alain Michel à la Crémerie du Lac. A 23 ans, elle est titulaire d’un CQP. Son plateau “rêveur” mise sur les équilibres, avec notamment un saint-nectaire en forme de lune et une boulette d’Avesnes destructurée.

Check out the full article here, and cheers to Matt Feroze for his victory! 

SLOW CLAP FOR FRANCE, YALL.

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Persimmon Chut-e-ney 
If you love ‘really any type of chut-e-ney’, then you’ll love this sweet and savory combination from Marissa MacClellan. (Recipe inside this digital magazine.) People often are confounded by persimmons. This is a great way to try them out. 
Plop on top of blue cheese and a biscotti cracker for a perfect holiday appetizer. 

Persimmon Chut-e-ney 

If you love ‘really any type of chut-e-ney’, then you’ll love this sweet and savory combination from Marissa MacClellan. (Recipe inside this digital magazine.) People often are confounded by persimmons. This is a great way to try them out. 

Plop on top of blue cheese and a biscotti cracker for a perfect holiday appetizer. 

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