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Two Chickens, Many Options

By EM Posted on September 13, 2019 Posted in Recipes Tagged with abundance, appetizer, real food, slow food, soup
Two Chickens, Many Options

Hot chicken, cold chicken, gravy and pâté add up to plenty of meals to improvise later. Here’s how I do it.

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Drinking Chocolate

By EM Posted on May 28, 2019 Posted in Recipes Tagged with beverages, keto
Drinking Chocolate

In Spain, it’s not hot chocolate — it’s drinking chocolate. Encountering this sort of blew my mind, and so my quest began. The beverage I tasted in a Spanish streetside café was, as I understood it, a coffee alternative, not …

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Daily Bread: How to Bake with Sourdough

By EM Posted on April 27, 2019 Posted in Recipes Tagged with bread, fermentation, slow food
Daily Bread: How to Bake with Sourdough

How do you bake a loaf of bread using the sourdough starter you made? Well let me tell you. I named this recipe my “daily bread,” as in “give us this day,” because it’s very basic and very good. It’s …

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How to Make a Sourdough Starter

By EM Posted on March 1, 2014 Posted in Recipes Tagged with fermentation, slow food
How to Make a Sourdough Starter

I’ve never been a fan of sourdough. Until I found out that what’s called “sourdough” isn’t, in fact. When I learned what real sourdough is, I became a fan right away. The truth is, in almost every case, what’s packaged …

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Garlic, Pickled

By EM Posted on July 1, 2012 Posted in Recipes Tagged with fermentation, slow food
Garlic, Pickled

If you’re wondering why anyone would ferment garlic, let me just say a toddler will pop five in a row and ask for more. “Garlic? Garlic?! Yesss?!!” Ingredients 10 heads garlic 32 oz. glass jar with lid (or similar) 1 …

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Baked Cod

By EM Posted on March 16, 2012 Posted in Recipes Tagged with main plate
Baked Cod

Cod is cheap. That’s the first thing it has going for it. Second, when baked with lemon, butter and garlic, it’s really, really good. Ingredients 3 cod fillets 2 oz. butter (half a stick) 2 tsp. lemon juice 6 cloves garlic, …

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French Toast

By EM Posted on March 6, 2012 Posted in Recipes Tagged with breakfast, custard
French Toast

When I lived in France, I asked my employers what the French is for French toast. Not “us toast,” surely. Turns out they call it le pain perdu: the lost bread. Baguettes are a staple in French kitchens. People bring …

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