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Fried Green Tomatoes

We always had a little garden when I was growing up. Not like a farm, but just a little plot behind the house, down the hill a bit, under a giant cottonwood tree with a swing tied to its branches. I didn’t really have much to do with the garden, aside from harvesting. My parents [...]

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How To Make Coleslaw

Chipotle Vinaigrette Coleslaw

This is one of the simplest coleslaw recipes EVER. In fact, this version is even slightly more complicated than I usually make. Most of the time, I just do salt, lime juice, and cilantro and boy howdy is that good. But I like the addition of the nuts and chipotle and the honey balances everything [...]

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Roasted Cauliflower

Whole Roasted Cauliflower

This here’s a recipe from my new cookbook! As was our plan for world domination, this new cookbook uses the skills and techniques taught in the Learn to Cook book and goes deeper into one particular food-subject. In this case, it’s the paleo diet. Not-quite-just-in-time for New Year’s resolutions to eat healthier and junk, but [...]

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How To Make Potato Salad

Perfect Potato Salad

This salad is full of awesome memories for me. Making it in the bright white kitchen of Laurel’s old house on Cherrywood, Emily tasting and tasting and tasting as it came together. See, Laurel didn’t like raw white onion, so Emily used green onions. Emily didn’t like big chunks of egg, so Laurel grated the [...]

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Spinach Bacon Salad Recipe

Spinach Broccoli Salad with Bacon – Old Lady Recipe #4

Once upon a time there was an annoyingly healthy spinach salad that sort of sat around all day looking pert and perky and full of nutrients, basically making an ass of itself, like it was some big deal or something. Whatever.

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Roasted Asparagus

Roasted Asparagus with Chili Oil and Lemon

Roasting, if you are unawares, is most likely the best thing you can do to any vegetable. Asparagus takes particularly well to this treatment. Once roasted, it becomes sweet and juicy with a good, toothsome texture. I’m not really sure what toothsome means, but it makes me think of saber-toothed tigers and thereby warms my [...]

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Mac and Cheese Recipe

Green Chili Mac’n'Cheese

After all the Valentine’s Day lovey-dovey, romancy-pantsy, French, Italian, aphrodisiac and chocolate recipes have come and gone their merry way, all I want to eat in February is old-fashioned American grub. This green chili macaroni and cheese hits the spot and then some.

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Cranberry Sauce Recipe

Homemade Cranberry Sauce Is Easy!

Cranberries grow in bogs. Bogs are like swamps. I’ve always had a thing for bogs and swamps. Did you know all that? For a while after college, I considered going to graduate school to study either parasitic plants or bogs and swamps. I got my bachelor’s degree in botany and really, with a degree like [...]

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