Day 1: Lunch for a week

After breakfast, May and I schlepped around the town, running random errands and spending some time outside. It’s a raw blustery day — one of my favorite types of weather — and we stopped at ‘Bucks after shopping. I figure I should ‘fess up to this, since Bucks is neither local nor organic. We didn’t [...]

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Winter share soup

On a whim the other day I picked up a copy of Soups and Stews by Cook’s Illustrated. Not the book, but the one-off magazine that’s on stands nowish. I’ve read most of these recipes before but I was going to be on the T for a while and needed something to read. Happily, there [...]

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After-party soup

Farmwives are thrifty. At some point, during the holiday season, you will find yourself in the presence of the leftovers of a party. Don’t throw them away. Look at them with the farmwife’s eye and think about what you can make. Here’s a recipe I concocted looking at some recent leftovers. Take the carrots and [...]

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Switching my weekly menu

I used to have two aunts, The Aunts, who were old-school homemakers, back when you could get a Masters degree in homemaking. I wish I’d had enough sense to grill them when they were alive because I feel certain they could have taught me some things. One of the things that they did was have [...]

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