Lisa on May 23rd, 2012

May isn’t just a great month for flowers, it’s a great month for graduation parties and weddings and holiday weekend grilling. And no matter which bash you’re hitting up, you’d probably like to take a dish along with you. But what can you take that will taste great, be fresh and satisfying at the same [...]

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Lisa on August 22nd, 2011

This post is a two-for-one deal: it’s a continuation and an introduction! The continuation is the part where you make darned tasty use of your leftover high-quality, no-mess, baked bacon from the previous recipe. The introduction part is to let you know about brown rice maifun noodles. I stumbled across them at Westborn lately and [...]

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Lisa on August 18th, 2010

What the heck — tomatoes and watermelons are both pink and round summer fruits, so why not put them together?  I admit, I had to be prodded into the idea by a tomato-watermelon gazpacho recipe I spotted in this month’s edition of Food & Wine, but once I started thinking about pairing the two, I [...]

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Lisa on July 14th, 2010

There’s a new crust in town, and her name is Polenta.  She’s an oldie-but-goodie — although polenta dates back to Roman times, it’s still on market shelves today.  It’s basically a cooked cornmeal mash.  Originally, it was served as more of a porridge; nowadays, it can be cut into slices and then grilled, or it [...]

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