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Waste Not Want Not: Yellow Split Pea Soup with Corned Beef Stock
The spicy and aromatic stock left over from cooking homemade corned beef brisket was simply too good to pour down the drain. Slightly salty from the brined and cured meat and redolent of coriander,...
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Waste Not Want Not: Cheese Rinds and a Celery Soup
The garden’s getting drenched with rain today, thankfully, so I stayed inside and made soup. Lovely celery and leek soup feels spring-like, light and nourishing just like the rain. Local leeks were...
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Waste Not Want Not: Baked Peppers with Tuna and Rice
During seasonal transitions like early spring, I find myself cooking warm comfort food and dreaming about summer food. There’s a great Italian rice salad that I sometimes make for a summer picnic,...
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Waste Not Want Not: Pickled Chard Stems and a Bunch of Ways to Use Them
The weather turned reliably warm and my chard bolted. I don’t mean, found the door and vamoosed. I mean, developed thick, faceted stems and prepared to go to seed. Chard in my experience is slow to...
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Red Chard and Golden Raisins with Orecchiette
I was like one of my kids separating stew on his dinner plate into identifiable parts. A two-pound bag of mixed chard cuttings from our CSA – different sizes and colors – was simply not getting stewed...
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Waste Not Want Not: Pea Pod Soup
I used to weep at the bushels full of peas set before me as a kid tasked with shelling them. The weeping had as much to do with yield as with the task itself. A giant pile could reduce to a mere cup...
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Waste Not Want Not: Fennel Frond Broth for Cooking Beans and Making Soup
The first of a two-part series on ideas for using the whole fennel plant – bulb, stalks and fronds – in several complementary dishes… One of the great advantages of belonging to a CSA or growing your...
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Waste Not Want Not: Beet Stem Broth for Summer Onion Soup, and Beet Soup with...
I discovered a new vegetable broth, my latest “favorite.” Made with the red stems of beets and the greens of leeks or spring onions, it has all the flavor and color of a light beef stock but it’s...
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Waste Not Want Not: Restocking the Bird, Turkey Rice Soup
The bird was barely warm when we stripped it. After the Thanksgiving feast, we quickly removed the turkey meat to cool and refrigerate it and placed the carcass in a deep stockpot. After being...
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Waste Not Want Not: Mashed Potato Burgers
This is about leftovers. Then I promise I’m finished with Thanksgiving. From the time that I was a kid, an eldest child with a brood of siblings, I became known as queen of the leftovers. My own kids...
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Waste Not, Want Not: White Fish Stock and Chowder
One of my favorite things to do is to walk away with an armload of “garbage” and turn it into gold. Fish stock is a great luxury and a classic lesson in “waste not, want not,” especially when our local...
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Fish Cakes
I’m not called the queen of the leftovers for nothing. After I simmered a giant fish carcass to make stock, I was able to salvage a couple of cups of fish meat, some in chunks, some flaky. My method of...
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