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A Week’s Worth

October 14, 2010

Some things just bring out the best in so many other things. Take soffrito. Or salsa verde. I did. Every day for a week. These sauces give you huge flavors and time-saving meal planning. Or let you eat really well with no planning at all. Make a batch - use it all week.n

Pear Tarte Tatin

October 13, 2010

Delicious in the extreme. Less than $3 for a spectacular dessert from your own oven. A half hour preparation. Bakes while you're eating dinner. Makes your entire home smell edible. Exercise enough self control to have leftovers, you get a killer breakfast the next morning, too.

Columbus discovers corn and peppers

October 9, 2010

This year I'm celebrating with a Pepper Polenta Pizza. Sweet corn. Sweet and hot peppers. I think Columbus would have liked this. More than 500 years later, it's still just two dollars for a great meal.

Collard Greens: Smoky Two Ways

October 6, 2010

If the incredibly cheap and healthful collard green hasn't been part of your life, you just haven't been smoking the right stuff. Here's how to light up this dark, leafy green. Two delicious, aromatic ways: one vegan, one with bacon.

Ripe Now: Striped Beet Salad

October 5, 2010

A delicious and beautiful vegetable course. Takes: less than ten minutes and two dollars. Gives: two huge portions or four smaller side portions; a lot of vitamins B and C and dietary fiber.

Velvet Butter Sage Sauce

October 2, 2010

Delicious. Takes about three minutes. The ingredients: water, butter, sage (or any other fresh herb). Grow your own herbs, don't use too much butter - it's Cheap. It's Better than any melted butter thing you've ever done.

Apple-a-Day: Apple-Cheddar Pizza Pie

September 30, 2010

I got a huge bag of apples in my CSA farm share this week, so I'm making an Apple-Cheddar Pizza. Apples are everywhere now - at the seasonal peak flavors and seasonal low prices. Hit the Farmers Market, get some apples and try this for brunch. Or breakfast. Or lunch. Or dinner.

The Island of Potato Marco Canora’s Gnocchi

September 29, 2010

It's the ultimate Better Cheaper Slower food. Two really Cheap ingredients: flour and potato. Better than any pasta or potato dish I've ever had. When you make it yourself, when you really get it right, you'll be so amazed by every bite you'll eat very Slowly.

Ripe and tasty: squash in soffrito

September 28, 2010

Squash is everywhere and really cheap right now. Acorn squash, butternut squash, Hubbards, pumpkins. All very cool looking. Especially the Delicata, and it's easy to peel. Even easier to cook if you made a batch of soffrito.

Bulb Time

September 25, 2010

If you have space, make time. To buy and plant some bulbs during the next few weeks. It's now ... or a year from now. Tulips, irises, lilies, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses. All those things that just pop up right on time every year to let you know the natural world still works.