Mango Lime Sorbet

It’s mango season right now, and as mangoes are one of my very favorite fruits, you may be seeing quite a bit of them around here for awhile. I’m a bit picky about my mangos, though. I like them ripe, and that means that they must be very soft to the touch. The regular green-red [...]

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Blueberry Muffins

We woke up this morning to another cold, wet Spring morning, and I really wanted some pancakes for breakfast, but I only had enough maple syrup left for a batch of granola bars. I needed to come up with an alternate breakfast plan. I’ve still got a couple bags of blueberries in the freezer, so [...]

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Spicy Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Bleu Cheese

Today has been one of those wild midwestern Spring days. It was sprinkling and 70 degrees when I went out with the dog this morning, and then the sun came out for awhile, before the rain rolled back in again. We really wanted to get out on our bikes again this afternoon, and the weather [...]

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Not Quite Kruse Muer: Saffron Shrimp Pasta

My favorite restaurant back in Michigan is Kruse & Muer – it’s probably been my favorite restaurant since I was a teenager. Kruse & Muer specializes in seafood, pastas and pizzas…which a lot of restaurants certainly do well, but there is a special magic to the Muer restaurants that starts with a long loaf of [...]

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Winter’s End Beef Vegetable Soup

Spring in the Midwest is a very changeable season that keeps us just a little bit off-balance until the steady warmth of summer helps us forget the cold of winter. Yesterday was a gorgeous day in Chicago that begged to be spent outdoors. Mark and I hopped on our bikes and headed downtown on the [...]

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Orange Braised Pork

We received another package of pork country ribs in our farm share this month, and though I adored the pasta sauce that I made with the ribs last month, I wanted to try something a bit different, so I went in search of country rib recipes on the internet, and found a handful of promising [...]

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Blueberry Frozen Yogurt

Ice cream is becoming a weekly treat in our house, it seems. It’s so easy to make, why not?! This week, I went for frozen yogurt, and settled on blueberry. After blending up the base, it was hard to set it aside to chill, and not just pour it into a glass to drink as [...]

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Spicy Pork Stir Fry

I’m having a tough time getting motivated for my weekly menu planning…it happens every year about this time, when I’m tiring of winter vegetables – and now that I’m trying to cook new things for the blog and all of my wonderful readers, my imagination needed a little stretching this week. I had a package [...]

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Southwestern Something Soup

I didn’t really know what to call this soup – Southwestern veg soup? Black bean & vegetable? Tomato & black bean soup? Empty-the-pantry soup? The theme here is that I didn’t have enough time to make a pot of soup on Sunday for our weekday lunches. I made a small batch of our favorite quinoa [...]

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Other People’s Blogs: Agave Sweetened Chocolate Ice Cream

What’s a girl to do with a few lonely egg yolks leftover after making a batch of macaroons? Lemon curd or ice cream? I only had one lemon on hand, so poor me, I had to resort to ice cream. And I felt like making something a little more decadent, so there was only one [...]

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