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What to Cook When You Hate to Cook. Recipe 2: Mediterranean Bread Salad
This is the second recipe in my series for those of us who are lazy chefs. Check out recipe 1 here. I enjoy making bread salad in the summer. It’s filling, and yet somehow still feels light and fresh to me. And preparing it does not heat up your kitchen in any way. You’ll notice…
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There Goes the Neighborhood
I’ve been house hunting, and I can tell, almost immediately, if I’d be a good fit for a neighborhood. If there are wide expanses of manicured lawns, I definitely will not fit in. And I would chafe under rules that dictated what color I paint my mailbox. I’m not a “keep up appearances” kind of…
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Heirloom Tomatoes
Ladies and gentlemen, I have seen the promised land, and it is good. For about a year now I’ve been passing heirloom tomatoes in my local store and noting that they are twice the price of any other tomato. “What’s the big deal?” I’d wonder. But I could never really justify the expense in my…