Category: Food News
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Hard boiling (and peeling) fresh eggs from the market
We buy eggs from a vendor at the farmer’s market in Laguna Beach. Mostly we eat them hard cooked, for breakfast and occasionally on a salad or with some asparagus. They are quite fresh at the time of purchase – at most a couple of days after they are gathered, and they are delicious. One…
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What’s Cooking Today
Here’s what some other folks are featuring today: NYT Cooking – Recipe of the Day Epicurious – 47 Mother’s Day Dinner Recipes for the Best Mom Ever BBC good food – Today’s Favourite Recipe Lion – Recipe of the Day…
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Knives
A cook’s knives are his or her most basic and, I think, most important, kitchen tools. And yet, when I help out in the kitchens of friends and family, I am frequently amazed by what I see when I check out their knife collections and the condition of the knives therein. With a few exceptions,…
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Market Day…
Yesterday was market day in Laguna Beach. Artichokes are in season, so they were plentiful and relatively cheap. Lemons are mostly done for now. Strawberries have picked up a bit, but not so much that the price has come down, yet. The weather has been cool, so leafy vegetables, lettuces, and peas are also abundant,…
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Reducing Added Sugar in the Diet
There was an interesting piece in the Smarter Living section of the NY Times this morning about how to reduce the amount of added sugar one consumes. It’s a short piece with a link to a longer, more detailed guide by David Leonhardt. There seems to be a fair amount of good scientific evidence that…
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Farmers Market Bounty
Today’s bounty from the Laguna Beach Farmers Market. I go pretty much every Saturday morning and buy almost all of our produce for the week. The market is an Orange County certified farmers market, which means that the vendors can only sell what they actually grow, and if they say “organic” they have to be…
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