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New Takes on a Perennial Summer Fave: Strawberries
Some foods never overstay their welcome. People may tire of beets or green beans or the endless zucchini that become baseball bats in many…
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All Hail the Breakfast Salad
Despite my deep love for all things meat, I eat more like an herbivore when I'm cooking for just myself. One of my morning go-tos…
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Breakfast Club: Eggs and Wild Spring Hash
Here's a fun and easy spring thing. These eggs are more of a technique than a specific recipe. The idea is this: Sauté a bunch…
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How to Make Your Own Easter Candies
For some, the Easter holiday — which arrives this Sunday — means a particularly poignant church service and the end of 40 days' worth…
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Maple Sugaring Season Is Off and Running
Most Vermonters know that maple sap runs when temperatures are above freezing during the day and below at night, and that the season ends…
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March Is for Cheesy Potato Pie
I like to think of early spring as dairy and potato season. It's a little soon for fresh greens, except from the most zealous farms…
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Making Bitters, With Urban Moonshine as a Guide
Herbalists and creative drinkers looking for a crafty activity this winter are in luck. In DIY Bitters: Reviving the Forgotten Flavor, Urban Moonshine cofounders…
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The Return of Light: Swedish St. Lucia Rolls
Winter in Vermont means lots of darkness. In December, when the sun sets just after 4 p.m., it's hard to believe we'll ever return…
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Fresh Winter Cocktails With Vermont Spirits
Vermont is better known for its beer than for other alcoholic beverages. But as the state's distilling industry grows past its infancy, spirits makers…
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Corndoggin' It!
With a growing number of farmers growing grain in Vermont, it's becoming easier to access locavore staples such as flour and cornmeal. Charlotte's Nitty…
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Soup's On: Coconut Carrot Squash
I love a good winter soup. Last summer, my garden gave abundant storage squash and a boatload of carrots, which we harvested just before December's…
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Deck the Cheese Plate: Four Minimal-Effort Recipes
The recent release of the first-ever Oxford Companion to Cheese — edited by University of Vermont nutrition and food science professor Catherine Donnelly — inspired…
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Kimchi + Noodles + Egg = Breakfast in 10
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'm useless without breakfast. And for the past few months, I've been on a breakfast ramen…
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In Praise of Ham-Based Soups
At many small farms and backyard pig pens, November is hog-killing season. My husband and I get our pork from a friend; a group of…
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Recipes to Make the Most of Vermont's Squash Harvest
Drive by almost any roadside farm these days, and you'll see orange pumpkins curing in the fields or harvested and piled in rustic wooden…
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Taco Time: Lamb Merguez, Meet Salsa Succotash
In my house, meals default to tacos. They're cheap and easy and always tasty, provided you start with good ingredients. And with All Souls…
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Fresh Market Cocktail: Apples!
October means many things in Vermont: cutting corn, hauling pumpkins and winter squash, digging potatoes, processing vegetables, cutting the cabbage patch into kraut. And picking…
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Worth the Trouble: Wild Grape Jam
Wild grapes are kind of a pain to work with — each individual fruit is more than half seed and skin, so you need to…
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A Late-Season Ode to Tomatoes
September is settling in. Early apples like Zestars and Paula Reds crowd the co-op bins. Sweaters are draped over mannequins' shoulders in retail shops. Perhaps…
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Salsa: Great Now, Better Later
I'm inclined to deny autumn an early start. But as peak produce season shifts into foggy nights and cool, dewy mornings, I've been processing summer…
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