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Friday’s Supper: Stems and Seeds

Doubtless you are all too upstanding to know where the phrase “stems and seeds” comes from. Suffice to say that it means to be scraping the bottom of one’s, er, stash.  Of comestibles, that is.  Bare-larder syndrome.  Lots of wide open spaces in the fridge.  You get the idea. But a lot of good things [...]

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Quodlibet Baking

I’m a mostly improvisational cook. I read cookbooks like other people read novels, as a leisure activity, but rarely refer to them while I’m cooking. Now and then I cook someone else’s recipe precisely as written, but I mostly use other folks’ ideas and methods as platforms upon which to build. For years I was [...]

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