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Roast Tomatoes to Intensify Flavor

Roast Tomatoes to Intensify Flavor

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I love roasting vegetables to concentrate their flavors.  All winter I roast root veggies and cauliflower and of course potatoes.  Removing water from vegetables through roasting intensifies the flavors and improves textures, so why not try this easy and inexpensive process to improve a vegetable that is usually not all that good at the supermarket. While everyone loves a gorgeous, in-season, heirloom tomato, sometimes that is just not possible.  Out of season?  Too expensive?  Hard to find?  Try roasting some…

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So I cooked millet…and it was good!

So I cooked millet…and it was good!

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I love my grains.  Who doesn’t nowadays with grain bowls all the rage?  But I had never cooked with millet, not until last night.  So my first thought was, “Now what?”  My second was “What the heck is this?”  And third “How do I get you in my belly?” Let’s begin with some info and history since the interweb is full of this sort of thing.  Millet is actually a seed from a whole family of grasses rather than from…

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The Best Veggie Burger Evah!

The Best Veggie Burger Evah!

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For me, eating a really good veggie burger that I made at home had become a quest.  Long, fraught with disappointments and lots of unappetizing balls of mush.  But alas!  Some beets with that ‘not so fresh feeling’ at the bottom of my crisper (I don’t even remember buying them, let alone when!) led me to a transcendental moment of veggie burger nirvana…and my kids ate them.  And liked them!! These can be made gluten free by substituting instant oats…

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Odds & Ends Frittata

Odds & Ends Frittata

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6 eggs, beaten 2 ounce-ish Monterey Jack cheese diced small 1/2 teaspoon black pepper Pinch salt 1 teaspoon butter or olive oil 2-3 slices of cooked bacon, chopped 1/2 cup chopped red pepper 1/2 cup chopped scallions 4 sprigs chopped cilantro or parsley leaves Preheat your oven to broil. Mix eggs, green pieces of the scallions, pepper, and salt. Heat up an oven safe saute pan over medium high heat adding oil or butter to warm.  Saute the red pepper…

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