Braised Beef Shanks with Root Vegetables
The February issue of Better Homes & Gardens came, and it included several great looking recipes for cooking meat on the bone. It included this recipe for Beef Shanks with Mushrooms and Olives. It...
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Shrimp Scampi
One of the nice things about belonging to a Community Supported Fishery (CSF) is getting exposed to things you would never try on your own. I’ve never been a big shrimp person, but when...
Cooks Source
We post a lot of recipes on this blog, so we’ve been following this week’s Cooks Source scandal with interest. If you haven’t heard the story, there was a pretty good story about it...
Dr. Seuss Pie
This tasty treat is easy to make, and a great dessert for when your mother is out of town. This recipe was created the first night our mother was gone. Dr. Seuss Pie 1...
Corn Cob Psychometrics
At dinner the other night, we were discussing the two different styles of eating corn on the cob. Some people go straight along the rows like an old typewriter, while other people go around...
Mango Sorbet
The other evening we were having dinner at Solea restaurant in Waltham. Across the street is one of Waltham’s Indian grocery stores, New Apna Bazar. Right now seems to be mango season as they...
Mashrou’ Leila
On the way to the supermarket today, we heard a song on the radio called Embembelelah. It was really cool, but when we got home we had no idea how to spell it or...
How To Deal With Spam
Do you have a problem with SPAM? What are you doing to fight SPAM? The SPAM problem seems to get worse every year. Do you need some better ideas on how to deal with...
Habib Koité
We’ve been listening to a lot of music from Africa recently; especially from Mali. One of our favorites is Habib Koité. We got a chance to hear him live last night at the Somerville...
Tarragon Chicken Crêpes
I think I copied this recipe down from a magazine or newspaper back when I was in college. [Ok, this is just a little too weird – I just went searching for the original...
