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cornmeal buttermilk waffles with strawberries

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strawberry buttermilk waffles

On the momentous occasion of bringing home some of the season’s first local strawberries, it seemed like a good time to make some waffles. As far as I’m concerned, the combination of sweet summer fruit and corn is always perfect (consider rosemary pancakes with cherries or sour cherry cornmeal upside-down cake). And these waffles are no exception–the whole-wheat flour and cornmeal combine for a texture that’s at once delicate and toothsome, with a hint of sweetness from the corn and the slightest tang from the buttermilk. [Read more…]

old bay mayo

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old bay mayo

I feel kind of funny sharing a mayonnaise recipe–can you even call it a recipe? But the thing is, a simple upgrade to your condiments can bring something new and wonderful to tried-and-true burgers or sandwiches. That’s how it was with this Old Bay mayo. We had it on pork burgers and it livened them up, brightened them, and heightened the flavor. It’s easy for seasonal foods to get intertwined with nostalgia, and that makes it hard to taste the actual food. Instead, I often find myself tasting the memory of the food. But with new and exciting condiments, you can trick you palate into being in the here and now. When I started writing this post, I certainly didn’t expect it to take a turn for the Baba Ram Das, but I guess that’s what really good mayo can do to you. [Read more…]

queens county farm museum

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queens county farm museum
queens county farm museum
People don’t usually associate Queens with idyllic rural landscapes. Honestly, for us, a trip to Queens usually means we’re going to the airport. Also, once we went to the Target on Queens Boulevard (never again!). Queens is a great place for Chinese and Indian food and cuisines from countries you’re only vaguely aware of–what do they eat in Tajikistan, anyway? Most parts are hard to get to by subway, so we usually stick to Brooklyn. But a few weekends ago, we discovered a new reason to make the drive out to Queens–the Queens County Farm Museum. [Read more…]

savory strawberry salad with buttermilk dressing

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strawberry buttermilk salad

I’ve always been a bit dubious about savory strawberry preparations. With such subtle flavor, it seems the sweetness could easily be leached out of the delicate berries. But the other day, for whatever reason (chalk it up to a pregnancy craving) I needed some strawberries in my salad. Also, two eggs and buttermilk. Lucky for me, it was really simple to put this satisfying salad together. [Read more…]

mango and avocado salad

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avocado mango salad

To start this post, I’d like to pay tribute to the apple. This humble fruit was made to last–how an apple picked in November could still taste juicy and delicious in May, May!, is one of nature’s great mysteries. But this is the time of year for saying goodbye to apples. They’ve been good to us, but now there are blueberries, strawberries, and cherries on the horizon. And the occasional tropical fruit from the grocery store. These sweet and fleeting fruits lack the apple’s constancy, but it is their very impermanence that makes them so wonderful. Really, summer fruit is the main reason I put up with hot weather at all.

This vivid avocado and mango salad was created against a backdrop of impending over-ripeness–tropical fruits being among the most fleeting. You get some mangoes and avocados and they’re hard as rocks for three days, ripe for ten minutes, and then they’re soon on their way to the trash. Lucky for us, this salad used the needed fruit, and was really, really good. [Read more…]

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