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Foraging in the Fridge There’s a difference between recycling leftovers and cleaning the refrigerator. A cleaning means you toss the ossified remains. Out goes the strawberries wearing little gray jackets. Same for the limp lettuce and the cheese you can no longer find under the mold. Leftovers, on the other hand, require more creative treatment....
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Fig Fantasy Yes, I have a fig fantasy. Like the prophet Micah, I yearn to “sit under my own vine and fig tree.” But it has not come to pass. As you know from my previous posts, I’ve planted several fig trees of different varieties and sizes. All went root up—the fig version of belly...
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Most of us have a pickle story, or two, to tell. You might recall prying open a jar to salve that crazy craving you had during a pregnancy. Maybe the taste of Aunt Bessie’s bread and butter pickles still lingers on your palate. Or you may secretly indulge in making Elvis’ favorite sandwich: pickles and...
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Munchin’ and Musing When I eat out, I consider a number of things: menu, ambiance, location, hours/days, seating, parking, service, my guests’ preferences. I seldom get the whole package. But I come near. Most often, I select one of the places shown below, depending on what I’ve a hankerin’ for at the time. Let’s Eat...
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Easy, Breezy, Cheesy Pizza is one of my favorite dishes to make at the farm. Maybe that’s because there’re so many willing helpers. Assembling the Italian pie calls for dough rollers, sauce smearers, pepperoni poppers, cheese sprinklers, and oven tenders. “It takes a village.” But that’s the fun part of producing a designer pizza outdoors....
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Dining Alfresco This time of year I’m always on the lookout for restaurants that offer open-air dining. The Seven Gables in Clayton does that, and more, with a sidewalk patio, spacious inner courtyard, spiffy bar, plus a 32-room boutique hotel. Now that’s full service. The cafe-style tables on North Meramec are perfect for people-watch in...
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Stick with Me Here I apologize to all you carnivores out there. I know you’ll never get passed the first paragraph of this post. You eat meat, by Jove, always have; always will. Me, too. But I confess to occasionally eating a veggie burger. I usually buy whatever’s available in the freezer section or one...
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Salad Daze As I was tidying up my recipe file, I came upon a 70-ish recipe for Tuna Noodle Salad. It originated at Clementine’s, an upscale cafe in LA. I found it reprinted in the NYT, here. I realized it was almost identical to the one I’ve made for years. I smiled recalling that friends...
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Secluded Dining Though I was only in Bangkok for several days years ago, I fell in love with Thai food. But there was little, or none, to be found when I returned home. That has since been remedied. Such dishes as Pad Thai now pop up on menus here and there around town. Don’t Blink...
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What to Order “I’m going with Lucy to BOB’s tonight,” I said to my grandson, Andrew. (The longer name of the funky, downtown eatery is Broadway Oyster Bar.) “Great!” he said, “That’s one of my favorite places. What’d you plan on ordering?” “Well, I’ve had the fish tacos, the jambalaya, po’boy, and étouffée and they...
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Worth Every Step I bought a lovely, bright skinned eggplant at the Kirkwood Farmers’ Market recently. My idea was to make an Eggplant Parmesan. But this is one of those recipes that takes more prep and cleanup time than I like to expend. Even so, I soldiered on. I nearly gave up when I discovered...
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So today’s post will speak for itself. I snapped these photos during a recent morning at the Missouri Botanical Garden—one of the nation’s premier botanical sites. My friend, Lucy, (the plant whisperer) was in town. She had never been to Shaw’s Garden (as it was originally...
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More Than Just Another Link in a Chain It’s easy to write off too many chain restaurant as (yawn) . . . ho-hum or boring. But, Brio, the hip Italian villa in Frontenac checks a lot of boxes for their foodie fan club. For instance: There’s a spacious parking lot. Easy access. A large, cheery...
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On the Blue Plate Special In cookbooks of the 50s and 60s, it would be easy to find a recipe for Wedge Salad. There wasn’t much to it: a block of Iceberg lettuce with blue cheese dressing drizzled on top. The crunchy hunk often showed on the Blue Plate Special at neighborhood restaurants. By the...
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Friends Fur-ever The highlight of my week was having my dear friends, Cyndy and Lucy, join me from out of town. I had an agenda of “to-do’s” and “to-enjoys” for the afternoon. At the top of the list was to visit my granddogs. Both these gals are pet enthusiasts, so they were up for hanging...
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Hope Springs Eternal This time of year I always get a hankerin’ to plant something. The urge caused me to stop at Bowood Farms Garden Center, when Cyndy and Lucy were in St. Louis recently. Picking plants is far more fun with friends to advise and encourage. And, certainly, far more fun than ordering from...
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Thyme and a Hen Julia Child’s signature dish, and her favorite, was Beef Bourguignon (pron: Beef boor/ghee/nawn). The runner-up was Coq au Vin—chicken in a wine sauce. What was once the food of peasants in the 1500s, the famed chef turned into haute cuisine. Both dishes are braised in red wine. But they have different...
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In the Merry, Merry Month of May I knew you would want to see this photo of me, possibly age 8 or so, wearing my May Day dress. It was our way of welcoming spring to the Earth. We did it by dancing around the flag pole in the school yard, holding onto long ribbons....
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There’s one dish I always look for on a restaurant menu: Eggplant Parmigiana. I’ve eaten it all over town, though I’m sure I’ve not exhausted the possibilities. (My friend, Ann, always looks for octopus on a menu, which she finds less often than I do eggplant. Cyndy invariably seeks out the salmon.) So far, my...
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As I scanned my burgeoning shelf of cook books, I came upon one I’d bought years ago. It was not a book of recipes, but one of intriguing food facts. Larry Olmsted, published the best-seller entitled: Real Food, Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating & What You Can Do About It. Olmsted...
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