beans!  beans!  they’re good for your heart!  the more you eat, the more you fart… unless you change the soaking water every couple of hours to remove the offending sugar molecules called oligosaccharides.  see what you get from me?  both immaturity and education!  i am like so totally worth your time…
after the butter and cream, […]

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i could just say “thank you heidi” and then give you the link… because anything else is really superfluous here - but since we haven’t chatted in awhile i thought i’d hang around and shoot the breeze.
‘08 has had a rough start.  one of my cats, chet - a sable burmese - got injured to the tune of […]

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3 soups in one day?  ambitious?  perhaps.  but i was hell bent on getting through this mountain of produce that was somehow all mine.  and soups are a good way to go when faced with an overbearing bounty.  i opted first for the bittman pear zucchini, then a riff off an aubergine soup i’d seen […]

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it was a quick ‘let’s have lunch’ decision.  and i thought perfect.  zucchini pear soup - a bittman recipe that sounded intriguing from last week’s dining section in the ny times.  and then i immediately thought imperfect.  no pears.  damnit.  i had just bought pears but now they were gone.  i had honeycrisps but that wasn’t going to cut it.  so […]

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ok - so here’s the whole story without omissions. 
 
i didn’t include this concoction in my last night’s post, but there was this soup.  it’s this thing i’ve been doing lately.  it’s because of the csa - the vegetable overload.  and because soup is good.
so my brilliant technique is to start throwing things into the vitamix to see what happens.  […]

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