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9 Lunch Ideas to Improve your Diet By Rebecca Taggart Breakfast is touted as being the most important meal of the day, but lunch—be it a homemade sandwich or a restaurant meal—gives us the energy for the afternoon’s work as well as an often-needed break from the computer, sales floor, or meetings. Lunch is also [...]
By Rebecca North It finally rained in the Bay Area and I’m ready to attack the garden with full force. This little plot of backyard was a dustbowl when I moved into the house last June. Over a month of weekends and eventful evenings, I added lots of new soil, pulled out a couple trees and [...]
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Using Pectin is Key to Jams and Jellies By Erin Mittelstaedt Canning helps us make new family traditions and memories. This year it was a kitchen covered in splashes of red pomegranate juice; mashing batches of persimmons to music; and making massive amounts of spaghetti sauce with my brother’s family, kids and all. I often [...]
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Butternut Squash is Comfort Food By Pia Hinckle When the weather turns damp and chilly, a heart-warming butternut squash soup is one of my favorites. This is one of those soups that will turn people who don’t have much experience with squash into true believers. It is a perfect dipping soup for sandwiches or toast, [...]
Thanksgiving Crafts you Can Eat By Pia Hinckle Thanksgiving when I was a kid was always a massive affair. My mother would roast a monstrous turkey that barely fit in the oven; friends and family would bring side dishes of all stripes and sizes; and my sister and I would ride with my dad in [...]
Lentil Love By Rebecca Taggart Egypt’s revolution and the ouster of President Mubarak has kept it in the news this year while Egypt the tourist attraction, the home of Tutankhamun and the pyramids, has been placed on the back burner due to the political unrest. But it was that Egypt, the ancient ruins and pharaoh [...]
The Crush By Pia Hinckle COTATI, CA — My mother’s family has been making wine since before she was born. My great-grandfather Giocondo Benedetti, who we called “nonno,” brought winemaking from Convalle, the tiny hilltop village near Lucca, Italy from where he immigrated to California in 1912. Jeff Libarle, one of my uncles, learned from [...]
The Pear Champ By Pia Hinckle SANTA ROSA, CA– Marie Seppa knows her way around a canner. A spry 91-year-old with bright blue eyes, Marie has been canning since she was a child growing up on a farm in Eastern Oregon in the ‘20s. Her specialty: pears. “All pears can, but I love Bartletts,” says [...]
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Fresh or frozen, tomatoes make great sauce! By Gretchen Bay During last year’s tomato season, we had a surplus of organic Early Girl tomatoes in The FruitGuys office from a local farmer, and I was lucky enough to head home with a very big bag of them. Organic Early Girls are some of the sweetest, [...]
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By Pia Hinckle My Calabrian friend Pino made this dish during a visit to California in 1999. This is a traditional southern Italian pasta made with fresh tomatoes, olives, capers, and basil. Now I make it every summer during the height of tomatoes season. INGREDIENTS 1 pound spaghetti or linguine 10 medium ripe fresh tomatoes [...]
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