Tag: by Masha
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Beef Bourguignon – My Variation
One of the prized dishes introduced to Americans by Julia Child, this rich beef stew is a French country classic. To this I add that my French co-worker referred to it contemptuously as “food for the old people”, claiming that it’s been cooked for so long to make the ingredients soft for the toothless that…
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Fresh Berry Tart
Today’s recipe was not composed by me, but it comes from a book that I gave my mom for Christmas this winter: The Tassajara Bread Bookby Edward Brown. I have not tried many recipes from it, but I did cook this Fresh Berry Tart from it before I actually gave the book to my mom…
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Avocado, Zucchini and Watercress Salad
Next to mama’s elaborate posts informed by years of experience and accompanied by beautiful photos, mine are beginning to look more amateur than I would like. But there is not much that I can do about the scarcity of time. I suppose, our recipes reflect our lifestyles. Mine are usually about quickly throwing something tasty…
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Pork "Chili" Stew
I’ve been away on vacation to the land of red earth and blue skies, where the food is hot and the people are easy-going – New Mexico. Incidentally, this means that I have been away from the kitchen and, to tell the truth, a bit loath to return to it. But, nostalgia for spicy New…
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Stuffed Peppers, Spring Cabbage Salad
Today was one of those (relatively few) days, when I forsake all my youthful yearnings for extreme sports, shopping, museums, nightlife, and instead settle for a day of picture-perfect domesticity. I decided to take it to a relative extreme and spent a few solid hours in the kitchen, cooking enough food to last us a…
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White Grapefruit and Salmon Salad
Cooking can be just about the food, or it can be a therapy: a release from a grueling day at work, or from the sadness that settles on you suddenly in a blanket of volcanic ash. And therapy it was for me yesterday night, when I composed this overture of a salad: sweet, refreshing, and…
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Almost-Healthy Tomato Salad-Toasts
This weekend I was visiting my parents in the suburbs of Boston, where the grass is greener, and the air mostly smells of spring, and much less of the city garbage, where the sun is hot on your back and the earth breathes easily under the feet of children and farmers’ ploughs. This means that…
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