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Real Pumpkin, From-Scratch, Foolproof, Homemade Pumpkin Pie
Last year, some years after making my first pumpkin puree for a risotto in a restaurant where I worked, I poked around the internet looking for a fresh pumpkin pie recipe and saw them to be few and far between. Most people, it seems, actually prefer canned pumpkin. The reason for why is pretty easy […]
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Simple Healthy Chicken Stock
Ingredients: Sachet Recipe: Roast giblets and mirepoix smothered in tomato paste in oven at 350 degrees for 45 minutes to an hour. Doneness is determined by browning on onions, carcass, and tomato paste. Put roasted chicken, giblets, mirepoix, sachet of bay leaf, garlic, peppercorn, and any other herbs you may desire into a pot. The […]
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Harvesting the Common Nettle (Urtica dioica)
When the pandemic hit in 2019, I was working at a local frozen grocery store that catered to specific diets. I’d applied to this company to teach cooking classes but the classes were on hiatus for the unforeseeable future as so many things were then, so I sold frozen dietary meals. My title was Nutritional […]