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Harriet's Dragon's Tail Radishes Summer Salad with Ginger-Miso Dressing - E.A.T #41

My friend and neighbor Harriet is a very generous gardener. As well as fresh kale and cucumbers, she recently shared some of her very interesting radishes. Not the round or oval red, pink and white variety, but a bag full of Dragon’s Tail Radishes. I am totally enchanted by their unusual beauty…colors from almost black, to a dark purple and a hint of lime green and their very peppery flavor with…

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Dark Chocolate Coin Cookies...Slice and Bake

Looking for the perfect Valentines dessert cookie...this is it. Easy and full of chocolate goodness.

Make the cookie dough, shape into rolls, chill and bake….or make, shape, wrap and freeze for later. These thin very chocolatey, buttery, crispy lovelies would be so pretty for Valentines. I am not one to go overboard at Valentines, but I do love a good cookie anytime of the year and this one is rather special. I used De Zaan cocoa and Kerrygold butter, Olive and Sinclair dark chocolate and…

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Black-eyed Pea Potato Salad with Pickled Okra

Black-eyed Pea Potato Salad with Pickled Okra

2023…Happy New Year….This recipe is from a cookbook I worked on 2016 entitled “The Peace, Love and Potato Salad Cookbook”. It is very easy and quick to make and delicious for all seasons, but for New Years especially so. A definite twist on the traditional hoppin’ John, this bowl of “good luck” has the bright freshness of a salad and the coziness of a winter entree. You can use cooked, canned…

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Matzo Ball Soup My Way - E.A.T. #53

Matzo Ball Soup My Way with a little lemony twist, freshly ground black pepper and a generous amount of fresh parsley added.

Cool fall day…soup day…Matzo Ball Soup My Way day….restorative and nourishing. My way with lots of fresh lemon juice and chopped parsley, freshly ground black pepper…it is as “easy-as-this”. You know what else is as “easy-as-this”? Voting. It is also restorative and nourishing for the soul. Coming up in just a few days is one of the most important times to get out and vote to keep women’s health…

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Sheet-Pan Peach Jam with Thyme and Lemon A Sunday Morning in June - E.A.T. #52

Fresh Sheet Pan Peach Jam recipe

If I keep at it, I will find the absolute easiest way to do everything. It is not that I am lazy, but that I do not like to fuss. I want to start a task and take it through to the end as effortlessly as possible while ending up with something special…whether it be food, or art, or gardening. I am pretty sure my personality leads me in my approach…c’est la vie. Whipping up a batch of homemade jam…

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Creamy Roasted Poblano Pepper Soup

Amazing Creamy Roasted Poblano Pepper Soup, hot or cold and easy.

Hot or cold depending on our tempestuous Spring weather…served in a bowl or sipped from a cup…easy and quick. I realize that food always seems to tastes better when you are sitting at a table on a rather idyllic beach as the sun sets, surrounded by tropical flora, the waves crashing and having great company alongside. Nothing to do, no pressing work, a hammock nearby. Really, that is a no…

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One Recipe, Two Loaves - A Savory and a Sweet Irish Soda Bread

Fresh Baked Bread

A re-post from the past for current days. An easy bread to empower the most hesitant. Deliciously simple. “So, her hands scuffled over the backboard, the reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window.” By Seamus Heaney, from “North”, 1975 March 17th, St. Patrick’s Day and the return of Daylight Savings Time…all in the same week.A couple of…

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Inflation Inspired Pantry Granola E. A. T. #51

Inflation Inspired Granola....make it cheaper and make it better.

Everyday healthy. A Grab-and-Go snack. Simple is good. Make it cheaper, make it better. Homemade granola is so much tastier and healthier than anything available store-bought….and more definitely more affordable. At times when I am really busy I will buy my favorite brand from the supermarket, but earlier this week while grocery shopping I had a few “arresting inflation shopping moments” that…

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January 2022 - Black Bean Chili with Cocoa and Coffee, served with Lots-of-Gruyere Skillet Cornbread n- Quick and Easy

January 2022 – Black Bean Chili with Cocoa and Coffee, served with Lots-of-Gruyere Skillet Cornbread n- Quick and Easy

Colder than damn-it winter days…stay-inside-with-a-book grey winter days….days that could be dusk or dawn…cozy foods such as a large pot of Black Bean Chili with lots of spicy Rancho Gordo Chile Powder and dark, dark cocoa powder and brewed coffee in the mix…. simmering on the stove, an iron-skillet Gruyere-Black Pepper Cornbread just out of the oven….grabbing a bit of bliss whenever I can. Today…

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Black-eyed Peas with Lacinato Kale, Jasmine Rice and Sour Cherry Sauce

Black-eyed Peas with Lacinato Kale, Jasmine Rice and Sour Cherry Sauce

Or….”For the love of all things good in this world…Eat your Peas, Eat your Greens, Eat for Good Luck and Health, and Get Vaccinated, Please” Regardless of what is happening in this crazy world…I cook Black-Eyed Peas for New Years…it is one of favorite food traditions I have managed to keep going over the years come rain or shine, health or sickness, hell or high water. This year has had be so…

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A Little Holiday Jewel of a Salad

A Little Holiday Jewel of a Salad

One week away….the Holidays officially start with loads of heavy, delicious foods…mains and sides (my favorite part of the meals), desserts…put on repeat. A month of meals. Consider this little jewel of a salad to be a segue, an interlude, maybe a palate cleanser, definitely a colorful, shiny seasonal edible. It has crunch, color and citrus, freshness and a healthy-feel goodness. There is no…

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Quick and Easy Cast-Iron Garlic and Herb Roasted Tomatoes

Quick and Easy Cast-Iron Garlic and Herb Roasted Tomatoes

Same house, same yard, same wee garden space and 16 years later we finally have a lot of home-grown tomatoes. Which just adds to the many mysteries of gardening. One small sweet cherry tomato plant has been like a factory, revealing ripe red jewels every day all summer. This simple how-to-recipe is just one of the many ways we have eaten them. Nothing roasts tomatoes quite so well as a cast-iron…

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Oven-Roasted Garlic in Olive Oil...for everyday cooking all year long. E.A.T. #51

Oven-Roasted Garlic in Olive Oil…for everyday cooking all year long. E.A.T. #51

This is a pantry basic in our kitchen here at Food on Fifth and has been for quite a few years. It’s easy and incredibly useful for everyday cooking. This pantry basic saves a lot of time, while combining two things we start most meals with….olive oil and garlic. This all started when we were on a photo shoot a few years ago. The food client sent in a gigantic jar of fresh, whole, peeled garlic…

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(Not-Fried) Green Tomatoes Pasta Sauce

(Not-Fried) Green Tomatoes Pasta Sauce

August in Nashville and we are all enjoying ripe, juicy colorful tomatoes from our gardens, but soon, very soon, the weather will change and the vines will have lots of end-of-the-season green tomatoes hanging on. There are many recipe for using green tomatoes. Pickled, fried, jammed and juiced, but this late summer/early fall green tomato pasta sauce is another to add to your list of what to do…

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Sunday Morning....Banana Bread

Sunday Morning….Banana Bread

It’s a funny thing how the mind left to it’s own devices can ramble and roam going back and forth, weaving from the past, to now, then to the future and back connecting memories. Often one thing, in this case making banana bread on a Sunday morning, led me to think about The Velvet Underground and Nico singing Sunday Morning from an album in which one of Andy Warhol’s banana images was the cover.…

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Wild Plums, Pluots and Black (Flower)Pepper Cake

Wild Plums, Pluots and Black (Flower)Pepper Cake

My friend Mark gave me some beautiful just ripe pluots from his tree recently. I picked up a small container of wild plums from the farmer’s market the same day. Both fruit, along with the only black pepper mixture I use in my kitchen, Flower Pepper, which was given to me by another friend, Jesse, are the main ingredients for this very dense, moist everyday cake. There is a cookbook I purchased…

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laid-back blackberry cornmeal scones

laid-back blackberry cornmeal scones

Early Saturday morning on a trip to the downtown Farmer’s Market I found a few pints of the first local blackberries. Small and sweet and juicy, warm from the sun where they sat, my mind was already thinking of fresh blackberry scones for Sunday morning. Long, laid-back weekends call for something special. This recipe is easy and pretty quick and is very much inspired from a recipe in the…