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Posts tagged “winter”

20 Tantalizing Tailgating Recipes

Tailgating is a huge tradition when it comes to collegate and professional sports alike. Even when your team does poorly, there's still amazing food and fellowship. Win the hearts of your friends w...

How To Make Moist Cornbread (Plus Six Ways To Eat It)

Cornbread is a great way to utilize pantry staples and requires very little effort to make. The only trick to cornbread is that it has to be amazing every time, for as we all know, dry cornbread is t...

Tip: Haggle For End Of Season Pricing

Over the weekend we had a chance to visit a few pick-your-own farms. With winter quickly approaching in the Midwest, farmers were more than anxious to get rid of their crops before any more hard fre...

Seasonal Recipe: Pumpkin Soup with Bacon

My farm box delivered the most exquisite treasure a few weeks ago, the fairy tale-like Musquee de Provence Pumpkin. It's been sitting on my dining room table and as much as I would love to keep it ar...

Finding Inspiration: The Home Stretch of Winter

Now that it's March, we've officially started counting the days until spring. There's a light at the end of the tunnel, though the ground in Chicago is still dusted with snow and our pantry is looking...

7 Super-Simple Citrus Cocktails
Straight Up Cocktails and Spirits

With all the fresh, juicy citrus flooding the fruit stands right now, it seems the perfect time to take a look at some quick and simple cocktails powered by Vitamin C. And when we say simple, we mean...

Eating Light: Citrus Recipe Roundup

What's the best way to stave off post-holiday melancholy and face another dreary winter morning? For us, it's bright, juicy citrus. Now that we're eating light again, we've been devouring as much citr...

Recipe: Butternut Squash "Winter" Rolls with Spicy Cranberry Sauce

Last week, we mentioned spring rolls as a possible holiday appetizer that can please a wide variety of eaters. But since spring is several cold and snowy months away (at least here in the Midwest), we...

Green City Market: Now Year-Round
Chicago

Good news for Chicago marketgoers: The Green City Market is now open year-round! As of January 2009, the market will be open twice a month through mid-April. ...

Tomatoes in January! Winter CSA Shares from Winter Sun Farms

We mentioned Winter Sun Farms after meeting them at the Let Us Eat Local event a couple of weeks ago. At the time, we thought they only delivered in New Paltz and Poughkeepsie, but we were wrong! They...

How To: Freeze Zucchini

Around this time of year, there's so much zucchini coming in that you start hearing stories of people leaving anonymous bags of zucchini and summer squash on doorsteps just to get rid of it! While th...

Hungry Reader Weekend Picnic: The Time Traveler's Wife

Among the many poignant moments in this quirky love story by Audrey Niffenegger, it's the lazy picnics shared by grade-school Clare and her time-traveling husband-to-be that stand out for us. In the...

Winter Salad Recipes

Summertime salads are straight-forward. Cooks just pick up what looks good at the farmer's market, chop some vegetables, and toss them into a bowl with a simple dressing. "Whatever grows together,...

Good Eats: Hot Toddies and Skirt Steak

Don't miss the newly expanded Dinner Tonight feature at Serious Eats. Often as the clock strikes 4 p.m., we're wondering what to make for dinner. Serious Eats helps us along. Today, they're sugges...