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Butternut Squash Risotto Two Ways

Is there any vegetable more plentiful at this time of year than butternut squash? Do you ever wonder why it seems every restaurant in our region has butternut squash soup on the menu?  I am always thinking of new ways to use squash, and a few nights ago I made

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Roasted Cauliflower with Spiced Breadcrumbs

Amy Cotler, author of The Locavore Way: Discover and Enjoy the Pleasures of Locally Grown Food (Storey Publishing), says her husband who doesn't like cauliflower loved this recipes. "I cut it  into steak-like slabs, roasted until slightly brown to bring out its nutty flavor, then topped it

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Baby Bok Choy Stir Fry

Mark Twain said cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education, but he might have been talking about bok choy, which I think of as cabbage that went to college in Asia. Baby Bok Choy, a variety of Chinese cabbage, offers eaters both silky mild greens with a subtle

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Last Chance Sandwich: Eggplant and Arugula

To be a locavore is to live on the cutting edge.  The end of the season for harvesting any given vegetable differs depending on where you live, and Amy Cotler, author of the forthcoming The Locavore Way: Discover and Enjoy the Pleasures of Locally Grown Food, has come up with

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Tomatillo Salsa: Sunshine In Your Freezer

Amy Cotler, the author of The Locavore Way: Discover and Enjoy the Pleasures of Locally Grown Food, which will be published next month, shares another one of her of-the-moment recipes: Now that the edges of the trees are tinged with color, I feel the push to put things up for

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Final Call for Corn-and-Tomato Soup

"I should have called this Last Chance Soup," says Amy Cotler, who's been living and cooking in the Berkshires for nearly two decades. The soup is not only another way  to savor the last corn of the year but also a last chance to use cherry

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Hot Stuff!! Chili Cook-off Seeks Entrants

Attention Tex-Mex lovers and habanera pepper cravers! Does the term ‘hot stuff” describe your chili?  Every time you taste someone else's, do you find yourself thinking, "You call this chili?"  If so, the Hudson Valley Chili Cook-Off could be your opportunity to finally get the recognition

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The Pizza Farm Files: Recipes, Part II

Who better to ask how to cook vegetables than the people who grow them? That's why the clever designers at Winterhouse, who conceieved the Pizza Farm, produced these nifty recipe cards, which feature good eats from Farm Girl Farm in Egremont, MA, Good Dogs Farm in Ashley Falls,

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The Pizza Farm's Legacy: Recipes by Local Farmers

The creators of last weekend's one-day only Pizza Farm wanted to leave behind a permanent legacy so they asked all of the local farmers with whom they worked to provide them with recipes, and the graphic designers behind Pizza Farm produced two-sided, two-color recipe cards that were handed

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Canning, Pickling and Preserving: A Monthlong Workshop

Not since the days of Victory Gardens have these homely kitchen skills had such currency, thanks to the convergence, presumably, of the gardening craze, the locavore movement, and the economic meltdown.  Even last summer, when we all still had robust 401Ks, classes in these three nearly-lost arts were sell outs.

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Cold Comfort: 8 Fruit Soup Recipes from "Cooking Know-How"

"We refer to ourselves as the hardest working cookbook writers that no one has ever heard of," Mark Scarbrough said a few week ago before he and his life-partner and collaborator, Bruce Weinstein, left on a three-week publicity tour for their 15th book, Cooking Know-How (John Wiley &

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Foraging for Ramps with Chef Peter Platt

Update:  Knowledgeable naturalist Russ Cohen (click on comments below) will be conducting a foraging walk at the Hawthorne Valley Farm in Ghent on Saturday. June 6, sponsored by the Columbia Land Conservancy. Farmed + Foraged: A Weekend of Spring Flavors,  on May 15 - 17,  is a farm-to-table dining event with

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