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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Rhubarb Maple Muffins

April 30, 2009 – 7:59 AM

These muffins are free of refined sugar — surprise! — and they’re packed with good-for-you ingredients like rolled oats and whole wheat pastry flour.

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Linguine Rigate with Ramps and Asparagus

April 29, 2009 – 12:41 PM

This is the kind of quick and dirty recipe that can take a lot of fiddling around, so if you don’t have what’s here, play with similar ingredients and see what you come up with.

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Ramps (Wild Leeks)

April 27, 2009 – 6:30 AM

Part of what’s so great about keeping a blog is the visual and written record it keeps for you. It stands in well for a crappy memory — which is exactly what I have. I’d posted a handful of entries about a year ago, in a Plate to Plate test run, and it was one [...]

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First Spring Greens

April 23, 2009 – 1:50 PM

After six months of lettuce from California, which tasted like cardboard (no offense, CA; I’m sure it tasted better before it got on a truck), we were finally blessed with a batch of baby salad greens from Sidehill Farm in Ashfield, MA.
And, oh boy, were they delicious. Dressing: little olive oil, a little apple cider [...]

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