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Yellow Tomato Gazpacho

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They had beautiful golden yellow tomatoes at the farmer’s market yesterday and I went a little crazy. There’s nothing like the smell of a real, grown-in-the-earth tomato. It brings back childhood memories of going out to the garden to pick tomatoes for supper, standing barefoot in the rough ground, and brushing the dirt off a sun-warmed tomato to breathe in that pungent tomato smell. The scent of a tomato is unique – it reminds me of geraniums, or maybe rosemary, […]

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cherry quinoa muffins
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Cherry and Quinoa Muffins

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It takes some imagination to find a filling breakfast food that can be made in advance; often on weekends at our house we have people waking up over the course of several hours. I’m not the cheeriest of early morning cooks, so I prefer to put breakfast together and let guests serve themselves when they wake up, which eliminates me hovering in the kitchen, spatula in hand, waiting to take orders. If you have juice waiting in a pretty pitcher […]

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It can be served cold or at room temperature, so it’s a perfect summer buffet salad – and it’s gluten free!
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MELON, CUCUMBER AND FETA SALAD

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I saw a version of this recipe in a British magazine and was so taken with how beautiful it looked that I had to try it. We don’t have the same kinds of melons available here, so it’s a bit different from the original – but it’s also more interesting than the standard watermelon/feta/cucumber combination. And the pistachios give it such a nice pop of crunchy flavor! This salad was a huge hit (I could tell because the moment it […]

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Grilled Shrimp Corn salad with Garlic Bread
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Grilled Shrimp Corn Salad with Garlic Bread

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One bowl dinners – especially one bowl dinners that can be grilled – are about the easiest summer meal there is. I especially love this one because the corn salad can be made ahead, and then it takes less than five minutes to grill the shrimp and the garlic bread. It’s the perfect meal when you want something simple but delicious, and you don’t want to pay too much attention to the cooking – maybe you’re having friends over and […]

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Grilled purple potato salad
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Grilled Purple Potato Salad with Cilantro Pesto

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Potatoes may not be the first thing on your list to throw on a grill, but potatoes and grills belong together.   This is just the kind of salad I would have wanted for a White House Congressional Picnic menu: it’s colorful, unusual (purple basil, purple potatoes, almonds, cucumbers, and cilantro pesto), and it doesn’t have any ingredients that would spoil as it sits on a buffet in the brutal Washington heat. The annual Congressional Picnic is an enormous outdoor party […]

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