Fresh currant berries are the culinary pearls of the fruit family. A member of the gooseberry family native to Europe, currants also grow here. White or red, each tiny fruit…
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Leek & Potato Soup
There is a delicious vegetable soup in this post. But first? Some grandfather tales. My Grandpa was a big believer in a vegetable diet, eating large quantities of carrots and…
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Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup
For all its legendary, soul-soothing status, chicken noodle soup recipes—those rich with homemade stock, fresh vegetables, herbs, and egg noodles—are rather hard to find. This classic, homemade recipe is a…
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Sour Cherry Hand Pies
Hand pies take a person back. To fourth grade, maybe (or even earlier), when you’d bike to that corner grocery store with friends after school, finding the rack of pies,…
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Mile-High Strawberry Pie
This recipe for fresh strawberry pie, stacked high with just-picked farmers-market berries in a strawberry-juice glaze, comes with a great back story. Liberace (pianist Vladziu Valentino Liberace), once the world’s…
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Zucchini Cake
When I was little, summer picnics, Ladies Aid Society functions, and fundraising bake sales always included fat loaves of zucchini bread. I remember asking my Mom why they called it…
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Summer Berry Pie
Juneberry, Sugarplum, Shadblow, Saskatoon … there are many names around the U.S. and Canada for what we know in Illinois as the Serviceberry tree. We planted ours to beautify the…
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Grilled Rainbow Chard With Gingered Peaches
If you have a rainbow of chard brightening your garden patch and would like a new way to prepare it, this one’s for you! Quick, easy, and full of flavor,…
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Tiny Refrigerator Pickles
Coming upon piles of cute and tiny pickling cucumbers at the local supermarket, I had to bring some home to pickle! Because my family likes a crisper pickle, we cool…
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Banana-Stuffed French Toast With Strawberries
Since debuting in 1971 at Disney’s Polynesian Resort, Tonga Toast—a cinnamon-sugared chunk of flash-fried, banana-stuffed breakfast bliss—has always been a top seller. Michael Thompson, a Polynesian Resort chef for seven…
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