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When You Know The Odds

Meredith

Posted on February 18, 2013

I used to work part-time at a food cooperative in Portland, Oregon, and the produce manager there used to place bets with volunteers that every week they could find something on his small but mighty produce display that they had never eaten before.  This was the kind of bet you make because you know the odds (or because you order the produce, and you know the farmers.)  This was a real  point of pride– and illustrative of the amazing diversity of farming going on in Oregon.  That produce rack introduced me to watermelon radishes, lemon cucumbers, gold beets, countless strange looking summer squash, and some incredible tomatoes I later grew myself in Oregon. But it got me thinking, since I sometimes find myself afraid…

Categories: recipes, vegetarian

Tagged: beets, carrots, easy, food, garlic, recipe, root vegetables, rutabaga, soy, sweet potatoes, thyme, turnips, vegetarian, yams

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Easter Dips and Crudité

Meredith

Posted on April 10, 2012

Easter weekend in San Antonio is about kids sneaking up on you and smashing cascarones– eggs filled with confetti– on your head while you luxuriate in a plastic deck chair eating BBQ under a hundred year old pecan tree. I got to eat Puerto Rican rice with pigeon peas and Sazon, BBQ pork ribs and capirotada (Mexican bread pudding with cheddar cheese), and my friend Michelle’s Puerto Rican salad dressing– which was FULL of garlic and so delicious.  Everything was delicious.  As promised on facebook, I bring you my contribution to the festivities, which was a little random, but colorful. Two dips: Beet and Tahini and a Dill dip. The Beet and Tahini dip is actually good on sandwiches too, and both dips are…

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Tagged: beet and tahini dip, beets, crudite, dill dip, dips, mezze, recipes food, tahini, tofu

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