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No-roll pie crust.
We’ve been on a pie kick recently, because we were on vacation (or, rather, on staycation). Ever since we road-tripped several years ago to Martha’s Vineyard, where roadside pie stands crop up in the...
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What to do with garlic scapes.
I’ve spotted them—in my own garden and at farmers’ markets—just in the last week: Garlic scapes. Hooray! What is a garlic scape, you ask? The scape is the little curlicue sprout that shoots from the...
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Fluffy key lime pie.
As I mentioned recently, we’ve been on a bit of a vacation-induced pie kick. I totally had a taste for classic key lime pie, and I pulled out my Grandma’s 1996 cookbook, “Home Cooking with Dave’s Mom,”...
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Quick refrigerator pickles.
Say this 1o times fast: “quickfridgepickles, quickfridgepickles, quickfridgepickles …” Fun, right? So are these pickles. Before I share the recipe, let me say this: I. Hate. Pickles. Blexxxcch! But...
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The Clara Project: easy puffy omelet.
The omelet (and its wonderfully adaptable Italian cousin, the frittata) is one of those essential dishes that a cook should have in his or her repertoire. If all else fails, and your cupboard is bare...
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Grandma’s glazed strawberry pie.
Allow me to share a complete kitchen screw-up: I dug my Grandma’s recipe for fresh strawberry pie out of my file and gathered all the ingredients to make the strawberry pie glaze. I hadn’t made the...
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Recent favorites.
Looking for a new chocolate chip cookie recipe to try? Need a lovely salad recipe for dinner? Want a pasta recipe that’s cheesy and comforting? Look no further. Here’s a quick roundup of my very...
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The Clara Project: favorite vintage recipes.
Late last summer, I happened into Primitives & More, a vintage shop in Milford, OH, and found a treasure—one that has since inspired much culinary exploration here. The find? A collection of...
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The Clara Project: A joyful update.
This makes me so incredibly happy … When the Cincinnati Enquirer ran a cover feature on The Clara Project in today’s Food section, I hoped that someone who knows Clara Shenefelt Williams (in the 1930s,...
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Garlic scape-arugula pesto.
Garlic scapes are a fairly new product you’ll find at farmers’ markets, and many people wonder what to do with them. I recently shared several ideas about what to do with garlic scapes (the best: toss...
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The Clara Project: chocolate drop cookies.
These cookies are ri. dic. u. lous. In fact, we shouldn’t call them old-fashioned chocolate drop cookies. We should call them chocolate brownie cookies. The texture more closely resembles a brownie...
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The Clara Project: Kind words.
In the past two weeks, after first the Cincinnati Enquirer and then The New Yorker’s Grub Street blog and finally Yahoo! Shine published stories about The Clara Project, the response has been...
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Grilling summer vegetables in foil.
It’s the Fourth of July, and summer is in full swing here in the Midwest. These long, warm days have an effect on our bodies—specifically, on our appetites. Ever notice how Mother Nature has a way of...
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Grandmother’s toasted coconut cream pie.
First, let me get this out of the way: I hate coconut. Really hate it. I won’t go into the gory details, but suffice it to say I have issues with the texture of coconut. Having said that: I love this...
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The Clara Project: breakfast bread (aka coffee cake).
Tucked into the stack of vintage recipe cards that have fueled The Clara Project (learn more about the cards and the cooking project they inspired here) are a number of recipes clipped from The...
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Easy summer tomato gazpacho.
Now that we’re full-on into tomato season, I’m playing around with one of my favorite summer dishes: gazpacho. I love white gazpacho, a creamy and zingy chilled soup that’s built on a base of cucumber,...
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The Clara Project: classic homemade doughnut recipe.
The Clara Project brings us another thumbs-up: a classic recipe for homemade doughnuts (or donuts, in modern spelling). These are absolutely fantastic, and every bit as easy to make as a batch of...
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Eating locally abroad: Cooking in Italy.
I’m working on just a couple of hours of sleep; our lovely vacation to Italy came to an abrupt end with endless delays at JFK in NYC that got us home and into bed at 2:30 this morning. (It’s a...
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Pasta with potatoes, beans and pesto.
How beautiful is this disc-shaped pasta? It’s called croxetti, and the pieces resemble thin silver dollars; they’re stamped with lovely designs including a coat of arms and a sheaf of wheat. Croxetti...
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The Clara Project: buttered nuts.
Things are a little, um, nutty around here, so we’re going for a very simple recipe from The Clara Project this week. In my mind, there isn’t a better party nibble than a bowl full of homemade cocktail...
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