Strawberry mango salsa

The best thing about spring is the arrival of fresh fruit. And while I enjoy a tomato-based salsa I find that fruit salsa is a little more versatile.  Now that mangoes and strawberries are both in season, it’s the perfect time to combine them into a topping for chicken or serve them with tortilla chips [...]

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Ginger peach compote on oatmeal pancakes

I started riding my bike again this summer. The last time I really rode my bike was in the summer of 2006. I was training for the Chicago Triathlon. I was supposed to race with my dad, but he passed away that winter. So I prepared for  the starting line in Chicago anyway, as a [...]

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Recipe: Perfect Basil Pesto

Besides caprese salad, capris pants, flip flops, and sunburned shoulders, another summer classic not to be left out is basil pesto pasta. Or basil pesto anything. There the basil is – swaying in the garden, or sprouting in the window box, or bursting as a simple bouquet on the green grocer’s shelf. Use me now, [...]

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Homemade tomato sauce (for 1)

Frost has hit Boston. Goodbye warm nights. I’ve put flannel sheets on the bed and pulled in my plants from the deck, which included my tomato plants sporting a few green orbs reluctant to ripen to red. But once I moved them inside things started moving right along and now I have another small crop [...]

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