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That Weekly Box of Vegetables: Worth It?
Twenty-three weeks and more than 200 pounds of fruits and vegetables later, a home cook evaluates her winter CSA
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Recipe: Carrot and Lettuce Salad with Feta and Walnuts
This simple salad combines the last gasps of winter's root vegetables with fresh spring lettuce
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Learning to Like Sautéed Fiddlehead Ferns
For one home cook, good company—both human and vegetable—make fiddleheads worthy of a second chance
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Recipe: Spring Vegetable Pasta
Asparagus, peas, and onion complement pretty but occasionally unimpressive fiddlehead ferns in this tasty seasonal pasta
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In a Cooking Funk? Eat (Your Way) Out
A restaurant meal is an ideal antidote to home cooking blues. Homemade hummus is pretty good medicine, too.
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Recipe: Creamy Hummus
This smooth, homemade hummus helped one CSA subscriber with her abundance of carrots and radishes
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A Soup to Soothe, and Please, the Stomach
Ginger and kale soup with miso has all the comfort of chicken soup, and will make you swap your heating pad for a spoon
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Recipe: Ginger and Greens Soup
This fresh spring soup of seasonal vegetables features ginger to ease the stomach and miso to treat the taste buds
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When Other Produce Fades, Make Potato Pizza
Some fruits and vegetables are just more reliable. One CSA subscriber strides past spoilage and devises a go-to dinner.
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Recipe: Pizza Patate (Potato Pizza)
Adapted from a Gourmet adaptation of Jim Lahey's recipe, this pizza features potato slices that practically melt into the crust
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Recipe: Basic Pizza Dough
This is a great basic pizza dough recipe to have on hand. It works just as well for impromptu pizza nights as it does for the author's pizza patate.
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A Walk on the Wild Side (with Fiddlehead Ferns)
When a produce share brings both berries and foraged delicacies, a home cook sautés outside her comfort zone
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The Joy of Cooking Alone
With her usual dinner companion out of town, a home cook casts off formality, braises broccoli rabe, and proves that one can be the tastiest number
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Recipe: Braised Broccoli Rabe with Garlic and Pecorino
Cooked slowly, this green, which is actually descended from a wild herb and related to turnips, makes an ideal topping for toasted rustic bread
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Lord of the Spring: The Return of Arugula
One green to rule them all—or at least to bring back vernal excitement and banish those root vegetables
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Recipe: Bulgur and Arugula Salad
Surprised by arugula in her CSA share, the author creates an impromptu green-and-grain salad that suits her taste.
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Between Seasons, Look to the Pantry
Drowning in potatoes, with spring vegetables still out of reach? Canned goods and spice will come to your rescue.
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Recipe: Chana Masala
This recipe, from the food blog Orangette, makes no claims to authenticity, but it's consistently good.
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Recipe: Roasted Potatoes with Garam Masala
With the warm flavor of garam masala, these potatoes make an ideal cold-weather pick-me-up
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Frittata: The Vanquisher of Old Potatoes
Eggs, onion, and rosemary make short work of even the squishiest specimens. Root vegetables, your time has come.
