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Three Summer Menus for Any Occasion

In mid-winter, when frozen days seem to last months, I often squeeze my eyes tight and think of why I want to live here. The image that pops in my head is a summer day at the beach; the kids playing in the sand, the beach grasses rustling behind me, the rhythmic sound of the waves lulling me into a sweet peaceful state.

Now that the kids are no longer babies, going to beach is not the huge…

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Cold Succotash Salad

In summer when the corn is sweet and juicy, you need to add very little to make it perfect. This salad takes two classics, corn salad and succotash and melds them into one lovely summer dish. Pillowy butter beans and sweet corn are tossed with a simple buttermilk dressing. It’s summer and it’s southern. Happiness.

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Blueberry Buckle Crumb Cake More than a coffee cake and more than a muffin, this snack cake screams summer! Blueberries start to ripen about the same time that the waters around Cape Cod start to warm up enough to venture a dip.

Simple Peach Pie

When I was young and just figuring out that I want to spend my life cooking, I read a quote that said, “To be known as a good cook, start with the freshest ingredients and do very little to them.” The quote was attributed to Julia Child, although I now believe it’s a misquote of her more famous quote, “You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh…

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Iced Tea Concentrate

Now that summer is here, a large space on the top shelf of my fridge is dedicated to a pitcher of iced tea. It’s a habit formed long ago in the south, and one I will not give up. Recently I discovered that not all tea concentrate are those tiny packets of harsh overly-sweet tea sold in my local grocery store. You can actually make your own tea concentrate and keep it in a small jar in your…

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Unordinary Lobster Rolls

To get a pure, New England lobster roll, you need to do little more than toss lobster meat with mayonnaise and stuff it in a buttered and toasted hot dog bun. But from there a million and two different variations bloom to form a lobster roll cult where members spend their summers roaming from clam shacks and seaside cafes to compare the minute differences between rolls; one adds chives, another…

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INEEG Issue #1: Summer 2016

Five years ago this month I started this blog as a way to share my love of seasonal eating with anyone that cared to read it. I was an avid follower of the big name blogs like Pioneer Woman, Smitten Kitchen, Homesick Texan and many others. I was sure I could do what they were doing and thought that creating a successful blog was easy; it’s not. The days of creating wildly successful blogs were,…

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Spinach and Cheddar Soda Bread

Attention: In the days leading up to St. Patrick’s Day, many will go searching for true and authentic Irish Soda Bread. This is not that bread!

I don’t get the holiday. I’ve made posts for Easter, Passover, Christmas, Pi Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and pretty much anything. Until now, I’ve never had any interest in recognizing St. Patty’s day with a recipe. I have no idea if I am Irish. My…

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Honey Garlic Squash Fries

In my last post I promised you a new recipe. This is one I developed while trying to come up with a recipe to use the delicious Happy Valley Rewarewa Honey provided me by the company. It was delicious honey, and works well in this recipes. However, it’s a waste of good honey to use it here. Any good honey will work here.

These fries are never as crunchy as a good potato fry and not even as…

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Happy Valley Rewarewa Honey

This post is VERY overdue. I’ve spent the last two months trying to figure out how to handle this post, and now it’s time to get on with it.

Happy Valley, a varietal honey company from New Zealand, sent me a jar of their Rewarewa honeyback in December and asked me to review it for you. Reviewing the honey is the easy part – it’s DELICIOUS! It’s thick creamy texture and malty, not-too-sweet…

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Ambrosia Sugar Cookies

There is no such thing as the perfect cookie, but this one may take a lot of votes. My yearly cookie recipe this year is a faithful rendition of a cookie I love from the amazing Hearth Artisan Bread in Plymouth. They are best known for their perfect breads, but they also make one cookie, and they make it very well.

The Ambrosia cookie at Hearth is a large sugar cookie the size of your hand full…

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Butternut Squash Biscuits

Leftovers are brilliant, but what’s even better is repurposing them into something completely different. If you live in New England, there is a decent chance that your Thanksgiving leftovers include at least a small bowl of Butternut squash. It may even be already mashed. If so, there is also a good chance you everything you need to make these biscuits.

By themselves they are delicious. When we…

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One-Pot Gnocchi with Chicken, Mushrooms and Peas

With that big string of non-stop holidays and parties coming up, I thought it might be time to share an ultra easy dish for those hurried weeknights we all have. You know the ones. One kid has to be picked up at 4, another has to be dropped off on the other side of town at 5 then picked back up at 6. And, somehow, you have to feed everyone.

This quick and easy gnocchi uses leftover chicken (or…

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Twice-Baked Honeynut Squash with Sage and Gouda

I saw the cutest little squash the other day at the store and I knew I had to make them. They were Honeynut squash, a new breed developed at Cornell University, are about the size of a baking potato and several times sweeter than standard Butternut squash. When I saw them I immediately thought of baked potatoes so I knew I wanted to make twice-baked squash out of them.

Since the Honeynut is…

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Sweet Potato and Chard Hash

I like a hearty breakfast. Something hot and savory, with an egg or two and an endless cup of coffee. It’s a good way to start a day. As a good southerner, I grew up on bacon, ham and sausage, and I am still a big fan. However, increasingly I steer away from meat at breakfast. Too often, a big savory breakfast means meat, but a vegetarian breakfast can be just a satisfying and certainly more…

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Peach Upside-Down Shortcake

Last month I went to my parent’s place. Of the many fun and summery things we did, my favorite was picking their peach tree. When we arrived, the tree hung so heavy with fruit, that the limbs touched the ground. Day by day we picked the ripe ones. By the time I left not a single fruit remained on the tree. In a matter of three days we picked, processed and froze over 20 quarts of peaches. Of…

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Raspberry Lime Rickey

Summer charged forward like a freight train, causing me to ignore my computer for long stretches of time, choosing instead to play with the kids at the beach, or in the creek at my parents house. Here we are, the last of the month, and I feel like I’m running out of time to share my summer recipes with you.

If you have stuck around for awhile then you know I’m a fan of cooking with whatever is in…

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