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Nectarine & Raspberry Cobbler – Summertime Memories

White on Rice Couple — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:14:01 +0000

Few desserts embody summertime for me more than chin-dripping, sweet nectarines combined with plump, slightly tart raspberries slowly baked together under a rustic country-style topping. Cobblers, crumbles, pies, crisps laden with juicy summer fruit, may the gods help me from eating the whole thing in one sitting. Especially with a dollop of fresh whipped cream or ice cream served alongside.

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Sun Dried Tomatoes in the Sun – Summer Fest

White on Rice Couple — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:37:19 +0000

Summer Fest is back again and the theme for this week are tomatoes. To participate, read more about Summer Fest on Away To Garden from Margaret then come join the community! Catch up on this seasons previous themes on the bounty of Cukes N Zukes , Sweet Corn and Herbs, Beans, Greens and Stonefruits.

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20 tomato varieties. 3 didn’t make it. That was our garden’s initial tomato plantings this spring. Of the 17 remaining there were was one of the paste tomatoes (our San Marzanos) which was grown for one purpose, sun dried tomatoes.

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Nail Shop Eats- Vietnamese Chicken Cabbage Salad Competition

White on Rice Couple — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:51:24 +0000

Delicious Vietnam is a monthly blogging event celebrating the love and diversity of Vietnamese cuisine. Delicious Vietnam was founded by Anh of Food Lovers Journey and Hong and Kim of Ravenous Couple.

I’m joining in on this month’s festivities and sharing my Vietnamese Chicken Salad Recipe. If you love Vietnamese food and have a great recipe post to share, please join the community!

My Mother has acquired an unprecedented fan base here on our blog since I started writing about her Nail Shop Eats escapades and she has absolutely no idea of her devoted following. Mom is not a woman of technology, social media nor simple “hand-phone” use. To explain to her what twitter, facebook, social media and blogging are would be too epic of an explanation for her. I would lose hairs just wondering where to start. She would be bored after the first 3 minutes.

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Morning Visit to the Farmers’ Market

White on Rice Couple — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:58:36 +0000

This morning was a great reminder why we enjoy visiting our local farmers’ markets, even when we don’t need produce. With so much traveling lately and a garden exploding with more produce than we can pass out to friends, neighbors and mailmen, we haven’t been going to the farmers’ market very often.

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Poached Pluots in Reisling – Summer Fest

White on Rice Couple — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:20:44 +0000

Summer Fest is back again and stone fruits are the theme. To participate, read more about Summer Fest on Away To Garden from Margaret then come join the community! Catch up on this seasons previous themes on the bounty of Cukes N Zukes , Sweet Corn and Herbs, Beans, Greens.

We love pluots (that delectable plum/apricot cross). They are a wonderful creation of the Zaiger family which has inundated Farmers’ Markets, fine grocers and backyards everywhere. Flavor Grenades, Dapple Dandys (aka Dinosaur Eggs), Flavor Kings and Queens. They have the light tartness of a plum, the firmness of a great plum, but the mellowed sweetness of flesh more reminiscent of an apricot.

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Orange Marmalade Cookies with Orange Zest Icing

White on Rice Couple — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:09:16 +0000

Rarely does a new cookie recipe make it into our abode’s “must make” repertoire. With our household favorites being so loved (like the chocolate chunk, snickerdoodle w/ Viet cinnamon, and oatmeal rum raisin recipes), a new find has to be pretty damn good to pass up baking an old favorite. These orange marmalade cookies with orange zest icing are pretty damn good.

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Garden Herb Flower Bouquets for you all

White on Rice Couple — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:55:10 +0000

I had many career changes in my life, all starting when I was in the second grade. Teacher asked me what I wanted to do when I grow up and at that point in my life, I loved puppies. So naturally, I said I wanted to be a Veterinarian not because I knew what it was, but because Teacher told me it was a career associated with puppies. I always called her ” Teacher” and what Teacher said was good, I followed suit.

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Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream – Summer Fest

White on Rice Couple — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:31:20 +0000

Summer Fest is back again and the theme for this week is herbs, beans and greens. To participate, read more about Summer Fest on Away To Garden from Margaret then come join the community! Catch up on this seasons previous themes on the bounty of Cukes N Zukes and Sweet Corn.

There are few herbs which give the connotation of “fresh” like mint does. A vibrant, bright, opening of the senses. As most home gardeners will know, there is hardly only one kind of mint. For culinary use, it is easiest to break it down to two main types, spearmint and peppermint, then allow the derivatives flow from there.

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Portrait of a Gourmand-Shauna & Daniel (Gluten Free Girl & The Chef)

White on Rice Couple — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:28:22 +0000

Portrait of a Gourmand - A gourmand is simply, someone who takes pleasure in food and eating. This is a continuing photographic series of gourmands, from all walks of life. There are many gourmands that inspire us in profound ways that make us experience and think about food differently. These portraits essays and interviews share their amazing stories.

Shauna James Ahern’s journey from suffering celiac disease to re-discovering food is a remarkable one. For the past 5 years, she’s shared her path to healing through candid and intimate essays on her popular blog, GlutenFreeGirl.com . Oh her personal food website, Shauna created an incredible community of readers from all over the world which has morphed into a powerful gathering place of healing, eating well and how to life a fulfilling life without gluten.

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BBQ Chicken & Corn Pizza – Summer Fest

White on Rice Couple — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:45:20 +0000

Summer Fest is in full swing and the theme for this week is corn, lovely sweet corn. To participate, read more about Summer Fest on Away To Garden from Margaret then come join the community! Catch up on last week’s theme on the bounty of Cukes N Zukes.

As a kid, I wasn’t particularly picky, but I had my likes and dislikes. We were lucky to grow up in a farming valley and during summertime there were the little farm stands filled with amazing freshly picked fruits and vegetables, not to mention ours and our neighbors’ gardens. There were tastes of perfect fruit sweetness and textures of faultless crops which I will never forget. Sugar snaps picked straight from the vine. Raspberries gently slid from their dangling vine tips, carefully picked amongst the thorns. Walla Walla sweet onions straight from gentle hills and valleys of Walla Walla. The sweet, chin dripping goodness of Hermiston watermelons, seeds spat as far as the lungs could push. And fresh corn snapped from its elephant-eye high perch.

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