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Entries from July 2010

Local Potluck Tuesday (and Recipes for Peach Season)

July 20th, 2010 · 5 Comments

If you’ve been to a DC-area farmers market lately, I don’t have to tell you peaches are here. After a couple week hiatus, we stopped by the Crystal City Farmers Market last week to stock up on fruit at Kuhn Orchard — but I passed up the peaches and went for apricots, plums, blue and […]

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Almond French Toast with Cherry Apricot Compote

July 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment

As promised, July is cherry month here at FoodieTots. I know it’s the tail end of the season around DC, but elsewhere they’re just coming into season. While I bought all the Bing and sour pie cherries I could during our too-short season, I never spotted Queen Anne cherries this year — the yellow-red cherries […]

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Tags: at market · breakfast · fruit · recipes

Local Potluck Tuesday (and Fried Baby Artichokes)

July 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment

I learned to love artichokes during college in California, where a big, steamed choke and bowl of melted butter with wine (for dipping) was one of my favorite meals. The array of drop dead gorgeous artichokes at the Portland Farmers Market two summers ago was one of the things that had me nearly begging my […]

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Tags: at market · local potluck tuesday · recipes · vegetables

Local Potluck Tuesday July 6 (and Garlic Scape Chimichurri)

July 6th, 2010 · 4 Comments

As we prepared to welcome baby #2, this holiday weekend was an exercise in clearing out our CSA produce from the fridge. We grilled flank steak one evening, and I had chimichurri on the mind but was missing jalapeno peppers. (Chimichurri is a South American pesto-style green sauce, typically made with parsley and peppers. We […]

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Tags: CSA · grilled · local potluck tuesday

Happy 4th of July!

July 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Celebrating with all-natural, fresh from the farmers market Rocket Pops! (cherry, yogurt, blueberry)

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