Tag: asparagus
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Herbed Wild Salmon with Roasted Summer Vegetables
My new job as a baker means lots of new side effects! Here are some of them: 1. Muscles! Whereas I couldn’t even lift one initially, I can now carry 50 lb. bags of flour across a room without breaking a sweat. Progress! 2. Back pain! Or stiff joints/tense shoulders/tense everything. Professional baking is like…
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Poached Eggs & Avocado Toast
There is beauty in the poaching of an egg, in the way it swirls gently into togetherness. Water as land. Vinegar as air. Watch it. See how it starts out. Timid, first. Invisible, extant only by way of the bright yellow orb at its center. Drop! In the water, a ghostly, whirling specter as it…
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Roasted Potato Salad with Lentils & Asparagus
Happy 4th, everyone! I hope you are all barbecuing meat, grilling corn and drinking lots of beachside rosè. If you are, please have me in mind. I just started my new job as a pastry cook in Brooklyn (!!!) and our opening date is July 10th, so I’ve pretty much been working nonstop. No vacation…
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Honeyed Asparagus, Beet & Chevre Crostini
For one hot minute, I thought spring wasn’t going to come. I envisioned endless winter nights, sunglasses that would never see the light of day, too many oranges, and a devastating dearth of peaches. I doubted spring, and I wanted to cry. But then something magical happened: hope appeared, first in the guise of a…
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Baked Eggs with Snap Peas & Asparagus
I’m constantly looking for new ways to update my breakfast routine and these baked eggs with snap peas and asparagus fit the bill. They’re filling, delicious and easy to put together; you can substitute vegetables like peppers and spinach for the asparagus and snap peas, but these are two of my personal favorites, and since…
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