Helping you make delicious & nutritious meals on a lean budget. Recipes are made available by former Chef Damon Simonetti. Workshops & cooking demos are offered to the Community in Greenfield MA.
Reminding you of the benefits of using the freshest ingredients available through your local food sources, & stressing the importance of making wise & healthy shopping choices, supporting sustainability, & growing one's own produce whenever possible.
Blog Roll
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Italian Wedding Soup
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A soup with the marriage of meat and vegetables; meatballs and onions,
carrots, celery and spinach. Italian wedding soup is a popular dish
consisting of ...
2 days ago
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8 recipes for celebrating Chinese New Year at home
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CHICAGO IS BLESSED WITH A LARGE CHINATOWN FILLED WITH AUTHENTIC REGIONAL
RESTAURANTS. Unfortunately for us, during Chinese New Year, those
restaurants are ...
2 months ago
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Christmas Cranberry & Clementine Trifle
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Is this becoming an all-trifle blog? It's certainly looking that way at
this point! I've seen a couple of people talking about A Return To Blogging
as th...
3 months ago
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Homemade Chicken Soup With Broken Spaghetti
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Fall is officially the start of soup weather and here’s a good one to start
you off on, plus you can keep it in rotation throughout the winter. It’s my
h...
7 months ago
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curried broccoli stem-cashew soup
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*Lunch is an important meal for everyone, but if, like me, you work from
home, I think you’ll agree that an enjoyable midday meal is crucial to
daily hap...
8 months ago
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Coconut Curry Mustard Sheet Pan Chicken (And A Giveaway!)
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Soon into developing recipes for Sheet Pan Chicken, I realized that so many
recipes’ ingredients could be interchangeable, and their procedures could
lend ...
3 years ago
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Why the Hummus Crisis is, in fact, “fake news”
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We’re not too fond of the term “fake news” or the person who invented it,
but it’s a pretty decent description to the recent “Hummus Crisis”. Here’s
why. E...
6 years ago
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New in the collection of the National Museum of American...
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New in the collection of the National Museum of American History: Julia
Child’s pâté weights!
6 years ago
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Processing shelling beans from my garden
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Here is how I process my home grown beans.
7 years ago
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Hello there!
If you've landed here, time to update your bookmarks and hyperlinks! You'l
find what you're looking for our new site over at:
http://mem...
9 years ago
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Chef Chuck's Swordfish Sandwich
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Panino al Pesce Spada
An elegant meaty swordfish steak sandwich served on a bed of mixed greens,
topped with garden fresh tomatoes, capers, balsamic vineg...
10 years ago
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Sharp & Hot – Let’s Get Stoked!
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Big news! I'm launching a radio show called Sharp & Hot with Chef Emily
Peterson on the Heritage Radio Network. I'm so stoked as this is my
childhood dream...
10 years ago
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An Evening with Eliza Rickman
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Bella Cucina porta via is creating an evening of sumptuous sustenance and
soul-soothing sounds you won't want to miss.
An Evening with Eliza Rickman
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11 years ago
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Baby Eggplants: The Cute Factor
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The other day at Sprouts, a local grocery store, a woman saw me selecting
baby eggplant.
She asked, "Do you like those?"
"Oh, I adore them," I said. "Th...
11 years ago
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A Paupered Chef Update
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[image: nick and blake]
As many of you have noticed, it's been quite a while since we posted on the
site. For that—and mostly for the lack of any news—we...
11 years ago
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Tiramisu Limoncello
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Tiramisu is a heavenly dessert that isn;t that difficult to make. This
version with limoncello is refreshing even though rich after a meal.
In a pot com...
13 years ago
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Bar Crudo
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[image: Bar Crudo]
Once upon a time Bar Crudo was nestled in a tiny nook on San Francisco's
Bush Street. Getting a seat at the small bar felt like winning ...
14 years ago
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Funghi Porcini Fritti - Fried Porcini
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We're going to casually slink past the fact that I haven't written in over
a year and launch right into a shiny new recipe! Not only that, this isn't
just ...
14 years ago
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Can You Save $1000 In 30 Days?
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That's the challenge going on from I Will Teach You To Be Rich. Each day in
November will have another tip to save money by cutting back on
consumption. Ev...
15 years ago
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