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What's For Dinner? Sausage and Mushroom Pizza

I love pizza night. It always falls after a long day, when we have lots of little things in the fridge that need finishing. I don't mean leftovers, I mean scraps - little bits of onion, tomatoes, cheese - stuff too big to just throw away, but not big enough to use on its own. That's when we pull out the pizza dough.

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Homemade Spinach Gnocchi in Sage Brown Butter Sauce

A few months back, both Gourmet (RIP) and Saveur featured simple homemade gnocchi recipes - and I got the bug to try this for dinner one night. We're big fans of making our own pasta, probably because kneading the dough is so therapeutic. But gnocchi is a little different - it's not like I can run it through a pasta machine or anything. Pillowy soft requires a different touch.

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Indian Food from Vij's Cookbook

Okay, I'll admit - this meal was a bit over-the-top for two people, but just back from Vancouver we were inspired by all of the great food we'd eaten. We found Vikram Vij's cookbook at the Seattle Public Library and made an evening of it - I think we started at 3 in the afternoon and ate around 10pm.

Due to the complexity and number of recipes, I'm not including them in this post - you'll just have to buy or checkout the book yourself. But I will tell you what we made that evening so you have some idea what happened...

We made:
Homemade paneer
Ghee

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Garden Survey: June 2007 (Part 1)

It was a busy weekend of cleaning up the garden. This is what it looked like at the beginning of the weekend - we had lettuce growing like crazy, mizuna, spinach and chard bolting, and arugula on its last legs. Check out our lazy dog on the lawn!

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