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I’ve written in my newsletter about how I’ve been cooking with beans a lot. (If you missed it, subscribe for free on my website!) But I upped my game recently with some advice from a friend: I ordered heirloom dried beans from @rancho_gordo. The best thing in the bowl tonight? The beans. (Recipe: Penelope Wisner’s…
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Matthew Hansen: On the joys of dining outside in a pandemic summer
Sarah and I haven’t wined and dined inside a restaurant or bar since COVID rudely interrupted life’s regularly scheduled programming in March. Five months feels like five decades. We miss cozying up to our favorite back table at Dante and splitting the Cortona pizza and the Bolognese. We miss sidling up to the sushi bar…
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Baker-Hansen date night last night thanks to the new weekend price fix offerings @jgilbertsomaha: diners get to choose from beef or salmon and the deal comes with an order of crab cakes and an insane, giant dessert (️ to see a massive piece of carrot cake.) Cruise on over to their page for all the…
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Takeout Chronicles: Dripped + Draped
If you, like me, spend a lot of time on Instagram, you’ve probably seen the irresistible ‘grams of the inside of Dripped + Draped, the newest coffee shop in Benson. The shop has no shortage of personality: a faux grass, floral and neon wall piece; pink paint; a rainbow of pastel coffee drinks made with…
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It’s the summer of fermentation: Next up, kimchi
It started with sourdough starter. Then kombucha. Now? Kimchi. For whatever reason I’ve really gotten into fermentation this summer. I like to watch things grow — the thickness of my scoby in my jars of kombucha tea, my springy starter that inflates and deflates overnight before I make bread. Kimchi actually was a special request…
