More delish food

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Peeps, our meals of late have reminded me that maligning winter produce is quick-tongued. The panoply of citrus alone, a bounty of multi-hued jewels, could sustain the pickiest eater for a month. And, forget scurvy! Much can and should be done with these delicious treats. My salads of last night and this evening were made that much better because of their additions of orange: last night the Minneola; tonight the blood orange.

I figured my Italians would be yearning for some pasta by now so made my Brussels sprouts, shallot and speck with long noodles (mafaldine this time) which is always lovely!!

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This afternoon, the boys and I watched the first third of Raiders of the Lost Ark. What a fun, adventurous film. Harrison Ford was so ruggedly dashing, and within ten minutes of the opening scene, Jack had donned all clothes that could possibly resemble Indy's and fashioned a whip from Zoobs. I love that kid's creative bent. A costume always makes things more real, a belief he and Oliver subscribe to completely. Here is young Indy, sans hat and chest strap, attempting to put excitement behind him so as to do homework.

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Isn't he handsome?! Look at that tussled hair and rosy lips, eyebrows and lashes any woman would kill for.

Delicious meal for a chilly night

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Everything about last night's dinner felt cozy and good: rosemary-rubbed salmon, roasted until just done; the piquillo-pimenton potatoes I'm still working to perfect; and a beautiful winter salad of minneola tangerine, butter lettuce, shaved fennel, candied pecans, blue cheese and a champagne-honey vinaigrette.

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Hilarious but also serious article about cicerchia

Ok, y'all, I really loved those damn beans last night and, thus, was bummed to read this article (although it's hilarious, laugh-out-loud in parts, too! Bravo, Hank Shaw!) which informed me that the cicerchia beans, aka chickling vetch, fava chickpea and flat pea, contain a neurotoxin. If you eat these lovelies every day, you can get sick, real sick. Good thing they're hard to find, I guess.