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Hiking the Potato State: Iron Creek Trail to Sawtooth Lake

September 17, 2010
Dick Sandhaus

I've had potatoes on my mind since I used the season's first fresh ones for that killer potato salad. Which recalled a killer hike in Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains, a 10-mile roundtrip trail that goes up 2,000 feet and burns about 2,000 calories. About 15 big potatoes.

Apple-a-Day: Stuff with cheddar. Bake.

September 16, 2010
Dick Sandhaus

I'm baking a cheddar-stuffed apple. Like me, you probably think of baked apples as sweet things, maybe with cream poured all over it. But try this for lunch or brunch or breakfast some day. Spread it on a slice of whole wheat toast. Yum.

Ripe Now: Potatoes. Potatoes? Ripe? Yup.

September 15, 2010
Dick Sandhaus

Until I had my first truly farm-fresh, just-dug potatoes last fall, I didn't realize how flavorful and creamy a potato could be. I mean straight. No cream, no milk, no butter, no mayonnaise. Just the potato. Until I made my own potato salad with them, I never had the perfect potato salad. This is it.

A Fig Pizza Tree Grows in Brooklyn

September 14, 2010
Dick Sandhaus

A beautiful, aromatic and wildly yummy pizza inspired by a gift of homemade fig jam. A deliriously delicious brunch for two - for less than two dollars. I'd eat this for breakfast, lunch or dessert any day.

Better Cheaper Stronger: Biceps Curl

September 13, 2010
Dick Sandhaus

Our Upper Body Strength Training program begins with this exercise because it's familiar and easy. Full disclosure: Better Cheaper Stronger means you get stronger. Not like Arnold. Just stronger than you are now. So that you can do a lot of things more easily and comfortably.

Slower Sunday: When the fog lifts the Maine coast looks like this.

September 12, 2010
Dick Sandhaus

The coast of Maine looks like this. Sun's up, but not clearly. A slow, careful walk on the rocks while the fog burns off. The last day of vacation. Every minute counts. Take a break. Press Play for a really short vacation.

A good egg

September 11, 2010
Dick Sandhaus

Better Cheaper: pay a little more per egg, eliminate the hospitalization costs. Here's a great dish I made with remarkably flavorful organic spinach from my CSA farm share and beautiful eggs from the Farmers Market.

Take the stairs. And calcium.

September 10, 2010
Dick Sandhaus

You have to see and climb Dorr Mountain's East Face Trail to believe it. Thousands of stairs carved into the mountain's solid granite. Straight staircases. Switchback staircases. Spiral staircases. Steep ones. Build strong bones.

Grate Stuff: Chicken Salad & Squash Slaw

September 9, 2010
Dick Sandhaus

My grater's a great thing - not just for cheese anymore. Here's a $5, 15-minute dinner for two that's beautiful, fresh, deeply flavorful and satisfying. That's 15 minutes to prepare it. You eat it very slowly. With deep appreciation.

Ripe Now: Carrots and Plums for the Jewish New Year

September 8, 2010
Dick Sandhaus

Yesterday's CSA Farm Share included the first carrots of the season. Not to mention apples, pears and plums. So it must be time to make tsimmes, a root vegetable and fruit stew that's a traditional dish during the Jewish New Year.