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Whole Chicken in a Slow Cooker

  The aroma of roast chicken evokes Sunday dinners at Grandma’s. Crisp, golden skin, juicy meat, tender vegetables flavored with drippings, bones simmered into golden stock, and leftovers. The frugality of a whole chicken allows me to purchase a really good chicken. And with something so simple as roasted chicken, well-pedigreed poultry makes a difference.  If […]

Lemon Cream Cookies

Should I be writing to you about celeriac? Or maybe some nice sprouted grain? Nah, you’re all at the gym anyway. For those of you who have already fallen off the New Year’s resolution bandwagon, for those of you who never got on, and for those of you whose New Year’s resolution is to eat […]

Top Ten Tallgrass Kitchen Posts of 2011

Happy New Year! 2012–it sounds so  ridiculously futuristic, yet here we are. I thought I’d kick off the new year with a little retrospective. Last year was my second year of blogging and the number of you fair folks visiting more than doubled–thank you! Looking over the year’s most popular posts, I can say that you […]

Chocolate Peppermint Thumbprint Cookies

Aren’t these cute? If you still need a little cookie to round out your holiday platter, these chocolate gems have a whisper of peppermint and a nice crunch of sugar. And did I mention they’re adorable?

Cranberry Almond Coffee Cake

The milking maids are exhausted, the leaping lords have shin splints, and the partridge has flown the pear tree. Christmas is almost here! My apologies for the total lack of cookie posts! I had grand visions, but some 2012 writing projects (stay tuned) have taken precedence. But the butter is softening on the counter right […]