Home on the Range

Home on the Range: A Big Bowl of Lentils

by Melissa Pasanen on August 11, 2020 at 10:28AM

While the pot simmers, you whisk together a dressing of good vinegar and olive oil with a touch of honey, paprika and salt to pour over the hot, drained lentils. They drink up the dressing eagerly, as most of us would.

Home on the Range: Blueberry Shortbread Bars

by Melissa Pasanen on August 4, 2020 at 6:20PM

Enter one of the simplest baked summer berry recipes in my arsenal. The original recipe comes from a friend who I watched pull it together in about 10 minutes about a decade ago at her family's summer place.

Home on the Range: Chopped Taco Salad

by Melissa Pasanen on July 27, 2020 at 6:20PM

The recipe from thekitchn.com, upon which I loosely based this taco salad, calls for frying strips of corn tortillas. That seemed completely unnecessary, what with babies and heat waves. Crumbled tortilla chips for Conor, and Fritos in my case, did just fine.

Home on the Range: Drink Your Vegetables

by Melissa Pasanen on July 3, 2020 at 8:00AM

They do each benefit from a bit of time in the fridge but are also delicious sipped right out of the blender. (Not that anyone would do that.)

Home on the Range: Strawberry-Rhubarb Crisp

by Melissa Pasanen on June 22, 2020 at 9:55AM

This recipe for strawberry-rhubarb crisp is one of those that I've scrawled, published and printed out for more than a dozen friends and family members over the years. In October, 2014, Barb was making an apple crisp.

Home on the Range: Gone Fishin' With Vermont Wild Kitchen

by Jordan Barry on June 16, 2020 at 4:30PM

If you've had a successful fishing trip (or trip to the grocery store's fish department) and are looking for another recipe, Seven Days writer Melissa Pasanen has your back. In her recently released The Little Local Vermont Cookbook: Recipes for Classic Dishes, Pasanen heads to the state's "fresh, cold-running streams" for one of spring's "natural pairings": wild watercress and brook trout.

Home on the Range: Shrimp With Tomatoes and White Beans

by Melissa Pasanen on June 8, 2020 at 8:48AM

In April, I drove to Charlotte and picked up a couple pounds of sweet, juicy, shell-on locavore shrimp. When I used some in my standby recipe, I left the shells and heads on to save time and get it on the table fast.

Home on the Range: Radish-Top Pesto

by Jordan Barry on June 5, 2020 at 9:00AM

This is a flexible — and storable — recipe. It would work as a pasta sauce or in a potato salad.

Home on the Range: Sheet Pan Roast Chicken

by Melissa Pasanen on May 26, 2020 at 3:24PM

Sheet Pan Roasted Chicken with Vegetables Serves 4

Home on the Range: Magical Cocoabean Cupcakes

by Melissa Pasanen on May 18, 2020 at 10:29AM

I've since made the recipe as both cupcakes and as a whole cake for birthdays, team dinners and graduations; for preschoolers, teenagers and octogenarians. It is beloved by all, and I think only one person has ever guessed the secret ingredient on their first try. (No, I'm not going to tell you, but the recipe is below!)

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